OpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, and his team leader Jan Leike resigned from the company due to concerns over its shift away from safety-focused culture. The resignations were met with speculation about potential conflicts or secret projects, but it was later revealed that former employees are subject to restrictive non-disclosure agreements that prevent them from ...

Bend is a programming language that runs on massively parallel hardware like GPUs, allowing for near-linear speedup based on core count without explicit parallel annotations. It uses the HVM2 runtime and can be used to write parallel programs by simply writing sequential code, with no need for thread spawning or lock management.

This Rust course teaches core concepts through exercises, starting from scratch and covering syntax, type system, standard library, and ecosystem. The course is interactive and hands-on, with solutions available on GitHub and a tool to verify progress.

The talk explores what happens when math is broken in the source code of Doom, a classic first-person shooter game, by changing values of pi and other trigonometric functions. The speaker will demonstrate how this affects gameplay and discuss potential gaming possibilities with non-Euclidean geometries.

But when you actually quit, the 'general release'? It's a long, hardnosed, legally aggressive contract that includes a confidentiality agreement which covers the release itself, as well as arbitration, nonsolicitation and nondisparagement and broad 'noninterference' agreement.

The proposed work recovers 3D structures from non-geometrically consistent hand-drawn images, focusing on cartoons and anime. The method uses annotation tools, camera pose estimation, and image deformation to correct inconsistencies and enable novel-view synthesis reconstruction.

You're frustrated with email's backend complexity and propose a new DNS record (MX2) for improved security, authentication, and compatibility. A standardized HTML spec, headers for chain preferences, and public key encryption would simplify self-hosted email setup and reduce spam filtering issues.

A Duke Human Vaccine Institute-developed HIV vaccine candidate triggered low levels of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies among a small group, showing feasibility for inducing antibodies that neutralize diverse strains. The study's findings demonstrate strong immune activation and set the stage for further research to induce more potent neutralizing antibodies against other sites on HIV.

Edit every input for a DCF model to fine tune your model to your exact assumptions. Get the most up to date and accurate data for any public company to enhance your research.

A technician tested ADSL broadband on a 2m length of wet string, using salty water to get it working at 3.5Mb/s download speed. The experiment demonstrates the technology's ability to adapt to poor line conditions and highlights the importance of handling faults that seem like low speeds.

Experts.js is a framework that simplifies the creation and deployment of OpenAI's Assistants, allowing for the linking of multiple assistants as tools to create complex systems with expanded memory and attention to detail. The framework provides features such as thread management, file search, and event handling, making it easier to build multi-agent systems that can perform tasks like chat ...

The Starlink satellite service uses a unique combination of technologies, including phased array antennae and dynamic channel rate control, to provide internet connectivity with varying signal quality and latency. The TCP protocol's performance over Starlink connections is affected by factors such as packet loss, jitter, and satellite handovers, requiring optimization techniques like BBR or ...

LoRA, a parameter-efficient finetuning method, underperforms full finetuning on two target domains but provides stronger regularization and maintains base model performance outside the domain. LoRA's lower rank perturbations may explain some gaps with full finetuning, and best practices for using LoRA are proposed.

The decline of ornamentation in architecture is often attributed to the rising cost of labor, but this theory has been disproven by evidence showing that technology actually made many types of ornament cheaper and more accessible. Instead, the decline of ornamentation can be attributed to changes in cultural demand, as modernist architectural movements rejected ornate designs and instead ...

New Zealand beekeepers are devastated after being ordered to burn thousands of beehives and equipment due to American Foulbrood disease, with no compensation or insurance available. The industry is calling for a new approach, including vaccination and sterilization methods, as the current pest management plan has failed to reduce the disease's spread.

DNA from a dead sheep in the Lake District has been identified as belonging to a big cat, likely a leopard, marking the first time such DNA has been found on a carcass in the UK. The discovery was made by Professor Robin Allaby at the University of Warwick and confirms previous findings of non-native big cat presence in England.

ILGPU is a.Net-based JIT compiler for high-performance GPU programs written in C# without native dependencies, offering flexibility and performance. It provides a set of algorithms, debugging tools, and community support through Discord for developing real-world applications on various accelerators.

C variable declarations can be complex, but understanding basic types and derived types helps. Following operator precedence rules and consuming derived-type tokens to the right as far as possible without bumping into grouping parentheses allows for accurate decoding.

Datawrapper does not support dual-axis charts and recommends alternatives such as using two separate charts, indexed charts, labeling, or connected scatterplots to visualize data series with different magnitudes or measures. Dual-axis charts can be misleading and confusing for readers due to arbitrary scales and the tendency to compare lines and points based on proximity rather than actual values.

Urban renewal policies in the US, which aimed to revitalize cities by bulldozing low-income areas, have led to persistent infrastructure issues and a lack of trust in government projects. The legacy of urban renewal continues to hinder efficient development and planning, with excessive public process and veto points perpetuating inequitable outcomes and slow project delivery.

This course provides a step-by-step guide to engineering optimal prompts for Claude, a language model, with exercises and advanced methods. The tutorial uses Claude's smallest model, Haiku, and covers topics such as APIs and metrics like Time-To-First-Token and End-to-End latency.

Researchers at Swarthmore College and Los Alamos National Laboratory found that neural networks struggle to learn the Game of Life, a simple grid-based automaton, due to limitations in their ability to explore and converge on optimal solutions. The study highlights issues with deep learning models and suggests that increasing complexity may not always be the solution, but rather a need for ...

Austria's Zwentendorf nuclear plant was completed in the 1970s but never turned on due to public outcry and a subsequent referendum banning all nuclear power plants. The facility was partially dismantled and repurposed as a spare parts warehouse, film shooting location, and security training site.

A vulnerability in the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) standard allows attackers to create forged emails that pass DKIM's cryptographic checks, putting billions of users at risk. The issue stems from loose interpretations of the standard across numerous implementations, and experts recommend ignoring signatures using the "l=" tag and rotating DKIM keys periodically to mitigate misuse.

Mathematicians have been exploring what happens when you take a line for a walk, inspired by Paul Klee's quote. This concept has been debated for five centuries, with answers still being sought in the field of mathematics.

The article challenges the assumption that creativity is a binary property, arguing that everyone has the potential to be creative and that there are ways to increase one's creativity. It discusses various techniques for fostering creativity, including combining existing ideas, allowing for unconscious processing, reading widely, and engaging in playful exploration.

OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4o, and its potential deal with Apple to integrate ChatGPT technology into iPhones are not enough to alleviate concerns about the company's long-term viability due to competition from Big Tech companies like Google, Apple, and Meta. OpenAI's focus on consumer-facing products and lack of confidence in building AGI may be a sign of weakness, as it will ultimately lose ...

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The user expresses frustration with links to Twitter and X.com being posted on Hacker News, as they often lead to nothing or require logging in, which can be problematic for users without accounts. The user suggests that HN should consider banning links to paywalled content, including Twitter and X.com, or providing alternative solutions such as screenshots or archive links.

OpenAI's "superalignment team" has been disbanded after several researchers, including colead Ilya Sutskever and John Leike, left the company. The team was focused on preparing for the advent of supersmart AI, but its work will be absorbed into OpenAI's other research efforts as the company continues to develop more humanlike AI models.

Chrome DevTools provides detailed explanations for errors and warnings in the Console, which can be enabled by turning on the "Understand console messages with AI" checkbox. The feature uses Google's large language models to generate explanations, but may produce inaccurate or misleading results, and users are encouraged to submit feedback when encountering wrong explanations.

Thunderbird.net has a new look and improved navigation menu to make it easier to find information, resources, and ways to contribute. The website refresh includes a new Home page, expanded navigation menu, simplified download options, and updated sections for about the project, contact information, and contributing.

The author, who has been diagnosed with incurable head and neck cancer, reflects on the cost-benefit analysis of his treatment and argues that it may not be justified given the financial costs and limited benefits. He also discusses the need for more innovative treatments, such as personalized vaccines, and criticizes the FDA's regulatory approach for hindering medical progress.

The NYPD plans to use drones as first responders in five police precincts, including Central Park, to respond to select 911 calls. The department will outfit precinct rooftops with drone platforms and monitor live footage from the Joint Operations Center at police headquarters.

The Hierarchical Memory Transformer (HMT) framework improves long-context processing ability by imitating human memorization behavior, leveraging memory-augmented segment-level recurrence. HMT can be easily plugged into future large language models to handle long context effectively with minimal additional parameters.

The author initially believed that embracing self-hatred and envy was necessary for success, but now sees that prioritizing peace of mind can lead to faster progress and long-term sustainability. Real strength comes from accepting what's outside one's control and being at peace with oneself, rather than constantly striving with anxiety.

The Sakuga-42M Dataset is a large-scale cartoon animation dataset with 42 million keyframes and comprehensive annotations, addressing the lack of such data for cartoon research. By fine-tuning foundation models on this dataset, researchers can achieve outstanding performance on cartoon-related tasks and foster generalization and robustness in future applications.

Rust 1.78.0 has been released, which includes an upgrade to LLVM 18 and fixes the misalignment issue with 128-bit integers on x86 architectures, resulting in improved performance when accessing data. The alignment fix reduces cache misses and makes memory accesses faster, but comes at a higher memory footprint due to added padding in memory layouts.

The author, an avid Scrabble player, reflects on their addiction to the game and how it has replaced their previous addiction to alcohol. Despite initial anxiety, they have a positive experience playing at the New York Scrabble Club and find acceptance among fellow players, leading them to reevaluate their obsession as potentially healthy.

US wages have increased since the pandemic, but rising rents are eating into those gains, with median rent reaching $1,987 in March. The gap between wage growth and rent increases is widest in large cities, where renters are feeling the pinch and using a larger portion of their paycheck for shelter.

A study surveyed workers who experienced GDPR implementation, finding they recognize their rights and appreciate data practice changes, considering it positive for companies and privacy. Policymakers may build on this public support by seeking early feedback from similar dual professional-consumer groups as GDPR evolves.

The user created a new hostname and added it to their webserver config, but it was quickly discovered by an unknown entity. The entity sent 62 requests in just a few seconds, highlighting the importance of proper security measures beyond relying on obscurity.

Google searchers are complaining about the new AI Overviews feature, which they cannot opt out of in the US and will be rolled out globally later this year. Users are unhappy with inaccurate results, intrusive design, and concerns over plagiarism and job threats to media professionals, seeking ways to permanently disable the feature.

Damien Miller started splitting sshd into multiple binaries, including a listener and session binary. The listener will validate configuration, load hostkeys, and manage MaxStartups, while the session binary handles all session handling tasks.

The paper proposes an explicit representation based on Gaussian mixture models for reconstructing high-quality 3D content, addressing challenges in scaling to higher dimensions. The approach includes a culling scheme for efficient fitting and evaluation, as well as a loss-adaptive density control scheme for compact representation and adaptive refinement.

The "AI Expo for National Competitiveness" conference in Washington DC brought together top tech companies, military officials, and war proponents to discuss the future of war and AI-powered violence, with some speakers condoning violence and others downplaying its impact on civilians. The event featured panels and booths promoting military technology and surveillance, with few attendees ...

Protocol buffers transform data into a compact binary stream for storage or transmission, using varint encoding to represent integers and wire types to describe payload formats. The example encodes a Fruit message with two fields, name and weight, resulting in a binary stream that can be validated with protoc.

Alexey Pertsev, a Russian developer behind crypto anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, was found guilty of money laundering by a Dutch court and sentenced to five years and four months in prison. The court ruled that Pertsev's actions allowed criminals to freely launder $1.2 billion in stolen cryptocurrency and that he deliberately looked away from the abuse despite knowing what was happening.

Western Digital has released new external storage products using a 6 TB 2.5-inch hard drive, which is thicker than existing drives and likely uses shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. The drives are available in various models with USB-C or USB Micro-B connectors, priced between $179.99 and $229.99, and come with a three-year limited warranty.

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Expedia Group has let go of its Chief Technology Officer Rathi Murthy and Senior Vice President Sreenivas Rachamadugu due to a policy violation. The company will not comment further on the matter, but is actively searching for new candidates to fill these roles.

The author discusses various approaches to hashing and canonicalizing data structures, including sets, graphs, and trees, with a focus on respecting interesting notions of equality and alpha equivalence. They explore different techniques such as homomorphism hashes, invariant fingerprints, graph matching, and trie-based representations to achieve efficient and correct hashing modulo alpha equivalence.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has lost several employees who were concerned about ensuring AI safety due to CEO Sam Altman's leadership and priorities. The departures include Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, leaders of the superalignment team, who have expressed concerns about OpenAI's ability to responsibly handle artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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The Wine development release 9.9 is now available. What's new in this release: Support for new Wow64 mode in ODBC. Improved...

The MOMENT project addresses challenges in pre-training large models for time series analysis by compiling a diverse public dataset and designing a benchmark to evaluate performance. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of pre-trained models with minimal data and fine-tuning, with interesting observations about large pre-trained time series models.

Microsoft's PC Manager app recommends resetting Edge search engine to Bing, sparking concerns about upselling. The move is seen as a gentle nudge towards using Microsoft's revamped and AI-powered Bing with ChatGPT, despite being optional and not installed by default on Windows PCs.

Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper's account, wiping out $135 billion worth of funds and data, due to an "unprecedented sequence of events" that resulted in the deletion of their Private Cloud subscription. The outage lasted two weeks as Google failed to prevent account deletion and backups were also lost, highlighting the importance of multi-cloud solutions for disaster recovery.

Rachel Aviv's New Yorker piece questions the sturdiness of the case against Lucy Letby, a former neonatal nurse convicted of killing seven babies and attempting to kill six more, citing unusual court restrictions and lack of critical reflection in UK media coverage. The article highlights concerns about press freedom and transparency in the case, which has been shrouded in secrecy due to ...

A new Senate report warns that the high cost of weight-loss drugs could bankrupt the US healthcare system, with estimated annual costs reaching $411 billion if half of adults with obesity start taking these drugs. The report suggests that drugmakers should set their US prices to match lower prices in other countries, such as Denmark, to reduce costs and avoid increasing the national deficit.

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git, has upgraded his Arm64 testing setup with a more powerful Ampere AArch64 system, allowing him to compile Arm64 kernel builds at a rate similar to x86-64. He still uses an Apple M2 MacBook Air for weekly test builds but relies on the Ampere system as his daily driver for heavy-duty testing.

The Serial Port team on YouTube found and preserved the last existing copy of Archie, a groundbreaking search engine from 1989 that indexed FTP servers, after nearly vanishing from the internet. The team's efforts to rescue and run an actual Archie server have made its code and documentation available again, allowing users to search for files like they did in the early days of the internet.

A Wordle game clone allows collaborative play and undoing mistakes by storing the game state in the URL bar, with each letter being a link. The game uses base64-encoded JSON to store the state, rendering it as HTML with links on an on-screen keyboard and prettifying it with CSS.

AliceVision is a Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework for 3D Reconstruction and Camera Tracking.

Mozilla Firefox has incorporated NVIDIA RTX Video, which uses AI to improve video quality on Windows PCs and workstations, making videos appear sharper and more detailed. The technology, available in Firefox's latest version (v126), supports RTX Video Super Resolution and HDR enhancements for online videos.

The user has created a massive YouTube playlist of over 3,000 free movies and another playlist of 300 documentaries on their LearnOutLoud YouTube Channel. They also share their personal experience with depression and anxiety, recommending various audio books, podcasts, and videos that have helped them cope with these mental health issues.

GLEWBOT, a robot inspired by geckos and woodpeckers, climbs walls to inspect exterior wall tiles autonomously, reducing costs and requiring no specialized tools or skills. It uses suction cup feet and a hollow drum hammer to tap tiles and detect questionable ones based on sound echoes using an audio classification model.

This Middleman blog template features TailwindCSS, markdown parsing, and code highlighting, ideal for lightweight blogging or personal websites. It's easy to deploy on any static site host, including Netlify and Vercel, with Ruby v3.3.0 required for setup.

The Perl and Raku Conference, now in its 26th year, is seeking corporate sponsors to offset costs and provide benefits to organizations that use Perl. Sponsorship opportunities include logo display on banners and website, swag distribution, and listing as a sponsor in event materials.

Philosopher at MIT argues that people tend to overestimate the number of problems and underestimate the good things in life due to an orientation towards problem-solving in conversations, which leads to pessimistic vibes despite actual improvements. This phenomenon can be explained by a simple computational model that predicts both this dynamic and how social media makes it worse, leading to ...

The European Commission has launched an investigation into Meta, accusing its platforms Facebook and Instagram of creating addictive behavior among children and damaging mental health. The probe aims to determine the effectiveness of Meta's age verification tools and child privacy safeguards, raising concerns about increased censorship on these platforms.

The user had issues with their tankless water heater taking too long to provide hot water, but discovered that it was also vulnerable to hacking through its Wi-Fi module. They installed the module and connected it to an app, allowing them to control recirculation and get hot water on demand, but felt this added another inconvenience.

Vint Cerf, Google's chief internet evangelist, suggests that privacy may not be sustainable and is an anomaly created by technology. He believes that social networks like Facebook have outraced our social intuition, leading to a need for more respectful privacy conventions to develop as we move forward.

Electric vehicle sales have stalled globally, with growth slowing down after years of rapid increase, and governments are facing a dilemma on how to boost sales without harming their own economies. The challenge lies in balancing the need for cheaper EVs to meet climate targets with the need to protect domestic car manufacturers and local jobs.

The United States faces a high risk of global conflict, similar to previous periods in history, and must be prepared for rapid changes and surprises from its adversaries. The current situation is complex, with multiple flashpoints around the world, including Ukraine and Taiwan, and requires careful consideration of economic deterrent tools alongside military instruments to avoid catastrophic defeat.

Android 15 improves standby battery life by up to 3 hours on some devices, achieved by speeding up the time it takes for phones to enter doze mode by 50%. This change will apply to all devices that receive an update to Android 15, including Wear OS.

The paper presents an algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a stream without using hashes, which is simple and charming. The algorithm uses coin flips to probabilistically select elements and dynamically adjusts the probability based on memory usage to achieve efficient count-distinct estimation.

Alena Kate Pettitt, a self-proclaimed "trad wife," has been at the forefront of a movement that celebrates traditional homemaking and domesticity, but she has become disillusioned with its commercialization and politicization. She left Instagram and is reevaluating her identity as a homemaker, considering renaming the term to something like "old-fashioned homemaker" or "modern traditional wife."

A bug in iOS 17.5 causes deleted photos to reappear on iPhones and iPads, even after erasure and sale. The issue impacts devices with old photos synced via iCloud Photo Library, raising concerns about privacy violations.

Shein, a Chinese fast fashion brand, may list on the London Stock Exchange, potentially being the biggest IPO in London this year and boosting UK capital markets. However, concerns over supply chain practices and worker conditions may deter investors and raise scrutiny for the company.

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Data scientists need to learn database concepts, such as views and table indexes, to scale their analytics. However, they may not need a full-fledged database for smaller tasks, and can use organized parquet files with tools like DuckDB and Apache Arrow instead.

Slack's policy allows it to collect customer data, including messages and files, to train its AI models, but the company claims it does not use this data for training. Slack has agreed to update its privacy principles to clarify how customer data is used for AI training and ensure that customer data never leaves Slack's trust boundary.

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IBM is releasing four variations of its Granite code model, a family of large language models trained on 116 programming languages and over 3 trillion tokens, to make coding easier for developers. The models can be used for tasks such as code generation, fixing bugs, explaining code, and more, and are available under the Apache 2.0 license for open-source use.

SQL, a structured query language, was first published in 1974 and has since become the standard for interacting with data, used by professional programmers and developers. Despite its age, SQL continues to thrive due to its strong mathematical theory, ability to map data to business practices, and adaptability to new technologies such as AI and vector searches.

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Previsualization is a process used in filmmaking to visualize scenes beyond script descriptions, allowing for creative decisions and cost savings. The technique has evolved over time, with Francis Ford Coppola's "Electronic Cinema" being a significant milestone, and now filmmakers use various tools such as Adobe Premiere and After Effects to create previsualizations.

The floppy disk was introduced in the 1970s as a compact and portable storage solution, holding up to 79.7 KB of data, and later evolved to hold more data with smaller sizes like 3.5-inch disks. Despite being largely replaced by newer technologies, floppy disks still linger in some industrial equipment, medical devices, and retro computing enthusiasts' collections due to their stability and ...

Apple's recent change allowing third-party browser engines on iOS devices in the EU comes with a restriction that requires developers to physically locate their teams in the EU for testing and development. This geofencing requirement adds an additional barrier to developing and supporting alternative browsers, making it difficult for companies like Google and Mozilla to create non-WebKit ...

Andy Oliver, a Long Beach resident, successfully petitioned to ban short-term rentals in his neighborhood after dealing with noise and disturbance issues from neighboring Airbnb properties. The ban has sparked similar efforts in nine other Long Beach communities, with advocacy group Better Neighbors LA funding petition fees for residents seeking to regulate the industry.

Raphael Samuel was a British historian who developed a unique approach to historical research, focusing on "people's history" and using primary sources to explore the experiences of marginalized groups. His work had a significant impact on the field of history, and his legacy continues to be felt through the institutions he founded, including the History Workshop movement and the Raphael ...

The paper explores Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), its definitions, goals, and developmental trajectories, highlighting the need for responsible approaches to achieve AGI. It outlines requisite capability frameworks, alignment technologies, and potential pathways towards AGI in various domains to foster collective comprehension and public discussions among researchers and practitioners.