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We're building Sorana (sorana.io), an open-source, decentralized search engine aimed at giving control back to users. Our mission is to create a privacy-first, ad-free search experience without SEO manipulation or tracking. We're building a global internet infrastructure with satellite support to enhance connectivity and content authenticity. We have a working demo and are raising $2M in pre-seed funding, with accelerators and VCs lined up. Looking for exceptional technical co-founders:

Head of Decentralized Systems & Blockchain

Lead blockchain architecture and token integration Design decentralized infrastructure

Head of AI Strategy & ML Research

Drive search relevancy innovation Lead ML/AI development

Head of Core Engineering

Design scalable backend systems Manage technical infrastructure

Head of Network & Connectivity Solutions

Design P2P and satellite mesh systems Lead connectivity infrastructure

Head of User Trust & Cybersecurity

Design privacy-preserving architecture Lead security protocols

Head of Product Design & UX

Lead UI/UX development Create intuitive search interfaces

Head of Community & User Growth

Drive user acquisition Build community engagement

We offer:

Equal equity split Full creative autonomy Opportunity to reshape internet search

Interested? Email careers@sorana.io or schedule a call directly: https://calendly.com/plawlabs/sorana Demo and technical details available upon connection.

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Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2024-10-29-github-copilot-code-review-in-github-com-public-preview/

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This weekend I got looped in with this team that was working on a vote swapping initiative. This is where people in swing states (where votes matter more for the electoral college) agree to vote for Kamala, in exchange for people in "safe" blue states voting for their protest vote of choice. So a Free Palestine voter in Pennsylvania, agrees to vote for Harris if, say, 2 Californians agree to vote for Jill Stein (or whatever, I hope this can be a thread about technology and the electorate, not about politics).

The net result is that they can cast a vote against fascism in their home (swing) state It's a weird hack, but it works.

After passing through a google sheets prototyping phase, and a phase where we thought we might fork the UK site (which funnily enough has the domain at swapMYvote.org), we decided our quickest path to scale was to throw something together with Fillout and Airtable.

I'm not a stranger to low-code, but I'm often a high-code guy, so it's been an eye-opening process building something like this on such a short time scale. We had literally a dozen days between the first scalable-ish version, and the election. On one hand, it's incredible to be able to schedule a new automated email, based on complex logic, in a couple minutes - the time it often takes me to deploy a single changeset. On the other hand, the testing tools aren't quite what you need, to make sure you don't break anything important. It also makes a big difference to your scaling speed when you have an outreach team that knows what they're doing. We've gone from zero to oh-no-gmail-wont-let-us-send-more-emails in an incredibly short time.

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24283056/reddit-earnings-user-growth-revenue-up

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This is a guide that I wrote to showcase a new batch inference feature for an OSS framework that I author (nitric.io).

I know things like Podcast generation via NotebookLM and also NotebookLlama exist, but wanted to demonstrate a case where an API could be built, and subsequently orchestrated in the cloud.

This is just the first part for producing audio using suno/bark via an API. I'm currently working on a part 2 that will introduce an LLM to make scripts from short prompt, which will be piped to the code introduced in Part 1.

Looking for feedback on improving this, there are a few things I'd like to clean up but overall am pretty happy with the outputs it produces so far.

Thanks in advance for any feedback given.

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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/telecom-group-sues-block-ftcs-click-cancel-rule-2024-10-23/

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I use the following two services but the workflow is not so good as I have to deal with seperate sites and must be very careful with the second site in particular since it does not always update the URL (my work around is to paste in the text - then the URL will be correct for use with 0x.co , but I wish I could get the same results with less effort:

https://0x.co/ (URL shortener)

-- combined with --

http://nicd.gitlab.io/t/ (stores compressed text in the URL)

If anyone owns a very short URL this could become a business for you. https://a.co/ is taken (just so you know)

An added feature I would use is client side code execution for supported programming languages and a way to add new programming languages - an easy hack would allow one to create very long programs by transparently keeping many "0x" codes collected under a master "0x" code.

Used with password protection and a default "temporary post lifetime" which can then be switched to "final" this becomes a powerful environment for programmers.

I have pointed my domain http://0by.co/ to http://nicd.gitlab.io/t/ if anyone wants to try this.

I really hope some people do!

Point your browser to 0by.co , paste in your text, copy the URL , point your browser to 0x.co , paste in the URL and choose to make it a "link" type code.

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Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/harvard-study-links-popular-plastic-ingredient-to-dna-damage/

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/man-missing-lost-park-survives

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