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3D-printing can reproduce multi-million-dollar masterpieces, stroke by stroke(cnn.com)
13 points by krn 3y ago|2 comments
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by krn 3y ago
> I'd never have guessed the vim author would get close to the apple founder. We would need to see the "inflation adjusted" numbers here, because Hacker News has certainly had a lot of growth since 2011.
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by krn 3y ago
The original (unfiltered) source, ordered by the number of upvotes: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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The workers quitting digital nomadism(bbc.com)
17 points by krn 3y ago|15 comments
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by krn 3y ago
Well, "AI tools" can have a pretty wide meaning. Isn't Grammarly[1] an "AI tool", for instance? [1] https://www.grammarly.com/
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by krn 3y ago
It seems that there is something very wrong with the entire Android privacy community, because fighting between different open-source projects in this space never stops. From the technical point of view, only Daniel Micay's GrapheneOS
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by krn 3y ago
> When a custom ROM, even a "degoogled" one, is made, you include a customized kernel and custom drivers, and the AGPS URLs are part of this "driver". Thanks, this should be the top comment. Both, Sony and Google, pro
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by krn 3y ago
I see Rust and Go as the best high-performance high-concurrency programming languages today, and choose between Rust and Go depending on the bottleneck (Rust – CPU / RAM, Go – I/O).
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by krn 3y ago
Rust and Go are very much alike, when Java is not an option because of the JVM startup time and memory requirements (GraalVM Native Image solves this, but at the expense of highly reduced performance).
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by krn 3y ago
Rust and Go were designed with concurrency and portability in mind – unlike Java (which requires the JVM), C#, D, Nim, Haskell, or OCaml.
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by krn 3y ago
Go becomes an answer when one is willing to trade the correctness of Rust for a garbage collector and a bullet-proof standard library.
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Cocaine-smuggling submarine reveals Europe's drug crisis(bbc.com)
30 points by krn 3y ago|1 comments
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by krn 3y ago
That's true, and Clojure (when used with metosin/malli) is probably the only reasonable alternative to statically typed programming languages in terms of long-term maintainability. Essentially, it's like two completely differ
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by krn 3y ago
I believe that many people from Ruby on Rails and Django communities moved on to Clojure, Elixir, and Kotlin. Others chose between Rust and Go, if performance was the most important thing. The thing about dynamically typed languages and the
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by krn 3y ago
That's probably true, because OpenAI was formed just two months after AlphaGo defeated the European Go champion Fan Hui. But Google has missed a lot of opportunities since then, and is now trying to catch up.
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by krn 3y ago
Microsoft has been an investor in OpenAI since 2019[1]. Now Samsung is considering replacing Google with Bing as the default search engine on all Galaxy phones[2]. I think that's a big accomplishment for OpenAI. And it's still and
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by krn 3y ago
And how does that compare with what OpenAI has accomplished since 2015? I'm not blaming DeepMind here. It was Google's job not to start loosing ground to Microsoft in the age of AI.
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by krn 3y ago
I am a big fan of Alphabet as a company, but this is how I read the first two paragraphs... > When Shane Legg and I launched DeepMind back in 2010, many people thought general AI was a farfetched science fiction technology that was decad
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by krn 3y ago
> Retailers wont take me because of my accomplished work history. Can't you just remove it from your CV then? I thought that CV is like personal marketing material: you only list things there that help you to get a specific job – an
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by krn 3y ago
> Well ok, but was EY less competent than McKinsey or did they just get unlucky that they're the poor bastards who stepped on the landmine? I have asked myself the same question, before I noticed that EY is basically the Credit Suis
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Ladies of Negotiable Affection (2011)(lettersfrommonaco.wordpress.com)
1 points by krn 3y ago|0 comments
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by krn 3y ago
If he was indeed the creator of Cash App, he could have been playing a part in the current SEC investigation: https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/ The report was released just 2 weeks ago.
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by krn 3y ago
There was an interesting comment exchange on FT.com a few hours ago[1]. One person wrote: > Lee’s former company, Block, is currently under investigation by the SEC after the app that he founded (Cash App) was alleged to have been facili
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The Russian Federal Guard Service officer who worked with Putin and fled Russia(dossier.center)
116 points by krn 3y ago|27 comments
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by krn 3y ago
The key part: > Toshin found Pinduoduo to have exploited about 50 Android system vulnerabilities. Most of the exploits were tailor made for customized parts known as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) code, which tends to be audit
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One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users(cnn.com)
24 points by krn 3y ago|14 comments
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Whistleblower: Spyware helps the mafia rule in Cyprus (2022)(euractiv.com)
7 points by krn 4y ago|0 comments
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Daniel Lewin(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by krn 4y ago|0 comments
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What are the disadvantages of using Cloudflare?(quora.com)
15 points by krn 4y ago|1 comments
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A Man Behind the Kremlin’s Control of the Russian Media (2019)(proekt.media)
5 points by krn 4y ago|0 comments

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