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A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2304.12210
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Self-supervised learning, dubbed the dark matter of intelligence, is a promising path to advance machine learning. Yet, much like cooking, training SSL methods is a delicate art with a high barrier to entry.arXiv.org
IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers
Link: wsj.com/articles/ikea-furnitur…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
With inflation squeezing consumers and material and shipping prices up, the company took products back to the drawing boardTrefor Moss (The Wall Street Journal)
LTESniffer: An open-source LTE downlink/uplink eavesdropper
[pdf]Link: syssec.kaist.ac.kr/pub/2023/wi…
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Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH
Link: cambus.net/fun-with-kermit-and…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM file transfers over SSH using Qodemwww.cambus.net
NitroKey disappoints me
Link: blog.brixit.nl/nitrokey-dissap…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Commercial lunar lander presumed lost after moon landing attempt
Link: cnn.com/2023/04/25/world/lunar…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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Google announces Q1 2023 earnings
[pdf]Link: abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/20…
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FSF Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software
Link: fsf.org/blogs/community/call-o…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Heavy particles don’t explain gravitational lensing oddities
Link: arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Detailed look at a lensed galaxy favors lighter particles called axions.Ars Technica
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Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?
Link: constructionphysics.substack.c…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years.Brian Potter (Construction Physics)
Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing
Link: theverge.com/2023/4/25/2369753…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Microsoft is investigating an issue with its Edge browser that is leaking the sites you visit to Bing. A new creator follow feature appears to have some privacy issues.Tom Warren (The Verge)
A non-technical explanation of deep learning
Link: parand.com/a-completely-non-te…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy
Link: nytimes.com/2023/04/23/busines…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The company, which failed to fully reckon with the rise of online shopping, said that store closing sales would begin on Wednesday.Jordyn Holman (The New York Times)
Harry Belafonte has died
Link: theguardian.com/music/2023/apr…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Chart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies of congestive heart failureBen Beaumont-Thomas (The Guardian)
QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B
Link: github.com/modal-labs/quillman
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Contribute to modal-labs/quillman development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
My thoughts on OCaml
Link: osa1.net/posts/2023-04-24-ocam…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
Link: resilience.org/stories/2023-04…
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Growth in oil and gas production ends immediately in Shell’s latest pathway for staying below 1.5C, new Carbon Brief analysis reveals.Resilience (Resilience.org)
Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’
Link: theguardian.com/society/2023/a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Study suggests antimicrobial used to promote livestock growth breeds bacteria more resistant to our natural defencesHannah Devlin (The Guardian)
Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI
Link: fedscoop.com/congress-gets-40-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The House of Representatives' digital service has already distributed the licenses among lawmakers' offices.Nihal Krishan (FedScoop)
Eww: Programmable Widgets for Linux
Link: github.com/elkowar/eww
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
ElKowars wacky widgets. Contribute to elkowar/eww development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales (2017)
Link: gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The European Commission paid €360,000 (about $428,000) for a study on how piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted music, books, video games, and movies.Jennings Brown (Gizmodo)
A command-line tool to easily kill processes running on a specified port
Link: github.com/jkfran/killport
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A command-line tool to easily kill processes running on a specified port. - GitHub - jkfran/killport: A command-line tool to easily kill processes running on a specified port.GitHub
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Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas
Link: wsj.com/articles/apple-watch-p…
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Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rulesAaron Tilley (The Wall Street Journal)
People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
Link: technologyreview.com/2023/04/2…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The workplace tool’s appeal extends far beyond organizing work projects. Many users find it’s just as useful for managing their free time.Rhiannon Williams (MIT Technology Review)
Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
Link: nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartph…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The Nature of Code
Link: natureofcode.com/
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GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
Link: gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/late…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Deep Neural Networks from Scratch in Zig
Link: monadmonkey.com/dnns-from-scra…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs
Link: rust-gcc.github.io/2023/04/24/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it.Philip Herron and Arthur Cohen
Wegen mangelnder Parteidisziplin wurde die Hamburger Grünen-Abegordnete Miriam Block bestraft. Sie verliert alle ihre Fraktionsämter.
Hamburger Grüne stimmt für NSU-Aufklärung: Block von Fraktionsämtern entbunden
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Capturing the Flag with GPT4
Link: micahflee.com/2023/04/capturin…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
To help you save time and boost productivity, we have compiled a list of the best AI-powered Chrome extensions. These extensions cover a variety of areas, including content discovery, browser history organization, bug reporting, transcribing, chatbot creation, and podcast listening. Here are some of our top picks:
Read more > Top 18 AI Chrome Extensions for Productivity and Time-Saving (April 2023)
Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite by using tiny, impaling spikes
Link: smithsonianmag.com/science-nat…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Researchers hope to design a new bedbug eradication method based upon a folk remedy of trapping the bloodsuckers as they creepRachel Nuwer (Smithsonian Magazine)
Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with PostgreSQL
Link: philbooth.me/blog/nine-ways-to…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Previously on Extreme Learning, I discussed all the ways I've broken production using healthchecks. In this post I'll do the same for PostgreSQL.philbooth.me
A mutual aid auto shop in Alabama
Link: lux-magazine.com/article/mutua…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Meet the rednecks running a mutual aid auto repair shop in Alabama.Lux Magazine
Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work
Link: commoncog.com/deming-paradox-o…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.Cedric Chin (Commoncog)
ONNX Runtime merges WebGPU backend
Link: github.com/microsoft/onnxrunti…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Description This change introduced the following new components into ONNX Runtime Web: JavaScript Execution Provider (JSEP) Asynchronized inferencing execution powered by Emscripten's Asyncify ...GitHub