The text describes a visual representation of binary code, with characters moving and interacting in various ways to form the input data. The output appears as a glitchy, distorted display that slowly resolves into readable text.

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner accused CEO Sam Altman of lying to the board multiple times, including withholding information about ChatGPT's release and the company's ownership structure. The board ultimately voted to oust Altman, but he was reinstated as CEO less than a week later amid staff threats to quit and speculation about Microsoft poaching his team.

APIs redirecting HTTP to HTTPS can be harmful due to silent failures and lack of state maintenance. A fail-fast approach should be adopted, disabling HTTP or returning clear error responses for unencrypted requests to ensure developers notice and fix accidental use of http:// URLs.

Let's reproduce the GPT-2 (124M) in llm.c (~4,000 lines of C/CUDA) in 90 minutes for $20. The 124M model is the smallest model in the GPT-2 series released by OpenAI in 2019, and is actually qu...

Llama3-V, a multimodal model built on top of Llama3, offers a 10-20% boost over the current SOTA and comparable performance to larger models like GPT4v. The model uses SigLIP for image embeddings and an extra projection module to align them with textual embeddings, achieving efficient pretraining and finetuning in under $500.

The author believes that copywriting has become too self-aware and pretentious, using puns and attempts at humor to create a fake persona for companies. They also share their experience creating an app called Grooved that helps calibrate turntables, which they think is unique in its simplicity and lack of data collection.

WordPress has turned 21 and its creator reflects on elements that made it successful, including fun blogging, dynamic websites, and community engagement. The author emphasizes the importance of pushing boundaries, providing good marketplace dynamics, and staying close to end-users while maintaining zero tolerance for spam.

A massive leak of API documentation from Google's Search division has been shared, revealing previously unknown details about how Google collects and uses data to rank search results. The leak includes information on NavBoost, a system that gathers clickstream data to improve search engine results, as well as other ranking factors such as user intent and brand recognition.

Openkoda is an open-source project that provides a flexible and scalable approach to building enterprise applications with dynamic entities, multi-tenancy models, and built-in event handlers. It offers various features such as time tracking, insurance policy management, and component import/export for easy development and deployment.

Mobifree is an alternative mobile ecosystem that prioritizes privacy, democratic approach, and open-source solutions to break free from Big Tech's dominance. F-Droid, a long-standing champion of user and developer rights, will play a major role in creating this new ecosystem by developing a decentralized app distribution system for Android users.

AdFlush is a machine learning model that detects and blocks malicious web content, outperforming existing methods with an F1 score of 0.98. It reduces computational overhead by 56% and memory usage by 80%, making it a practical solution for real-world browsers.

The act of naming something is often a form of propaganda, and this concept applies to nonprofits, which are often given names that do not accurately reflect their true nature or activities. The article argues that many nonprofits are actually corrupt and inefficient organizations that prioritize profits over public good, and that the outsourcing of government services to these organizations ...

The gh-dash GitHub CLI extension displays a customizable dashboard with pull requests and issues filtered by user-defined criteria, using a config.yml file for configuration. The extension supports multiple dashboards, custom keybindings, and theme customization, including color schemes and font selection.

The "leaky pipeline" concept, where each step in a process has a non-normal distribution, can help explain why software estimation is often inaccurate. This theory suggests that many processes are dominated by learning and uncertainty, making it difficult to predict outcomes and justifying the emphasis on relevant experience and tooling in job applications.

The thesis proposes a novel user space driver written in Rust, which eliminates kernel-based I/O path overheads and achieves comparable performance to SPDK while providing a simplified API and less code. The driver is designed to simplify access to high-performance storage technologies, enabling easier assessment of individual NVMe features and I/O path optimisations.

Tinygrad has made significant progress, with experimental backends for AMD and NV GPUs reducing Python time and improving multi-gpu use cases. However, using tinygrad in a conda env on macOS with the METAL backend can cause issues.

Michael, a European cryptocurrency owner, lost access to his $2 million worth of bitcoin due to a corrupted password file and was unable to recover it until Joe Grand, a hardware hacker, used reverse engineering techniques to exploit a flaw in RoboForm's password generation algorithm.

File0 is the easiest way to manage files in serverless apps. What used to take hours to build, now takes minutes.

Transformers' poor performance on arithmetic tasks is addressed by adding position embeddings to each digit, enabling architectural modifications and achieving state-of-the-art accuracy on 100-digit addition problems. This improvement also unlocks gains in numeracy and multi-step reasoning tasks like sorting and multiplication.

Blink Code is an iOS app that integrates VSCode with remote development environments, allowing users to access and edit files on multiple devices. The app supports connections to Code Server, GitHub Codespaces, GitPod, and local projects, offering a seamless experience for developers working remotely or on-the-go.

The user reflects on their ideal job and lifestyle, considering options such as working on independent software ventures, training as a musician, and contributing to society through service or creative pursuits. However, they also express skepticism towards grandiose plans for changing the world and instead advocate for living sustainably and authentically without exploiting others or the environment.

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman admitted to having a provision in employee exit documents that allowed the company to claw back vested equity, but claimed he didn't know about it until recently. However, documentation reviewed by Vox reveals that several executives, including Altman, signed documents outlining the provision and its implications for former employees.

A leak of internal Google documents reveals details about how the search algorithm operates, contradicting public statements made by Google representatives. The leaked documents outline what data Google collects and uses, including Chrome data and author information, which may impact search rankings.

The user celebrated their 20-year blogging anniversary, starting with a self-written blog software in 2004 and later switching to Ruby on Rails. They have continued to blog infrequently, sharing personal thoughts, technical insights, and experiences from their life.

The author, Takeshi Yoneda, will write a series of blog posts about runtime code generation and execution in Go, focusing on the concept's application to WebAssembly and its unique challenges. The first post introduces the idea and provides a simple demo of generating machine code at runtime using Go's assembly language.

California's Public Utilities Commission is set to vote on a proposal that could effectively end community solar projects, which provide clean energy to low-income residents and renters. The commission's decision has sparked concerns from experts and lawmakers, who argue it will undermine California's ability to meet its climate goals and create more affordable clean energy options for all residents.

Researchers at the University of Bern have successfully dated a 7,000-year-old prehistoric settlement in northern Greece using cosmic rays and dendrochronology. The team used high-energy particles from space to create a reliable chronological reference point, allowing them to precisely date the settlement's building activities between 5328 and 5140 BC.

Gleam v1.2.0 has been released, focusing on improving the language server and developer experience with features like fault-tolerant compilation, improved error messages, and enhanced code formatting options. The release also includes various bug fixes and improvements to Gleam's syntax, such as refined use expression errors and warnings for redundant tuple wrappers in case expressions.

Shadama is a programming system designed for high school students to explore scientific concepts, using a turtles and patches abstraction similar to StarLogo, with features like liveness and support for large numbers of objects. The language allows users to create simulations by writing methods that can be applied to breeds of turtles, which can interact with each other and their environment ...

Ryan Salame, a former high-ranking official at Alameda Research and FTX, was sentenced to 90 months in prison for conspiracy to make unlawful political contributions and operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. The sentence follows Salame's guilty plea and is part of a larger investigation into illegal activities by FTX executives.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings plans to deploy a remote-controlled robot to retrieve melted fuel debris from Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 reactor by October, over two years behind schedule. The test aims to remove less than 3 grams of debris and is crucial for decommissioning work, with about 880 tons of highly radioactive fuel remaining inside the damaged reactors.

The Sulfur Transport and Deposition Model (STEM) is an influential air quality model that has been used for decades to study the transport, transformation, and removal of atmospheric pollutants and inform emissions reduction strategies. The model has evolved over time to cover a broader range of key air pollutants and has contributed to hundreds of peer-reviewed publications, supporting ...

The code uses a CH32V003 microcontroller to recognize spoken digits from analog microphone input, achieving 90% accuracy with limited storage and processing power. It employs traditional MFCC feature extraction and comparison against pre-recorded spoken digits, with optimizations for low-end hardware constraints.

Wasmi v0.32, an efficient and versatile WebAssembly interpreter, has been released with significant updates including a new execution engine that utilizes register-based bytecode, improving execution performance by up to 5 times. The update also includes lazy translation, improved startup performance, and other features making it well-suited for embedded environments and plugin systems.

Future Ventures' HQ has a museum with Lunar Module parts, Moon and Mars rock displays, and Apollo flown spacecraft. The curator, Steve, requests additional information on the items to improve the display and can be contacted at [email protected].

The Canon Cat, a unique all-in-one computer developed by Jef Raskin and Information Appliance, Inc. (IAI), was released in 1987 with a built-in word processor, modem, and telecommunications capabilities. The machine's design aimed to provide an accessible and functional computing experience for everyday users, but it ultimately failed due to poor marketing and internal conflicts within IAI.

The user has been serving 429s to clients who hit their feed too often, and despite some positive results from bug reports and feature requests, they still encounter issues with incorrect If-Modified-Since headers and hard-coded request intervals. The user proposes a "feed reader correctness score" system to track and report on feed reader behavior, but notes that it would require commitment ...

The article aims to clarify quantum computing by cutting through jargon and revealing its true potential and limitations. It's written for readers with varying levels of curiosity and need, aiming to inform and inspire them about the quantum future.

The user seeks a well-written book on Windows systems programming, preferably with exercises, and considers using Nim or C/C++ languages. They suggest exploring.NET languages like C# for ease of use and abundant documentation, but also acknowledge the importance of learning low-level system programming concepts.

R's S3 and S4 OOP systems are being unified with S7, which enables functional OOP systems like generics dispatching and modeling objects as collections. Four patches have been integrated into base R to make it easier for packages to implement these features, benefiting interoperability between different OOP systems.

The diverging diamond interchange, invented by Gilbert Chlewicki, allows drivers to make left turns without conflicting with oncoming traffic, making it safer and more efficient than traditional intersections. With over 200 installations across the US, this innovative design has reduced crashes by 40-50% and eliminated conflict points between pedestrians and vehicles.

Steve Jobs' approach to office design aimed to facilitate serendipitous encounters between employees, but this strategy may have negatively impacted productive innovation due to increased communication channels. The trade-off between productivity and alignment is inevitable, and companies should actively choose their balance rather than being passive, as both options have drawbacks.

Paris's underground quarries have a culinary legacy, including the cultivation of unique Paris mushrooms. The mushrooms' flavor and terroir are attributed to their growth in limestone quarries, but they are no longer protected as a distinct product.

The author visited the World's Biggest Bookstore in 1999, a sprawling 64,000-square-foot space with 17 miles of shelves, and left with four books they had always wanted to read. The bookstore reminded them of Honest Ed's, encouraging exploration and discovery among its vast selection.

I'm excited to join to continue the superalignment mission! My new team will work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research. If you're interested in joining, my dms are open.

A proposal to change the default annotation processing policy in javac from implicitly running processors on the class path to requiring explicit configuration or request will be implemented in JDK 23. The old behavior can still be requested by including "-proc:full" when invoking javac, and support for this option has been backported to earlier release trains and Maven Compiler plugin versions.

The user misses their old Linux and BSD systems, but has been using MacBooks since 2012 due to work and personal reasons. They are frustrated with modern operating systems, citing issues such as constant background activity, unresponsive UI elements, and excessive bloatware.

Orcas, especially young males, have been ramming and sinking luxury yachts in European waters due to their natural playfulness and curiosity. The behavior is not aggressive but rather a fad or playful activity that has spread through the pod, with scientists noting that it's similar to other unusual behaviors observed in orcas.

YouTube and Google are urged to protect Russian independent media and human rights organizations from Kremlin censorship, as several videos were blocked at Russia's request. The civil society groups ask YouTube and Google to prioritize freedom of expression and not become tools for political censorship in Russia.

The Turbo9 is a pipelined microprocessor IP that executes a superset of the Motorola 6809 instruction set, achieving high performance while balancing area and power. It's an active research project aiming to create a compact and efficient 16-bit microprocessor for programmable control applications, with version v0.9 currently available but still requiring completion of some features.

The book provides an introduction to electromagnetic waves and antennas, covering topics such as wave propagation, reflection, transmission, and antenna design, with MATLAB examples. The book also includes various functions for calculating antenna gain, radiation patterns, and impedance matching networks.

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The authors argue that happiness is not just about avoiding negative emotions and seeking positivity, but rather it's about being true to oneself and finding meaning in life. They propose that happiness can be achieved by aligning one's goals with their values, cultivating empathy and compassion, and embracing the unknown, among other factors.

Link-local IPv6 addresses are used by devices to communicate with each other on the same network, and can be useful for debugging and troubleshooting. The article discusses how to use link-local addresses to transfer files between computers without prior configuration, using techniques such as TCP hole-punching and netcat.

Nalanda, an ancient Buddhist university in Bihar, India, was founded in 427 CE and flourished for over seven centuries as a center of learning and intellectual Buddhism. The university's legacy includes significant contributions to mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and philosophy that continue to influence Asian culture today.

DBus is used by systemd, and busctl is a program to interact with DBus; an interface is identified by a name, such as org.freedesktop.login1.Manager, and objects are identified by object paths like /org/freedesktop/login1.

Adding users to the docker group grants them full access to the Docker daemon, effectively giving them root access on the host. This vulnerability can be exploited by writing a setuid root-owned binary to a mounted volume, allowing an attacker to gain root privileges on the host without needing any special permissions.

La Niña, which can contribute to hurricane formation along US coasts, is expected to replace El Niño and affect global temperatures. The transition may lead to a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season and droughts in some regions, while also impacting water supplies and fire seasons worldwide.

Temperatures in Pakistan's Sindh province reached 52.2°C, the highest reading of the summer, amid an ongoing heat wave likely caused by human-driven climate change. The extreme heat has affected businesses and daily life in Mohenjo Daro, with locals seeking relief through baths and staying indoors or near water.

The author argues that event-driven applications using the choreography pattern are complex to implement and maintain, and instead recommends an orchestration model where a central service manages business process flows. Infinitic is a framework that simplifies adoption of this orchestrator pattern by providing boilerplate code, allowing developers to focus on implementing business logic ...

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T-Mobile plans to acquire most of U.S. Cellular for $4.4 billion, using its wireless spectrum to improve rural coverage and allowing customers to keep their current plans or switch to T-Mobile. The deal will give U.S. Cellular customers a strong anchor tenant for at least 15 years after closing, with the company retaining some spectrum and towers while leasing space on additional towers to T-Mobile.

The underscore is not a valid character for hostnames, and using it can cause issues with accessing services on TCP/IP networks. To resolve these problems, computer names should be changed to exclude underscores and only use alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and periods.

GCM's 96-bit nonce limit can be bypassed by using random nonces, but this approach has limitations and is not recommended due to NIST guidelines. However, it is technically possible to use random 128-bit nonces with AES-GCM, allowing for more messages before reaching the collision probability limit.

The N+1 query problem occurs when an application makes multiple database queries to load related data, leading to poor performance and scalability issues. A two-phase load and render approach can be used to mitigate this problem by loading all necessary data upfront and reusing it for rendering, ensuring predictable performance even with complex relationships between resources.

The website was created by Sergey Slotin and Tinkoff Generation, a nonprofit educational organization that trains Russian Olympiad finalists. The English version hosts an updated draft of "Algorithms for Modern Hardware", while the Russian version features course materials used by the organization.

Meta's growth strategy prioritizes metrics over user experience, allowing harmful content to thrive and manipulating users for profit. The company's culture is rotten, with Mark Zuckerberg making decisions that prioritize numerical dominance over human well-being, leading to the decay of Facebook and Instagram.

Music can affect our mealtime experience, and researchers are exploring how sound can directly enhance and complement tasting, chewing, and swallowing. A developing field called "sonic seasoning" suggests that there may be a direct link between our experience of sound and taste, with some people even experiencing phantom taste sensations triggered by specific sounds.

Gemini 1.5 Pro and Advanced results are out, ranking #2 behind GPT-4o, while Gemini 1.5 Flash ranks #9, outperforming Llama-3-70b and nearing GPT-4-0125. The new versions show significant improvements over their April counterparts, with Flash's cost-effectiveness and context length making it a market game-changer.

Bloom filters can significantly improve query performance for high-cardinality data in Parquet files, with moderate parameters (FPP of 0.01 and NDV of 1,000) yielding optimal pruning efficiency at a storage cost of 2 KB to 8 KB per column per row group. The effectiveness of Bloom filters was demonstrated through experiments on large datasets with cardinalities ranging from 100k to 1M, showing ...

Coherent's UK microchip plant, which manufactures components for Apple's iPhone Face ID system, faces potential closure after losing its main customer due to changes in the next iPhone version. The facility has been undergoing a strategic review and may be sold or undergo new technologies to ensure its viability.

Researchers have discovered that the unique community of microorganisms on an individual's skin leaves traces on their clothing, which can be used to identify them. This "microbe fingerprint" can persist for months and has potential applications in forensic investigations, such as identifying individuals involved in crimes or reconstructing events at crime scenes.

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The author, a teacher and expert in programming, discusses how students are increasingly interested in using ChatGPT to get ahead in their programming jobs, but notes that this technology will not replace human programmers entirely. Instead, it will change the nature of programming work by shifting more time towards investigation and debugging tasks, requiring programmers to develop new ...

Star Citizen has raised over $700 million, with revenue publicly available on its website. The game's developer, Cloud Imperium Games, aims to launch Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 in 2024 and eventually Star Citizen 1.0, but no release date or window has been announced.

The Cyrillic alphabet, used by over 250 million people, has its own holiday celebrated across Slavonic-speaking states on May 24 and July 5. However, the alphabet's success was not due to its benefits for ordinary Slavs but rather the result of various elites' interests and power struggles throughout history.

A new metamaterial, PMMM, offers transparent glass-like properties with added privacy, cooling capabilities, and self-cleaning features. It can be applied to regular glass surfaces and has been shown to keep rooms 6°C cooler than ambient air while also increasing light transmittance for plants.

The World's First Microprocessor was designed and developed by Steve Geller, Ray Holt, and a team of engineers from 1968-1970 for the US Navy F14A "TomCat" fighter jet. The MOS-LSI chip set, called MP944, was highly integrated and controlled the aircraft's moving surfaces and displayed pilot information.

The author believes pessimism can lead to happiness, either by being correct or pleasantly surprised. They are running a Kickstarter campaign for their book "Run Your Own Mail Server" and hopes it will raise at least $32,500 to allow them to relax.

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit research library, is fighting off an intermittent DDoS cyber-attack that has impacted access to its collections and Wayback Machine. The attack's source is unknown, but it's part of a larger trend of frequent cyber-attacks on libraries and knowledge institutions.

Zoraya ter Beek, a 29-year-old woman with autism and mental illness, ended her life through physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands after a three-year wait. She had been struggling with depression, anxiety, and an unspecified personality disorder since childhood and felt that euthanasia was her only option to end her unbearable suffering.

Temu, a Chinese e-commerce platform, has experienced rapid growth since its launch in 2022, with over 480 million users globally and plans to reach 600 million by the end of 2024. Despite facing challenges such as policy headwinds and increased competition from Amazon and SHEIN, Temu aims to increase its global influence by expanding into new markets and improving its logistics strategy while ...

The adoption of DNSSEC, a security framework for the Domain Name System (DNS), has been slow and lacklustre over the past three decades, with many service operators not investing in supporting its additional costs. The author argues that it may be time to acknowledge that DNSSEC is not going anywhere and instead focus on rethinking its design to make it simpler, faster, and more robust.

Shenandoah is a high-performance low-pause-time garbage collector that operates in 3 or 2 concurrent phases, aiming to achieve pauses under 10ms. It is suitable for applications with constant allocation and older objects, but may not perform well with workloads having short-lived objects or strong generational characteristics.

An F-35 Lightning II aircraft crashed near Albuquerque International Sunport, New Mexico, with the pilot ejecting successfully and being taken to hospital. The crash site shows significant damage, but it's unclear if it was an F-35B or another type of aircraft until further investigation.

Elsevier and McDonald collaborated on the "Computer Monographs" series, publishing 26 volumes from the late-1960s to early-1970s. The existence of an 11th volume in the series remains unclear due to lack of data or potential gaps in information.

Windows 11's market share has dropped below 26% due to issues and bad updates, while Windows 10 has risen to over 70%, making it uncertain whether Windows 11 can succeed as an AI-supported OS. Microsoft may need to accelerate the release of Windows 12 with new features and tools to attract users from Windows 10, potentially ending support for Windows 11.

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SignWave is an automated translator from English to American Sign Language (ASL) that can take audio or text inputs and produce a sign language animation. The project uses OpenAI's Whisper API, ASL Sign Language Dictionary, and MediaPipe Hand Landmarker to recognize speech, collect video demonstrations of ASL words, and animate hands using three.js.

Plan B is a project management tool that simplifies every step, ensuring a hassle-free experience with features like intuitive planning, real-time tracking, and seamless integration. It prioritizes simplicity and structured configurations, focusing on key functionalities for effective project management while allowing for flexibility and user feedback-driven improvements.

Rising sea levels and urban development are accelerating coastal erosion in Southern California, which will increase living costs fivefold by 2050. The study predicts a tripling of erosion rates by 2050, requiring more frequent and costly beach nourishment projects to maintain shorelines.

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Elon Musk's compensation package at Tesla, Inc. is being criticized for its unfair price and flawed process, with some shareholders opposing the ratification proposal and scholars questioning the Board's decision-making. The author argues that the package is excessive, citing metrics such as profits, earnings, and cash flow, and highlights several material omissions in the proxy statement ...

Lisp programmers have used macros to extend their language, inspiring macro notations for other languages. This paper presents a non-trivial example that implements a new construct and motivates the need for tail-calls and optimization in macro-based language extension.

The article compares JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and session tokens for user authentication, highlighting their pros and cons, scalability, security, and implementation complexity. The author prefers using session tokens with a database for managing user sessions due to centralized control over sessions, robust security, and simplicity.

Flutter and Dart have introduced several new features in 2024, including an AI SDK for integrating AI features into Flutter apps, WebAssembly support for high-performance web applications, and experimental macro feature for meta-programming. These features make it easier to build complex web applications with decent performance and integrate AI capabilities, solidifying Flutter's position as ...

OpenAI forms a new safety team led by CEO Sam Altman and two board members, but some AI researchers have expressed concerns about the team's effectiveness due to its close ties to OpenAI's leadership. The team will evaluate and develop processes for ensuring AI safety, but critics argue that it may not address underlying issues given the involvement of those with potential conflicts of interest.

The adoption of DNSSEC, a security framework for securing the Domain Name System (DNS), has been slow and lacklustre over the past three decades, with many service operators not investing in supporting its additional costs. The author argues that it may be time to acknowledge that DNSSEC is not going anywhere and instead focus on rethinking its design to make it simpler, faster, and more robust.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) renamed several waypoints near Donald Trump's waterfront estate in Florida in 2015, following controversy over their names, which included DONLD, TRMMP, and UFIRD. The FAA received a Freedom of Information Act request for records on waypoint renamings since 2015 and provided a list of 368 renamed waypoints, including some with interesting details ...

Nginx misconfigurations can leave websites vulnerable to attacks, and Detectify Crowdsource has detected common issues that can be exploited. The article discusses several types of misconfigurations, including Off-by-slash, using Nginx variables unsafely, and intercepting errors and HTTP headers with proxy_pass.

The US Department of Commerce and other agencies have issued five subpoenas to a company for allegedly shipping chip manufacturing equipment to China in violation of export restrictions. The equipment was shipped from Massachusetts to South Korea and then to SMIC, which made a 7nm processor for Huawei despite being on the US Entity List.

liphas Lévi discussed the mandrake's possible connection to humanity's terrestrial origin, while ancient cultures believed it had medicinal and magical properties. The root's humanoid appearance led to illustrations of bearded men or bushy-haired women with forked legs, and its hallucinogenic properties made it valuable for anesthesia, emetics, and aphrodisiacs.