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I am trying to understand why US tech workers seem to be so Libertarian on open border immigration policy, when it clearly does not benefit them (downward pressure on salaries, immigrant ethnic cronyism, etc). Where does this attitude come from?

It makes it easy to hit API's, web scrape, do text-to-speech via online services etc in order to build rich flash cards in an automated way. This has grown organically over a couple of years while learning French and German with some friends and thought some of you guys might find it useful. An example pipeline I built with Hanky: - Use CV to grab highlighted words and their context off of a page of printed text (extract) - translate the highlighted word via an API (transform) - generate audio w

Ford plans to embed Apple Maps directly into its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform, which will start with a $30,000 midsize pickup truck set for release in 2027. In an announcement on Thursday, Ford says it will use Apple Maps to offer "turn-by-turn directions using natural language, real-time traffic and incident information, intuitive search featuring detailed […]

Ultrahuman's revamped app now offers better advice even when your phone has no connection.

OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insight