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arxiv.org 28d ago

Submodular Context Selection as a Pluggable Engine for LLM Agents

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www.newsweek.com 1y ago

Russia to Launch Free Cancer Vaccine in 2025

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www.bbc.com 1y ago

Elon Musk unveils Cybercab at Tesla robotaxi event

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www.popularmechanics.com 2y ago

Scientists Just Made a Breakthrough for Interstellar Travel

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www.macrumors.com 2y ago

Apple Publishes Details About New 'MM1' AI Model

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www.pnas.org 2y ago

Accurate estimation of biological age and its application in disease prediction

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fortune.com 2y ago

Newsom signs CA law requiring businesses to disclose their indirect emissions

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Twitter considering charging all users subscription fees

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www.imrpress.com 2y ago

Antioxidant therapies in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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www.notboring.co 2y ago

WTF Happened in 2023?

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twitter.com 3y ago

What's Our Problem – a self-help book for societies

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worksinprogress.substack.com 3y ago

In Pursuit of Decent Coffee

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github.blog 3y ago

GitHub Hits 100M Developers

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support.google.com 3y ago

Google Is Sunsetting Optimize

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artsandculture.google.com 3y ago

Paint with Music

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twitter.com 3y ago

5.0 Earthquake in the Bay Area

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Show HN: Macrometa – A CDN for databases, streaming, search, and APIs

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www.newyorker.com 3y ago

Why Oakland Parents Are Flocking to a Chinese-Immersion School

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www.macrometa.com 3y ago

Beyond Cloud Computing: The Advent of the GDN

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www.independent.co.uk 3y ago

Mimi Erotic, the fugitive animal dealer rivaling the Tiger King

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metro.co.uk 3y ago

Look inside the US human cryogenic freezing lab

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www.sequoiacap.com 3y ago

Understanding the Merge

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Terra’s Do Kwon Wins Backing for Luna Blockchain Rescue Proposal

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www.nasa.gov 4y ago

Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Soil

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pitchfork.com 4y ago

How Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5” Video Subverts Deepfake Technology

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www.dictionary.com 4y ago

Words That Come from Sanskrit

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source.wustl.edu 4y ago

Neon ice shows promise as new qubit platform

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techcrunch.com 4y ago

Google now lets you request removal of personal contact info from search results

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www.latimes.com 4y ago

From 2D to Web3: Disney is working on a metaverse game plan

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www.mercurynews.com 4y ago

Stanford Nurses Announce Strike

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For the San Francisco venues, some of my favorite artists come on random days, and as a 40-something with a kid I would only go out on nights other than Friday/Saturday if I REALLY liked the artist. From this perspective, it might make sense to weight weekday outliers higher

IDK, if you look at what Microsoft has accomplished under the leadership of Satya over the last 9 years it's obviously possible to innovate and bean count at the same time

Why Is That Funny? 4 years ago

I think being able to make people laugh in as few words as possible is a skill, and one that's very difficult to master. It's like poetry, constraints require creativity. Creepy wet uncle, to me at least, isn't very funny, but it was likely funny at the time because of the context. Unexpected things can be funny, and it's a common way to form a joke, but coming up with novel ideas that lots of people find funny isn't an easy thing to do for most people. If it was, we probably wouldn't find it that funny.

FWIW, I think this is what has made Twitter so popular. The original 140 character limit with out the ability to do tweet threads in the form we have now put a lot of constraints on people. Being thoughtful or funny in 140 characters is difficult, but a lot of folks came up with some pretty amazing insights and quips.

I’m a parent of a child at the Oakland school. I believe the DC school is unaffiliated. I’ve heard it’s common for parents to take their kids out because they decide being taught in multiple languages where the main language is their child’s second language isn’t working for their child.

I was also really excited about The Wheel of Time series that came out on Prime (especially since Sanderson was consulting on it), but it really disapointed for the same reasons. The Expanse was spot on though. I hope someone picks the show back up so they can finish out the series.

Residential real estate represents 5% of the GDP (in the US), 25% of an individuals wealth, and 65% of the homes are owner occupied. A 20% tax even if only for property deemed underdeveloped would bankrupt a ton of people (myself included) and throw the entire market into chaos. Most people who were hit with this wouldn't be able to redevelop because of the expense, so they would be forced to sell. The market would get flooded and drive down the value. Investors would snatch everything up, redevelop, and start driving up rental prices. We need change but this would be horrible in so many ways.

I think the point is that actual diagonoses are often wrong and potentially harmful, which I agree with. I share a bit of your story, getting diagonised with ADHD benefited me greatly and led me down a path that likely saved my life. At the same time, while many people are helped by the medical system many others aren't and psych drugs are an area where there is a lot of finger waving in how drugs are perscribed.

It just comes down to who the board allows to sell stock and at what time. Most option contracts don’t allow sale of stock to secondary markets without approval and rank and file employees have much more restricted stock. Often founders and key executives will also get some liquidity and stock top up during funding rounds while no one else at the company has that option. By the time a company goes public most founders and key execs have already made quite a bit of money on the side.

Closing with people on the other side aren't going to agree with me makes me think this person likes stirring the pot and getting attention, which is one of the things called out as dangerous in their argument. FWIW, I think lots of people self diagnose for attention and I absolutely agree that mental health shouldn't be something we laud (we should normalize it though) even though the author would almost definitely group me with the leftists.

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