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Virtual Computer Museum โ VNC into Archaic Windows Systems
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museum.trialanderror.tech
Welcome to the virtual Computer Museum Project
Virtual Computer Museum, based on apache guacamole, microsoft operating systems, VNC and RDP
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Let's Block It
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Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to Trillion-Parameters LLM
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arXiv.org
Blending Is All You Need: Cheaper, Better Alternative to...
In conversational AI research, there's a noticeable trend towards developing models with a larger number of parameters, exemplified by models like ChatGPT. While these expansive models tend to...
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93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%
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Axios
The rich now own a record share of stocks
The U.S. market is simultaneously at its most democratized โ and most unequal โ point on record.
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How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
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The Eclectic Light Company
How virtualisation came to Apple silicon Macs
From Hypervisor APIs in OS X 10.10 Yosemite in 2014, through early VirtIO kernel extensions in Mojave in 2018, and Arm hypervisor support in Big Sur.
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Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
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The Verge
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
Engineering and Assistant teams were impacted too
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Valve now allows the "vast majority" of AI-powered games on Steam
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Ars Technica
Valve now allows the โvast majorityโ of AI-powered games on Steam
New reporting system will enforce "guardrails" for "live-generated" AI content.
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Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
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Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
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Bloomberg.com
Hertz to Sell 20,000 EVs in Shift Back to Gas-Powered Cars
Hertz Global Holdings Inc. plans to sell a third of its US electric vehicle fleet and reinvest in gas-powered cars due to weak demand and high repair costs for its battery-powered options.
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Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 Fan Projects Shut Down by Valve Takedowns
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Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 Fan Projects Shut Down by Valve Takedowns - IGN
Fan projects Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 have shut down after Valve intervened in their development.
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Why Prince Changed His Name to an Symbol 30 Years Ago, and What Happened Next
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Variety
Why Prince Changed His Name to an Unpronounceable Symbol 30 Years Ago, and What Happened Next
Thirty years ago today, Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. Why did he do it, and what happened next? Therein lies a tale ...
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eBay agrees to $3M fine over couple's harassment case, civil suit continues
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Universal Hub
eBay agrees to $3 million fine for trying to destroy lives of Natick couple; couple's civil suit continues
California-based online swapping-post concern eBay has agreed to a $3 million fine for the terror campaign its executives and employees waged against a Natick couple who ran an online news site that published items the company didn't like, the US Attorney'sโฆ
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ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving
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GitHub
GitHub - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox:
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Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
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Ask HN: Are tech layoffs happening abroad?
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Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center
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SFGATE
Google lays off hundreds in Bay Area, shuts child care center
Google is laying off hundreds of Bay Area workers, including a few dozen teachers.
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Executives at eBay sent live spiders and cockroaches to critical bloggers
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BBC News
eBay pays $3m fine in blogger harassment case
Executives sent live spiders and cockroaches to a US couple who criticised the firm, court papers show.
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Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack
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Fosstodon
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Our status page is offline due to a DDoS now targetting Codeberg, who hosts our status page on third-party infrastructure for us. Will continue posting updates on Mastodon as they come.
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Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?
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Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing?
An explainer on how a mega-merger from the 1990s might have led to the downfall of Boeing.
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Designing bridge trusses with Pytorch autograd
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GitHub
GitHub - eschluntz/PytorchBridge: Designing bridge trusses with Pytorch autograd
Designing bridge trusses with Pytorch autograd. Contribute to eschluntz/PytorchBridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models
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arXiv.org
A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models -- Part I:...
Large language models like GPT-4 have achieved remarkable proficiency in a broad spectrum of language-based tasks, some of which are traditionally associated with hallmarks of human intelligence....
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Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024
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TechCrunch
As Disney pushes toward streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024 | TechCrunch
Disney-owned animation studio Pixar is poised to undergo layoffs this year, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. While sources at the company
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