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Reading into the details, the system is more impressive than the title. 100% of the algebra and geometry problems were solved. The remaining problems are of combinatorial types, wh…

Grindr’s Chinese owner has sold it to a US owner, forced by CFIUS ( https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/6/21168079/grin... ).

Functions that return random results do not fit into the most common testing paradigms. I have seen people try to verify the distribution of random results, and even that could hav…

My prediction is this will be less useful than twitter results in Google search. Btw, I like the direction of tiktok and ig videos being less walled garden. One thing I like about …

I think the context in the article is more plausible i.e. defending Hawaii from NK. Anti ship missles are not ICBM.

worried about india or the agreement?

There seem to be at least two large factions in CCP when dealing with Ant Financial. In exaggerated terms: 1. The statists who want strict control over financial giants like Ant Fi…

A few things I realized in the past few years: 1. Elite class does exist in the society, and they exert tight control on the flow of information in traditional media, e.g. TV, news…

One thing that surprised me in the US while applying for credit card: private companies can get access to my past addresses and many other personal info of me. I don’t ever want th…

I'm unfamiliar with marketing but I suspect the situation is much better now with all the tracking. And I can imagine for many APIs, people do know what most frequently used featur…

This statement seems very true, even to the point of “duh” for people who have designed and maintained semi-widely used API or applications. I wonder where the language design wisd…

Likely your db configuration is very different from what FB uses in production, so they have no incentive to investigate or fix.

It has been said that other countries, including US, in fact have more rare earth deposits. If they choose to relax environmental laws and disregard patents held by Chinese corpora…

And if Europe develop a company that threatens US leading tech / surveillance companies like Facebook / Google, or becomes the leader of the next tech wave, be prepared for US gove…

Most people do not want any war, even if it is against CCP. However the current administration seems to be pushing for at least a limited skirmish. US airforce planes have been fly…

What’s the difference between forced labor in China, vs prisoner firefighter in California?

Part 2: https://blog.yugabyte.com/yugabytedb-vs-cockroachdb-bringing... Original post from CockroachLabs: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/unpacking-competitive-ben...

It will be interesting to see how many telecoms in EU would join this.

This seems irrelevant.

It is not clear expiration time per layer is much better than the commonly used strategy of compacting to a single layer periodically. For KiWi, storing deletes separately could be…

Standard corp policy? Google disallows dropbox on devices that can access Google internal data as well.