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Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts (www.theverge.com)
Starring the Computer (starringthecomputer.com)
Shadow Blister Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
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Trust and Risk (Giddens and Luhmann) (dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com)
Europe's AI crackdown looks doomed to be felled by Silicon Valley lobbying power (www.theguardian.com)
Spotify to cut 17% of staff in cost-cutting measure (www.dw.com)
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Machine Reasoning: The forgotten side of AI (btmc.substack.com)
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Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs (www.bbc.com)
New algorithm finds lots of gene-editing enzymes in environmental DNA (arstechnica.com)
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Spotify to cut 1,500 employees in third layoff this year (www.reuters.com)
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A better ls in a 100 lines of Rust (www.bekk.christmas)
Who Controls Technology? (Daily Philosophy Newsletter #291) (dailyphilosophy.substack.com)
Acoustic Cybersecurity: Exploiting Voice-Activated Systems (arxiv.org)
Venezuela voters approve claim to oil-rich swath of Guyana (www.ft.com)
A Spooky Performance Regression in AWS EBS Volumes (www.dolthub.com)
Fixing visual exploration of real world databases (azimutt.app)
Spotify Will Cut Headcount by 17% to Confront Slower Growth (www.bloomberg.com)
Meta says China is stepping up its online social media influence operations (www.npr.org)
How the Networks (Barely) Survived the Fall TV Season (www.vulture.com)
A Decade of Have I Been Pwned (www.troyhunt.com)
Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on climate change (yaleclimateconnections.org)
macOS Sonoma is setting records for update size (eclecticlight.co)
How to Not Use Secrets (github.com)
Hashmarks: Privacy-Preserving Benchmarks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation (arxiv.org)
Kramdown-man: A Kramdown convert for converting Markdown files into man pages (github.com)
Guardian: The unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros (www.theguardian.com)
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Nobuild: Header only library for writing build recipes in C (github.com)
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Overview Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the company (newsroom.spotify.com)
OpenAI Assistant Use Case: Proofreading Bot in Slack (plugbear.io)
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Java Object Layout (JOL) Tool (github.com)
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GPU Desktop Calculator (github.com)
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GTA 6 Leaks May Have Come from Rockstar Employee's Kid: Report (www.businessinsider.com)
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The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make (www.bbc.com)
Thirteen tools to build your MVP and validate your idea FAST (www.heymarketcurve.com)
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Expr moved to expr-lang/expr (github.com)
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Bitcoin now in the top 10 of most valuable assets, replaces Berkshire Hathaway (8marketcap.com)
Amazon's thin client: Wrong idea, wrong time. Here's why (om.co)
A Brief 200-Year History of Synesthesia (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
New ways to find just what you need on Search (blog.google)
Speculative Sampling on LLM (jaykmody.com)
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ChatGPT Plugin trained on scientific papers: SciSpace's ResearchGPT (chat.openai.com)
International Day Against DRM (IDAD) – Save the Libraries – December 8, 2023 (www.defectivebydesign.org)
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As Nepali villages modernize, mokha art is on the verge of disappearing (globalvoices.org)
Hertz Misses Profit Estimate as Tesla Price Cuts Hit Fleet Value (www.bloomberg.com)
That's Far-Out, Man (blog.dfsec.com)
Capturing DNA in snow tracks of polar bear, Eurasian lynx and snow leopard (www.frontiersin.org)
VSCode LLVM Compiler Explorer (github.com)
1962 Military Innstructional Video on Magnetic Cores (www.youtube.com)
The Race to Save Ketchup: Building a Tomato for a Hotter World (www.wsj.com)
Paper vs. Devices: Brain Activation Differences During Memory Retrieval (www.frontiersin.org)
Pragmatic Versioning – An Alternative to Semver (github.com)
A minimum complete tutorial of Linux ext4 file system (2017) (metebalci.com)
The Ease Factor Problem (2018) (web.archive.org)
When Does US Federal Debt Reach an Unsustainable Level? (mishtalk.com)
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Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night (english.elpais.com)
Physicists may have found a limit on the performance of large quantum computers (www.sciencealert.com)
The Web's Grain (2015) (frankchimero.com)
Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy (www.kirkusreviews.com)
How to (Succeed) in Technology Cross-Functional Teams (medium.com)
Stripe Press has the full, unformatted text of Poor Charlie's Almanack online (www.stripe.press)
Laptops Powered by AA Batteries (lunduke.locals.com)
Plants may be absorbing 20% more CO2 than we thought, new models find (newatlas.com)
Typehero: All you need to become a TypeScript menace (typehero.dev)
D Programming Language (dlang.org)
AnimateAnyone team "actively working on preparing the code for public release" (github.com)
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Mechanical keyboard has a headphone jack you might want to use (www.theverge.com)
Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports (www.theregister.com)
Gemini Postponed, "in some respects" as good as GPT-4 (old.reddit.com)
Self Operating Computer Framework (github.com)
Meta: "Big breakthrough last night. Excited to share our work with you soon." (twitter.com)
Is China Much Richer Than We Thought? [video] (www.youtube.com)
MP3: How MP3 Was Invented, by Fraunhofer IIS (www.mp3-history.com)
2023 Fed Findings from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice (www.frbsf.org)
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich: debunking trickle-down economics (www.lse.ac.uk)
Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics (plato.stanford.edu)
Huge hydrothermal vent field–50-foot tall chimneys–found near underwater volcano (www.livescience.com)
The quality of your life is the quality of the people you get to know (jakeseliger.com)
Where Do Non-Primitive Recursive Functions Come Up Naturally? (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
Synplant 2 Lets You Create Synth Patches from Samples Using AI (www.synthtopia.com)
Take the State of JavaScript 2023 survey (survey.devographics.com)
The Mysterious Disappearance of Clyde AI (subo.ai)
Tyrian purple: The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold (www.bbc.com)
A Few Words About Blameless Culture – By Michael Hart – Oct, 2023 (www.gybe.ca)
Making Peace with Simpson's Paradox (robertheaton.com)
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Cracking Playfair Ciphers (www.oranlooney.com)
Alaska Air to acquire Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9B (www.seattletimes.com)
Arc: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [pdf] (www.usenix.org)
Meta's AI chief doesn't think AI super intelligence is coming anytime soon (www.cnbc.com)
A suite of AI language translation models that improve streaming (ai.meta.com)
Confronting America's crisis in trust (www.hoover.org)
Tesla Employees in Sweden Disappointed by If Metall Union (driveteslacanada.ca)
A case for moving away from the cloud and embracing local storage solutions (blog.golivecosmos.com)
Allianz suing Revolut after alleged contract breach (fintechmagazine.com)
Hacking AirPlay into Sonos (medium.com)
Download Valley (en.wikipedia.org)
The Principality of Gilaïe (gido-vke.github.io)
The Storm Brewing Inside Elon Musk's Mind Gets Out (www.wsj.com)
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (www.youtube.com)
Man Charged with Manslaughter After Police Officer Has Heart Attack After Arrest (www.jacksonville.com)
Study: Students would be willing to pay $28 to have peers deactivate TikTok (bfi.uchicago.edu)
Real Python: Build Conway's Game of Life with Python (realpython.com)
Cancer Warning over Soy Sauces (www.theguardian.com)
ChatGPT's Wild Year (www.theatlantic.com)
How to Build a Better Social Network (every.to)
Writing a file system from scratch in Rust (blog.carlosgaldino.com)
Lisa Kaltenegger on the search for life on other planets (www.rnz.co.nz)
Deepfashion: Fashion style advice AI with real lookbook (deepfashion.us)
A computer in her brain changed her life. Then she was forced to get it removed (www.miamiherald.com)
Bitcoin breaks $40k amid golds all-time high (tftc.io)
At least 15 Starship launches needed to execute Artemis III lunar landing (spacepolicyonline.com)
What If Someone Steals GPT-4? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Haaretz debunking Israeli horror stories (twitter.com)
Toolchain security features status update [pdf] (outflux.net)
Can't use my real name on Facebook; thinks I'm trying to make a page about the (old.reddit.com)
Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Taking Shape on Hydropower Plant (cleantechnica.com)
Fermentation technology as a driver of human brain expansion (www.nature.com)
A microframework for modular monoliths and loosely coupled apps (github.com)
Uninhibited campaign donations risks creating oligarchy (www.promarket.org)
30 years after its first repair mission, Hubble continues to observe the cosmos (www.nasaspaceflight.com)
Global Privacy Control – Take Control of Your Privacy (globalprivacycontrol.org)
Labor shortage is pitting parents and childfree coworkers against each other (www.businessinsider.com)
37signals Once Product Announcement (world.hey.com)
Music compensates for altered gene expression in age-related cognitive disorders (www.nature.com)
Massachusetts workforce shortages here to stay as Baby Boomers retire (www.capecodtimes.com)
Wearable biosensor measures fertility hormones in sweat (www.nature.com)
Library of Babel (libraryofbabel.info)
Elon Musk Tried to Sell Tesla to Apple (finance.yahoo.com)
Philippines accuses China of swarming reef in South China Sea (www.bbc.com)
Straightforward list of protocols offering airdrops (shitcoinalpha.com)
Stuxnet Source Code (github.com)
The Trick to Going Faster in Software Development Is to Take Smaller Steps (medium.com)
Social determinants/clinicians' expectations affect autism diagnoses in girls (www.sciencedirect.com)
Alaska Airlines to Acquire Hawaiian Airlines (news.alaskaair.com)
Will this be the last Christmas you can get an Apple Watch? (thehustle.co)
Alaska Air plans to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9B deal (apnews.com)
Hacking is not only for Technology Elites (magnetseven.substack.com)
ChatGPT one year on: who is using it, how and why? (www.nature.com)
Nominatim (nominatim.openstreetmap.org)
Gulf of Tonkin Incident (en.wikipedia.org)
The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
Convert PDF to Google forms using gpt-4-vision (twitter.com)
Personality Traits: A Surprising Factor in Dementia Risk (neurosciencenews.com)
Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines to Combine (localcareglobalreach.com)
Build Stupid Tools (blog.stulta.dev)
Goods Deflation Is Back. It Could Speed Inflation's Return to 2% (www.wsj.com)
On Piracy and DRM (chuck.is)
Knowledge Graphs enable LLMs to understand (medium.com)
Crossness Pumping Station (en.wikipedia.org)
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Alaska Air Agrees to Buy Hawaiian in $1.9B Deal (www.bloomberg.com)
Apple's Ideal Credit Card Partner to Replace Goldman Sachs Is Chase (www.bloomberg.com)
US Visual Approaches: Lessons from the LH458 Incident (ops.group)
'The invisible megaphone' of mainstream TV (shunyaekam.com)
MakeMake: Generate make files from C source code (github.com)
Make JSON Greppable (github.com)
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Zoom stealth-dropped an Apple TV version of its meetings app (www.theverge.com)
Kick, an Upstart Streaming Competitor to Twitch (www.nytimes.com)
Is Ruby easier than Python? (old.reddit.com)
Apollo 13 accident: understanding Houston's real time debug [video] (www.youtube.com)
Unique solutions for unique problems: 3D printing at home (www.toypiper.com)
Milei Plans Labor, Tax Reform in 'Shock' Package, La Nacion Says (www.bloomberg.com)
The Placeholder Girlfriend (parhelia.conorbarnes.com)
Computational Mechanics (2001) [pdf] (bactra.org)
Learning Jai via Advent of Code (www.forrestthewoods.com)
Nvidia's China Business Is Important to US Geopolitical Positioning (interconnect.substack.com)
MicroVM Management Software (cubewave.dev)
Researchers figure out how to bypass the fingerprint readers in most Windows PCs (arstechnica.com)
Turn any Git directory into a SQLite DB and make your own Spotify Wrapped (twitter.com)
Could dinosaurs have shaped ageing in present-day mammals? (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Tesla Cybertruck on Top Gear (www.youtube.com)
Samsung's End-of-Cycle Laundry Machine Song Has a Surprising Backstory (www.hunker.com)
Harpoon V: New Version of Famous Wargame Used by Navies (www.forbes.com)
Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmark (www.tomshardware.com)
Lobsters – Hacker News (lobste.rs)
VineJS – High performance validation library for node (github.com)
What sea level rise will look like in cities that have hosted climate summits (www.cnn.com)
Profiles of Change: For 7 Women, a Heartfelt Cause Became a Mission (www.nytimes.com)
Mark Zuckerberg emails Anthony Fauci (2020) (twitter.com)
Small-batch EVs and plenty of robots–Hyundai's new innovation center (arstechnica.com)
Cats' dazzling eye colors may come from 1 unusual ancestor (www.livescience.com)
National Parking Platform (npp-uk.org)
Components database for KiCAD (github.com)
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People are Different: Blank slatism is holding people back (eriktorenberg.substack.com)
Y Combinator's Future in the Software Slowdown (brief.bismarckanalysis.com)
Neptune Networks – a router platform for BGP hobbyists (neptunenetworks.org)
Chinese Startup Just Landed a Rocket Vertically [video] (www.youtube.com)
Alaska Air to buy Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9B (www.cnn.com)
Margaret Hamilton (Software Engineer) (en.wikipedia.org)
Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI (www.oneusefulthing.org)
How a Canadian company became the world's best acquirer of tech firms (www.economist.com)
NASA-SP-287: What made Apollo a success? (ntrs.nasa.gov)
Teachers keep saying kids cannot read. Is the situation that bad? [video] (old.reddit.com)
Pantheon (TV series about uploaded intelligence) (www.imdb.com)
Album about iOS/macOS engineering (music.apple.com)
On Political War (1989) [pdf] (apps.dtic.mil)
What We Mean When We Say "Software Engineer" (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
You're Not Imagining It: Cell Phone Reception Is Getting Worse (time.com)
Horizon is a free EDA package (github.com)
How Isaac Asimov Predicted the OpenAI Drama (newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)
RisingTone: A better way to learn Chinese tones (joyfulmantis.github.io)
Senators urge Biden to restrict travel to China amid child pneumonia outbreak [pdf] (www.rubio.senate.gov)
Large Text Compression Benchmark (2023) (mattmahoney.net)
Welcome to a Golden Age for Workers (www.economist.com)
Arm Launches the Cortex-M52 for IoT; Its Smallest Processor with Helium (fuse.wikichip.org)
Polishing Forks (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
Healthy BMI cutoff for Asian Indians is 23.0 (not 25.0) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Why does sleep becomes more elusive as we age? Shifts in "sleep architecture" (www.salon.com)
Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology, Nature, Scope, and Solutions (link.springer.com)
Hedy – a programming language created by a CS teacher to teach kids coding (console.substack.com)
Environmental DNA (en.wikipedia.org)
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish (en.wikipedia.org)
Why American MDs are unionizing (www.nytimes.com)
Toward a Global Monolith (yottascale.substack.com)
Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity (blitiri.com.ar)
GiveDirectly – Send money directly to people who need it most (www.givedirectly.org)
Italy did an accidental experiment on the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot (arxiv.org)
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Simulator (github.com)
Scrapscript: Content-Addressable Chunks of Code (scrapscript.org)
Mastodon Most Followed (most-followed-masotodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com)
American Librarians Helped Defeat the Nazis (daily.jstor.org)
Bank Under Stress: The European Central Bank Stress Test Exercice (papers.ssrn.com)
The myth of the online community (2012) (dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com)
Northvolt has launched a commercial sodium-ion battery for static energy storage (www.chemistryworld.com)
Pi Clusters Aren't Dumb (www.jeffgeerling.com)
DIY Home EV Charger (jamesfotherby.com)
Simplifying Complexity: The Journey from WebSockets to HTTP Streams (blog.owulveryck.info)
Lithium–Silicon Battery (en.wikipedia.org)
Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by tech giants (www.politico.com)
Scientists finally figure out how tardigrades mate (www.livescience.com)
EVE Online players are creating the first empire guided by Chat GPT-4 (www.techradar.com)
Big Tech Is Exploiting the Mental Health Crisis to Monetize Your Data (jacobin.com)
The first CRISPR cure might kickstart the next big patent battle (www.technologyreview.com)
Defense Officials Report Progress on Replicator Initiative (www.defense.gov)
VueScan Supporter Program (www.hamrick.com)
Profit, Power, and Purpose – Rethinking the Modern Corporation (hedgehogreview.com)
Believe it or not, the US has no pedestrian impact regulations (twitter.com)
Margaret Hamilton,lead software engineer of Apollo Project,code wrote by hand (twitter.com)
An Engineer's Battle Against Knowledge Loss (blog.allegro.tech)
TSMixer: Time Series Mixer for Forecasting (github.com)
ScreamingFist: A JIT Framework for GNU Guile (gitlab.com)
US moves to choke China's role in electric vehicle supply chain (www.ft.com)
IBM Offers Quantum Error Suppression Out of the Box (spectrum.ieee.org)
What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University (www.theatlantic.com)
ERs are now swamped with seriously ill patients (www.npr.org)
A blind mole thought since 1936 to be extinct was recently rediscovered (www.washingtonpost.com)
The Evolution of Data, AI, and Security in Tech with Tomasz Tunguz [audio] (www.devseccon.com)
Medicare Advantage Popular with Seniors – But Not Hospitals and Doctors (kffhealthnews.org)
Pentagon says a warship and commercial ships have come under attack (www.npr.org)
Mass Archive a List of URLs to the Internet Archive (liamswayne.github.io)
A 'goon squad' of deputies got away with years of brutality (mississippitoday.org)
'Return to Office' declared dead (www.theregister.com)
Steel – An embeddable and extensible scheme dialect built in Rust (github.com)
Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)
Chinese scientists reach milestone in revolutionary gene therapy for autism (www.scmp.com)
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18y Ago Today: Snakes & Rubies, Django+Rails Comparison by Adrian Holovaty & DHH (www.youtube.com)
Tesla: Security Vulnerabilities (www.cvedetails.com)
Use It or Lose It: Exercising one's right to waste water (2015) (projects.propublica.org)
Twin research indicates that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health (med.stanford.edu)
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The Fairytale Narrative: Structured strategic planning (longform.asmartbear.com)
Daniel Langlois, founder of Softimage, found dead in Dominica (www.cbc.ca)
Reinforcement Learning Explained (twitter.com)
HTML, the Programming Language (html-lang.org)
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Mechanochemistry could revolutionize the creation of new materials (bigthink.com)
Run 70B LLM Inference on a Single 4GB GPU with This New Technique (ai.gopubby.com)
Pushover Turns 10 (2022) (blog.pushover.net)
Nostalgia in politics: how (and why) parties appeal to the past (phys.org)