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by btown 2y ago
I think there's a new and healthy rivalry between Ruby, Python, and JS for web backends! - Ruby and Rails now has all of the things mentioned above and more. I do have concerns that Rails will evolve in directions where bundled fronten
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Discussion on the Cloudflare announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41730415
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> specify the correct parts, in the correct order, and use the parts to good purpose While the attention-based mechanisms of the current generation of LLMs still have a long way to go (and may not be the correct architecture) to achieve
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There's an entire OTT sub-industry for video hosting and out-of-the-box monetization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-top_media_service For instance, https://vimeo.com/ott is an effective (
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Now that's what I call burying the lead!
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Huh, didn't know that! Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin#Formation:_1966%E... : > One account of how the new band's name was chosen held that Moon and Entwistle had suggested that a supergroup
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by btown 2y ago
Per the article, uBlock Origin is still in the Firefox store at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... ; it's the lighter MV3-based uBlock Origin Lite that was removed. So the ge
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Someone out there with raw access to the underlying graph data for Google Maps plotting a Hilbert curve through San Francisco.
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Since the audio is sent to the creator’s server first, they could call Shazam from any number of rotating IPs. It’s a pretty future-proof design!
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The headline of this is a bit counterintuitive: many people, when they see the word "fracture," might imagine an ecosystem in which different offerings can coexist. Someone not reading the full article might even think this implie
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Per the change log in https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/p... the bracketed language below, providing for exceptions for newsworthiness, was removed from Meta’s policy on June 27, 2024. &gt
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I've often thought that, looking historically, Notion only exists because product innovation in Google Docs is decoupled from revenue growth for Google Workspace. Putting a draggable handle, at the user's election, alongside every
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gevent is exactly this! http://www.gevent.org/ My startup has been using it in production for years. It excels at I/O bound workflows where you have highly concurrent real-time usage of slow/unpredictable partner
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This seems to be a holy grail, to be honest! Super-simple database representations with barely any processing required on the "write path," instant startup, minimal memory requirements on both server and client without a need for
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Part of the value proposition of Wordpress is that it doesn't depend on a single developer or team having decades of deep knowledge of a system like Umbraco; any number of contractors can be parachuted in, at least in theory, to take o
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For sure, and sending hug-ops to teams like yours that have to deploy & enforce mass patches! But I'm also thinking of environments that don't even have the benefit of a team like yours. https://issuetracker.google.
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If you're vulnerable to attacks from the LAN, you're vulnerable to your wi-fi router (or your coffee shop/workplace's router) being compromised, which is quite common; see e.g. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com
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I wonder if there's research being done on training LLMs with extended data in analogy to the "kernel trick" for SVMs: the same way one might feed (x, x^2, x^3) rather than just x, and thus make a linear model able to reason
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My understanding is that Haystack's mission is to explore this design space more fully than others have before, so I think they're making the right decision to be audacious here!
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VS Code extensions are pretty limited - you can override the renderer for an editor tab, but if you want multiple things within a custom interface to be treated as first-class editor tabs by the larger environment (and by the larger extensi
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This is really, really cool! On the licensing side, though: > We’ve made the decision to make the editor source-available so that folks can make contributions and so that they can examine the code to make sure they can trust it. This is
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(Note for those who might miss the nuance in a quick skim: the former CEO described in this article is no longer at the company.)
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"You need to think of [Megan] Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't
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IMO this is one of the most important skills for a developer to have. In an age of Github Copilot and similar systems, it's both far more viable (because, per OP's #1, you won't get distracted by the "side quests" o
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Vedal987 should work with LinkedIn to get access to this data, fine-tune Evil Neuro on LinkedIn posts, then have her read through business school case studies and offer advice. It would be content so unhinged, it would remove the need for m
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Are there any good solutions for reliably rolling out an pre-review/unreviewed Chrome extension to a team (other than controlling all their users' Chrome profiles with an enterprise deployment)? I found https://docs.pla
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This was going to be the compromise that would allow Chrome to have a path towards deprecating third-party cookies without massively decreasing its ad revenue, but they've walked away even from that: https://privacysandbox.c
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I think this speaks to a larger problem that likely exists in every company: certainly someone at Apple had written a library function to do this safely, but how do you enforce that that function is used, rather than reimplemented unsafely
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Presence may be necessary, but researcher-driven weighting of different sources of content can still introduce bias. For instance, [0] suggests (sources are unclear) that OpenAI boosted by 5x the weight of their WebText2 dataset, which cons
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The saving grace of JS is that the ecosystem had a reset when React came out; there's plenty of horrifying JQuery code littering the StackOverflow (and Experts Exchange!) landscape, but by the time React came around, Backbone and other

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