Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Due to UK disclosure requirements, it's possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.
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UI-JEPA: Towards Active Perception of User Intent Through Onscreen User Activity
Machine Learning Research at Apple
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Generating user intent from a sequence of user interface (UI) actions is a core challenge in comprehensive UI understanding. Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have led to substantial progress in this area, but their demands for extensive model parameters, computing power, and high latency makes them impractical for scenarios requiring lightweight, on-device solutions with low latency or heightened privacy.
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How Data-Driven Brands Can Use PowerShell Invoke-WebRequests
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Powershell can be a great tool for web scraping, which data-driven businesses should take advantage of.
What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
"Unstripping" binaries: Restoring debugging information in GDB with Pwndbg
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
By Jason An GDB loses significant functionality when debugging binaries that lack debugging symbols (also known as “stripped binaries”). Function and variable names become meaningless addresses; setting breakpoints requires tracking down relevant function addresses from an external source; and printing out structured values involves staring at a memory dump trying to manually discern field boundaries.
A Beginner’s Guide to Converting Numerical Data to Categorical: Binning and Binarization
Towards AI
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Imagine sifting through rows of data in a spreadsheet packed with numbers that look impressive at first glance. But when you try to analyze them, the digits feel like a maze, hard to interpret and even harder to draw conclusions from.
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Handling Mixed Variables in Feature Engineering: A Practical Guide with Code
Towards AI
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Last Updated on September 8, 2024 by Editorial Team Author(s): Souradip Pal Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. A girl looking at a screen containing mixed variables. Source: Image generated by Dall-E Imagine you’re working on a brand-new data project, the kind that makes your hands twitch with excitement.
Graphics Tricks from Boomers
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Technical details about a recent 4096bytes Atari-STE intro, by Arnaud Carré
Your Company Needs Junior Devs
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate
Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think abt what it mean (2016)
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context.
Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this 'jumboization' surgery is becoming very common. Let's take a look at how it's done.
The worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 erratum situation
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
There's currently a significant amount of confusion around the full extent of the GPIO hardware issue in the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, with [Ian] over at [Dangerous Prototypes] of Bus Pirat.
The Big Baltic Bomb Cleanup
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
The ocean became a dumping ground for weapons after Allied forces defeated the Nazis. Now a team of robots and divers are making the Baltic Sea safer.
Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM's latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike any other server CPU. It only has eight cores, but runs them at a very high 5.
How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
ATProto for Distributed System Engineers
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
AT Protocol is the tech developed at Bluesky for open social networking. In this article we're going to explore AT Proto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.
Nikon sold more Z9 cameras in its first year than any flagship in past 15 years
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
There was little doubt Nikon's Z9 was successful, but the company's CEO has revealed just how well it sold.
An NFC Movie Library for My Kids
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl.
Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Exploding Head Syndrome: What We Know About This Mysterious Disorder
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Have you ever been drifting off to sleep, only to be jerked awake by the sound of a bomb going off inside your head? If you have, then you have most likely experienced exploding head syndrome, a mysterious and poorly understood sleep disorder.
Reclaim the Stack
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
We spent 7 months building a Kubernetes based platform to replace Heroku for our SaaS product at mynewsdesk.com. The results were a 90% reduction in costs and a 30% improvement in performance. We also significantly improved developer experience with reduced deploy times and faster / more accessible tooling.
With more legal action on the horizon, how long before Archive.org closes?
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
What I gave up to become an engineering manager
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
The five things I had to let go to transition successfully from IC to EM.
The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
A future you might actually want to live in.
Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
This post is kind of part 3, coming off last week's thrilling episode. I am a simple sole, I want to reduce the cognitive load in my web projects. The general idea is to go back to the halcyon early days of the web before Netscape dropped the JS-bomb.
Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
LLM_transcribe_recording: Bash Helper Using Mlx_whisper
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
A bash wrapper around python's mlx_whisper to leverage the GPU on a mac for transcription - llm.
Open Props – Supercharged CSS Variables
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are mostly made of hydrogen
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.
How a Customer Got Trapped in Ambetter's Ghost Network
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist.
The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
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