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The modern furniture industry has taken a hit in quality over the past 15 years as manufacturing processes shifted. Sofas today are often made with subpar materials and construction, resulting in poor quality products that fall apart quickly. This decline in quality has led to a rise in direct-to-consumer brands that dominate the market, pushing […]
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The runtime/trace package in Go provides a powerful tool for understanding and troubleshooting programs by producing execution traces of each goroutine. These traces can reveal hard-to-spot issues, such as concurrency bottlenecks, and can be visualized and explored using tools like gotraceui. Historically, there have been challenges with trace overhead, scalability, and ease of analysis. However, […]
Four years after analyzing the open-source ML ecosystem, I revisited the topic focusing on foundation models. The updated list of open-source AI repositories is hosted at llama-police, updated every 6 hours. With 118K results for GPT alone, I limited my search to repos with 500+ stars, resulting in 896 repositories. Highlighting AI stack layers – […]
The J. Paul Getty Museum’s Open Content program offers 88,000 free images for download, allowing users to creatively use them for commercial purposes without permission. The expansive digital archive includes art from various civilizations and eras, such as Greek and Roman sculptures, medieval books, and works by famous painters. Users can search the collection by […]
Figma went from a single Postgres database in 2020 to a distributed architecture with vertical partitioning, read replicas, and a dozen vertically partitioned databases by the end of 2022. Scaling from vertical to horizontal sharding was a complex but necessary step to ensure continued growth. Instead of migrating to alternative databases or NoSQL solutions, Figma […]
A 2.5 million-acre region in southern Oregon has been designated the largest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world, now known as the Oregon Outback International Dark Sky Sanctuary. Plans are in place to expand the sanctuary to 11.4 million acres across Harney and Malheur counties. This designation was given by DarkSky International, with the goal […]
TextSnatcher allows users to effortlessly copy text from images and perform OCR operations quickly, with multiple language support and a simple drag-and-paste feature. The application utilizes Tesseract OCR 4.x for accurate character recognition. Users can watch tutorial screencasts and view helpful screenshots online. Dependencies are required for installation and operation. Developed by RajSolai, TextSnatcher is […]
The internet is buzzing about Joanna Stern’s interview with OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, and her dodging of questions about Sora. Critics call it a “master class in how NOT to answer a question.” Others focus on Murati’s evasiveness and lack of transparency. OpenAI’s history of misleading statements about openness, data training, regulation, and finances is […]
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Oregon has joined six other states in passing “right to repair” legislation, allowing consumers to independently repair their own electronics. The bill requires manufacturers to provide parts, tools, and repair manuals at fair terms, eliminating the practice of “parts pairing” used by companies like Apple to control repairs. While Apple opposed the bill, Google supported […]