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Show HN: Chili. Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library
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Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance
High-hazard activities rely on rules, procedures and standards to specify safe ways of operating. These procedures, written by system designers in collaboration with safety experts, attempt to anticipate anomalous situations. However, regulations and procedures for work in complex systems are always incomplete, and sharp-end staff must sometimes deviate from the task as planned.The existence of […]
Seeing Like a Network
We’re living through a phase change that is at the root of a lot of our societal problems. It’s the fact that our information networks have become much more dense. You exist as a node in a network. Other people are other nodes. They send you information, the edges. You process it, you create your […]
Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS
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Diatom Arrangements
Home This post is a bit of an odd one: it’s a collection of images of diatom arrangements. Diatoms are single-celled algae that have a glass shell, that refracts light in beautiful colors if viewed under a microscope. They are a common subject for microscopy because of their unique shapes. They come in triangles. Circles. […]
Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform
Hi HN! I’m Eoin, founder of Sourcetable (https://sourcetable.com). Sourcetable is an AI-native spreadsheet that syncs with all your data. Users pair with an AI copilot that helps them do their spreadsheet work, as well as more database-centric analysis and SQL. Soucetable syncs with databases including Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB, and over 100+ business applications including […]
An In-Depth Guide to Contrastive Learning: Techniques, Models, and Applications
Traditionally, machine learning (ML) (opens new window) can be classified broadly into two types: supervised and unsupervised learning (opens new window). In supervised learning, we have some data with labels and these labels are used to train the model. For example, using the (labelled) images of different objects to train an image classifier. Unsupervised learning, […]
Digital signatures and how to avoid them
Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a message gives a recipient confidence that the message came from a sender known to the recipient. —Wikipedia They also have a handy diagram of the process […]
US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds – US news
The United States health system ranked dead last in an international comparison of 10 peer nations, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund. In spite of Americans paying nearly double that of other countries, the system performed poorly on health equity, access to care and outcomes. “I see the human toll of these […]