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Biden administration specifies new cybersecurity requirements for federal software providers

Perhaps? But a confounder is the strengthening or weakening of social ties. It's not clear that what seems to increasing loneliness is doing well by this next generation.

Connecting your comment to another about commercial model, seems the potential win here is selling useful tools to radiologists that may leverage AI rather than to end customers wi…

These seems to dovetail with an existing case involving the SEC and it's authority that is under review by the Supreme Court: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/sec-v-jarkesy…

The mechanism that can shift supply to less polluting sources of electricity and shape demand for computation/electricity is pricing. Measurement, pricing and reducing pollution ex…

Timely but I dare ask: I need to rework my thinkpad, still in good shape but with an older ubuntu distro. Reasonably fluent linux user but not expert, primarily dev workflows - wha…

Start with goals. “With all this stuff I hope…” or think what you hope to be true in three years. Work back from that. The default (which is great if you like) is I’d like to spend…

One nice improvement is applying a constraint. Bard will now give a valid answer for "give a swim workout for 3000m" that correctly totals 3k, while chatgpt does not.

AWS gets many things more right, but I think GCP wins on how they handle Projects and Managed Instance Groups for auto-scaling.

A well done (gated) recent FT article on the boreal forest that also speaks to decreased scientific collaboration post-Ukraine war: https://www.ft.com/content/e59c800f-3704-4504-91…

>> That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent The debate intensity seems inversely correlated to the precision of the terms. Scrolling through the thread and the r…

We had a scare around Cystic Fibrosis. I admire your courage and compassion - my best to you and your family. The story of how CF treatments developed (Trikafta) is remarkable. KS …

I think the original DynamoDB paper is a good choice - some interesting CS/systems engineering content but relatively accessible. https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-…

I enjoyed The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Depending on what you're looking for it might be relatively light on the science side and includes autobiographical digressions, but ove…

Could you explain the principle in terms a 5-year old would understand?

To follow on from your excellent second point - "actually be involved in the conversation" People understandably don't appreciate if you're parroting back to them what they said (e…

Is that true? Take a look at e.g. https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS# . In most places, people are working less hours, and they have significantly higher standards…

Hemingway agrees: "I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it ref…

From Stroustrup of C++ fame: There are only two kinds of languages [frameworks]: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Nice, missed that. Thanks!

Article itself is pretty light on the details, but good opportunity to ask the HN community -- which podcasts really fire your neurons?

If you try to read all the words, just faster, you won't get much farther. The trick is to take a more active approach and optimize how you spend your time towards the goal of comp…

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Michael Pettis is one my favourite China commentators, with a big focus on the shifts necessary in the balance sheet and composition of growth, and whether that can be done smoothl…