Published on: 2025-04-20 07:13:45
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is paying software company Palantir $30 million to provide the agency with “near real-time visibility” on people self-deporting from the United States, according to a contract justification published in a federal register on Thursday. The tool would also help ICE choose who to deport, giving special priority to “visa overstays,” the document shows. Palantir has been an ICE contractor since 2011, but the document published Thursday indicates that Palantir want
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 00:24:10
Why I gave up on self-hosted Sentry Klaas van Schelven; September 6, 2024 - 6 min read In the early 2010s, I was a big fan of Sentry. It was a great tool for tracking errors in web applications. At the time, I was making software for law firms, so sending error reports to a third-party service was out of the question, I needed to host it myself. So I did. After leaving the law firm world, I worked as a contractor for a few years. So when I overheard one of my colleagues asking whether it woul
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 14:38:17
Back in October of 2024, Tesla investors and fanboys alike flocked to Hollywood for the company's "We, Robot" event. The company's backers hoped Musk would finally unveil the long-awaited "$25,000 Tesla" — a lower-budget EV that was sure to rejuvenate sales as the costly Cybertruck flopped — but what they got was anything but. Instead, the event kicked off with a visibly stiff Elon Musk waving to the crowd and climbing into a garish gold sedan. It was our first peak at Cybercab, Tesla's self-d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:49:05
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile disabled self-service SIM card changes in 2022 to implement new security measures against SIM swap attacks. Although the carrier initially said this was a temporary change, T-Mobile subscribers are still required to contact support to change SIM cards. A new report suggests that T-Mobile may finally enable self-service SIM swaps via the T-Life app later this month. T-Mobile currently requires subscribers to contact support or visit a nearby
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 04:42:54
To fully inhabit the World Wide Web you need to create your digital self within it. For a lot of us, the “simple” prospect of filling in that web page with content presents an insurmountable writer’s block. That’s why we start with link lists as a primitive building block. Make a list of 1, 3 or however many links that say something, anything, about you. Whatever you’ve listed, you’ve done it! You told us something about your self, and with that you are taking up a bit of space on the web, as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 03:27:28
We ported a few popular Shadertoy shaders over to Rust using Rust GPU. The process was straightforward and we want to share some highlights. The code is available on GitHub. Rust GPU is a project that allows you to write code for GPUs using the Rust programming language. GPUs are typically programmed using specialized languages like WGSL, GLSL, MSL, or HLSL. Rust GPU changes this by letting you use Rust to write GPU programs (often called "shaders" or "kernels"). These Rust GPU programs are t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 02:48:50
Recently I had a lot of fun playing with the Prospero Challenge by Matt Keeter. The challenge is to render a 1024x1024 image of a quote from The Tempest by Shakespeare. The input is a mathematical formula with 7866 operations, which is evaluated once per pixel. What made the challenge particularly enticing for me personally was the fact that the formula is basically a trace in SSA-form – a linear sequence of operations, where every variable is assigned exactly once. The challenge is to evaluate
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 01:28:23
Reflections on the Mirror Stage Hollis Robbins reflects on the uses of the college admissions essay, and what it says about young applicants. By Hollis Robbins April 27, 2021 Two key consequences of so many colleges and university systems scrapping the SAT/ACT requirement are that the numbers of applicants at top schools skyrocketed and suddenly more attention is being paid to the college essay. But the essay, a central element of the application “package,” is arguably more biased than standard
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 10:30:00
Table of Contents Zoox Is Bringing Its Driverless Test Fleet to Los Angeles Zoox, the self-driving company owned by Amazon, is making its Los Angeles debut. On Tuesday, the company said it's expanding its test fleet to Southern California, meaning riders there will eventually be able to hail a ride in one of its pod-like robotaxis, which don't have a steering wheel, pedals or driver's seat. Los Angeles joins six other locations where Zoox is testing its self-driving technology: the San Francis
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 12:15:59
Teslas get a bad rap these days. Aside from the whole Elon Musk thing, the electric vehicles are becoming notorious for shoddy construction, massive consumer recalls, and sketchy self-driving software. There is, however, one thing Teslas seem to excel at: mowing down motorcyclists. According to a new analysis by FuelArc, Teslas have a totally unique propensity for plowing over motorcyclists among self-driving cars — supporting a belief among some motorcyclists that Teslas are particularly dang
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 21:42:56
Real-Time Introspective Compression for Transformers By Jeffrey Emanuel (and various collaborators of the electronic persuasion) Written on April 1st, 2025 Introduction: Two Intertwined Problems Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) face two significant limitations that restrict their capabilities: Lack of Introspection: Unless specifically instrumented, transformer-based LLMs have no ability to explicitly access their own internal states—the activations in their feed-forward layer
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 18:00:26
A contraceptive implant is a thin and flexible rod that sits under the skin and releases contraceptive drugs into the body for years. While it’s one of the most effective forms of contraceptives and avoids the inconvenience of having to take a pill every day, the implant requires minor surgery, which can limit accessibility. To make life a bit easier, researchers are creating a self-assembling contraceptive implant the components of which women could self-administer with a single injection. A t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 01:29:32
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds There’s a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction. When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the notion of an “everything device” was universally celebrated. A single object that could serve as phone, camera, music player, web browser, and so much more promised unprecedented convenience and connectivity. It was, quite literally, the dream of the nineties. But the better part of twenty years later, we’ve gained enough perspective t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 06:29:32
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds There’s a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction. When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the notion of an “everything device” was universally celebrated. A single object that could serve as phone, camera, music player, web browser, and so much more promised unprecedented convenience and connectivity. It was, quite literally, the dream of the nineties. But the better part of twenty years later, we’ve gained enough perspective t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 07:46:31
We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experience that promised utopia today, especially now that Amazon’s Big Spring Sale has arrived. Today’s floor cleaners are also more advanced than ever. In addition to vacuuming, many of t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 02:37:39
A UI might not make it easier Posted on February 22, 2025 Building self-serve access to internal systems is generally a good idea. It would be silly to do engineering work to make a change when pressing buttons would do. The fact that it’s generally (and not universally) a good idea means that there are cases where it isn’t a good idea. The idea of making a task easier by making it self-serve, no code, in a UI shouldn’t be applied when the unavoidable complexity and nuance of the task to be do
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 02:43:09
The Gang of Four got it wrong. Ruby's standard library has it wrong. Rails has it wrong. Is it still wrong if everyone is doing it? Yes. The Gang of Four book Design Patterns gives us common vocabulary to understand basic patterns in Object-oriented programming. It helps all of us use the same terms when discussing our software and prevents confusion. Sadly, this book seems to cause a whole hell of a lot of confusion. They say "prefer composition over inheritance." That's great, there's goo
Keywords: class delegation message object self
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 04:56:46
FizzBee is a new formal specification language, originally announced back in May of last year. FizzBee’s author, Jayaprabhakar (JP) Kadarkarai, reached out to me recently and asked me what I thought of it, so I decided to give it a go. To play with FizzBee, I decided to model some algorithms that solve the mutual exclusion problem, more commonly known as locking. Mutual exclusion algorithms are a classic use case for formal modeling, but here’s some additional background motivation: a few years
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 12:58:40
We've explored progressively more sophisticated techniques for optimizing numerical computations. We started with basic MLIR concepts, moved through memory management and linear algebra, and then neural network implementations. Each layer has added new capabilities for expressing and optimizing computations. Now we're reading to build our first toy compiler for Python expressions. In this section, we'll explore how to use the egglog library to perform term rewriting and optimization on Python e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 23:00:34
Local-First & Ejectable An important requirement to ensure you can fully access your data in cloud apps forever is making the backend sync server available for local self-hosting. That's what EJECTABLE apps are about. Local-first allows users to enjoy all the benefits cloud apps bring (like seamless real-time collaboration, syncing, auto backups) while keeping the data ownership aspect from traditional desktop software. The problem is that's just the data part. What about the longevity of the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 02:35:27
San Francisco has found a nice new revenue stream: Hitting self-driving Waymos with traffic citations. The city cited Waymo vehicles 589 times in 2024 for a grand total of $65,065 in penalties. The violations ranged from blocking street traffic to parking in prohibited areas. Google-owned Waymo operates 300 vehicles in San Francisco that are available to the public, meaning that they have received less than two tickets a day on average. Waymo told TechCrunch that they are working on the citatio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 07:08:15
Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting: A Comprehensive Guide A visual representation of time series data analysis and probabilistic forecasting techniques Table of Contents Introduction Time series forecasting has undergone an extensive transformation from deterministic point predictions to sophisticated probabilistic approaches. This paradigm shift represents a fundamental change in how we deal with uncertainty in predictive analytics. Rather than generating single-point forecasts, modern p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 22:45:04
We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experience that promised utopia right now. Today’s floor cleaners are also more advanced than ever. In addition to vacuuming, many of the best models can now mop, allowing you to tackle bot
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 04:24:24
If you’ve spent time in San Francisco or Phoenix in the past couple years, chances are you’ve probably seen a self-driving car making its way around. This week, we’re joined by WIRED’s Aarian Marshall to talk about the race to flood our streets with self-driving cars. We’ll get into safety regulations, the pros and cons of robotaxis, and we imagine a future where driverless cars become mainstream. You can follow Michael Calore on Bluesky at @snackfight, Lauren Goode on Bluesky at @laurengoode,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 14:24:24
If you’ve spent time in San Francisco or Phoenix in the last couple years, chances are you’ve probably seen a self-driving car making its way around. This week, we’re joined by WIRED’s Aarian Marshall to talk about the race to flood our streets with self-driving cars. We’ll get into safety regulations, the pros and cons of robotaxis, and we imagine a future where driverless cars become mainstream. You can follow Michael Calore on Bluesky at @snackfight, Lauren Goode on Bluesky at @laurengoode,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 10:00:07
A motivational speaker who’s built a career on teaching people how to overcome negativity, particularly when it comes in the form of persistent self-doubt, becomes haunted by the voices in her own head in Control Freak. Shal Ngo’s new horror feature for Hulu starts off strong only to fragment a bit in its third act—but Kelly Marie Tran, who stars as the tormented Valerie, never wavers in her performance. Tran, who came to prominence in Star Wars movies The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 09:03:03
This week-end project started by browsing the open-data repository of Paris’ public transport network, which contains various APIs to query real-time departures, current disruptions, etc. The data reuse section caught my eye, as it features external projects that use this open data. In particular, the RATP status website provides a really nice interface to visualize historical disruptions on metro, RER/train and tramway lines. A usual day of disruptions on ratpstatus.fr. Under the hood, the ra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 00:03:03
This week-end project started by browsing the open-data repository of Paris’ public transport network, which contains various APIs to query real-time departures, current disruptions, etc. The data reuse section caught my eye, as it features external projects that use this open data. In particular, the RATP status website provides a really nice interface to visualize historical disruptions on metro, RER/train and tramway lines. A usual day of disruptions on ratpstatus.fr. Under the hood, the ra
Keywords: bytes interner object objects self
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 06:55:30
It’s hard to imagine that dogs descended from fierce grey wolves—especially when your fat labrador begs for peanut butter, or your poodle snores on the couch. And yet, that’s exactly what happened. The ancestors of grey wolves were domesticated into dogs in two distinct periods: around 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, and 15,000 years ago to the modern era. While the more recent period likely saw humans selectively breeding for tamer wolves, the domestication process of the older period has been hot
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 22:32:13
Some programming language ideas Published on 21-02-2025 This post is me writing down some ideas for programming languages or programming language features. Mainly to get them out of my head into the world without having to write an actual compiler for them 😅 I start by providing some context and then present my ideas. Hopefully it’s interesting. Explanation of existing concepts Here are a few short explanations and references to existing concepts that I refer to later on. The explanations ar
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