Warp is a Python framework for high-performance simulation and graphics, allowing for efficient kernel code compilation on CPU or GPU, with support for spatial computing, physics simulation, and machine learning. It provides a rich set of primitives and is designed for use in physics simulation, perception, robotics, and geometry processing.

Starting a presentation with background information can be boring, so swap the first two slides to grab the audience's attention with a problem or challenge. This technique, inspired by a writing method, can engage both technical and non-technical listeners and encourage them to co-engineer along with the presentation.

Jim Storer, a high school student in 1969, created the first Lunar Landing game, which simulated a moon landing and required players to optimize fuel burn to land gently. The game had a bug, a missing "divide by two" in the code, which was only recently discovered and fixed, revealing the impressive numerical computing and physics involved in the game.

Microsoft is updating the Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs, shifting from a broad preview to a Windows Insider Program preview, to ensure quality and security. The feature will be available soon, with additional security protections and user controls.

The sun's magnetic field is set to flip polarity, marking the halfway point of solar maximum, with the last flip occurring in 2013. The reversal is driven by sunspots and is a gradual process that takes around 1-2 years to complete, with no significant effects on Earth.

The article discusses the concept of a "Land Value Tax" (LVT) in the context of virtual worlds, where land-like assets are scarce and valuable. The author proposes various methods for implementing an LVT, including auctions, self-assessment, and "blood taxes," to encourage players to make the best use of their land and prevent speculation.

H.264 is a video compression codec that uses various techniques such as lossy compression, chroma subsampling, and motion estimation to reduce the size of video files, making it a ubiquitous standard in internet video, Blu-ray, and other applications. The codec uses a combination of spatial and temporal compression techniques to achieve a remarkable reduction in file size, from 1.2 GB to 175 ...

The author discusses the potential of granting existing AI models "search" capabilities, which would allow them to think for longer periods and potentially revolutionize various fields, including medicine and research. The author argues that search capabilities could be added to existing models, such as GPT-4, without requiring massive increases in model size or training data.

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The article discusses various representations of 3D rotations, including rotation matrices, Euler angles, quaternions, and axis-angle rotations. It also introduces the exponential and logarithmic maps for converting between these representations, which are essential for interpolating between rotations.

OpenAI appointed Paul M. Nakasone, former NSA head, to its board of directors. Nakasone will join the Safety and Security Committee, sparking concerns about the potential impact on individual rights.

A fungus, Parengyodontium album, can break down polyethylene plastic when exposed to UV radiation from sunlight, and researchers believe many more plastic-degrading fungi may exist in deeper ocean layers. The fungus breaks down plastic at a rate of 0.05% per day, and its carbon dioxide emissions are equivalent to those of human breathing.

Poor sleep disrupts a crucial brain signal linked to long-term memory, and even a night of normal sleep after poor sleep isn't enough to fix the issue. The study suggests that sleep disruption could be used to prevent traumatic memories from entering long-term storage, which could be useful for people with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Self-hosting an Llama-3 model on a 4-GPU setup costs around $0.01 per 1M tokens, taking 5.5 years to break even, compared to ChatGPT's $1 per 1M tokens. Self-hosting hardware can undercut ChatGPT's prices, but requires managing and scaling own hardware.

The Sounds of the Forest project collects and shares woodland sounds worldwide, creating an open-source library for anyone to use. The project supports artists in responding to these sounds, with the results showcased at the Timber Festival 2021 in the National Forest.

A supplier for Boeing and Airbus sold titanium components with fake documentation, raising concerns about the structural integrity of some planes. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the issue, which comes amid scrutiny of Boeing and the aviation industry following recent mishaps and safety issues.

Apple has announced a new AI system called Apple Intelligence, which includes a multi-model AI system that can be used across various devices, enabling automation, information retrieval, and generation in a privacy-conscious way. The system uses a combination of core model performance, adapter and on-device strategy, and alignment strategies to provide personalized AI interactions and make ...

The user discusses designing an HTTP server library in Zig, focusing on memory management using an ArenaAllocator to free allocations and reusing memory for performance. They also implement a custom allocator that falls back to an ArenaAllocator when the primary allocator is full, allowing for efficient memory management and reusing allocations.

POSIX.1-2024 defines a standard operating system interface and environment for application developers and system implementors. The standard comprises four volumes: Base Definitions, System Interfaces, Shell and Utilities, and Rationale (Informative).

The author, who started Sentry, expresses disappointment with OpenTelemetry, citing its lack of focus, too many goals, and poor design, which has led to a lack of adoption and confusion among developers. The author proposes a solution, suggesting that OpenTelemetry focus on tracing and span annotations, and that vendors like Sentry should be able to piggyback on OpenTelemetry while ...

German consumers are likely being deceived by non-existent climate protection projects in China, with millions of euros in funding from the THG-Quote. The German government has stopped funding these projects and is now calling for an independent German control mission in China to investigate the alleged fraud.

Japan passes law requiring Apple to allow third-party app stores and payment providers on iPhones, aiming to curb tech dominance and promote competition. The law will be enforced within 18 months, with non-compliance punishable by fines up to 30% of relevant turnover.

NVIDIA announced Nemotron-4 340B, a family of open models for generating synthetic data for training large language models. The models are optimized for NVIDIA NeMo and TensorRT-LLM, allowing developers to generate high-quality training data for custom LLMs.

CoffeePie, a father, used spaced repetition with his children to teach them reading and math from a young age, resulting in his daughter reading at a high school level and his son showing advanced math skills. The father, a former physics professor, notes that some of the effect may be genetic, but he credits Anki with giving his children an advantage in learning.

Effect is a TypeScript library that provides a solid foundation for building applications, offering composable primitives, error handling, and tracing, making it easy to build robust and scalable applications. It's designed to be used in production, with a focus on performance, concurrency, and observability, making it a great tool for developers to create high-quality applications.

Vercel has supported over 700 teams and individuals with $2M in credits, including popular open-source projects and non-profits. Individuals can still get started building on Vercel for free, with usage guidelines available.

Apple may face EU charges under digital law. FT offers digital access to journalism with optional subscription plans.

Japanese addresses are unique in that streets don't have names, but blocks do, and buildings are numbered in order of age. In Japan, mailing addresses typically consist of province, city, district number, block number, and building number, with no street names.

AI has assimilated major tech companies, replacing thought with statistics. Instead of thinking less, we should use AI to think more and grow.

Weightlifting and resistance training can improve brain health by regulating metabolic balance and promoting immune balance, with benefits including improved brain function, reduced risk of depression and Alzheimer's disease, and increased insulin sensitivity. To incorporate weightlifting into a routine, start light, consider working with a trainer, and prioritize exercises that engage the ...

The researcher discovered several vulnerabilities in MediaTek's kernel drivers, including a race condition in the JPEG decoding driver that can lead to a use-after-free vulnerability, and exploited it to achieve arbitrary read and write primitives. The researcher then used these primitives to exploit the vulnerability and gain root access on the device.

A rare 1980 TV commercial for the "Time-Out" Game & Watch series, licensed by Mego, has been digitized and restored from a 16mm film reel. The commercial, featuring a revised version, showcases the game as an "electronic sport" for the on-the-go yuppie generation of the 80s.

Boeing and Airbus may have used titanium sold with fake documents, triggering a Federal Aviation Administration investigation. The FAA is investigating allegations that the companies used titanium with falsified records, which could compromise the safety of their planes.

Oracle is shutting down its ads business due to declining revenue, which fell to $300 million in the 2024 fiscal year. The company's bet on the advertising industry was undermined by Meta's data restrictions and GDPR, leading to a decline in revenue and the eventual shutdown of its advertising business.

Inkdown is a Markdown reading, editing, and sharing tool that combines rich text editing with Markdown syntax conversion and habits, allowing for efficient note-taking and document sharing. It features advanced table operations, code highlighting, and automatic file path linking, making it a convenient and user-friendly tool for document creation and management.

Hi everyone, i made an experimental nix flake to automatically package all brew casks for nix. It probably won’t work with all casks but it has the benefit of being a fully nix expression compared to nix-darwin’s homebrew module where you just specify the name (and it uses homebrew to install it), feel free to try it out 🙂

Firefox Desktop development will switch from Mercurial to Git, with a planned 6-month migration process. The transition will involve two components: developer-facing changes first, followed by backend infrastructure migration, with Mercurial support being removed from workstations.

Clearview AI, a facial recognition startup, agreed to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit, offering a 23% stake in the company to Americans whose faces are in its database. The settlement is valued at $52 million and allows claimants to receive a cut of the company's future profits or revenue.

Germany saw 5,209 companies file for bankruptcy in Q1 2024, a 26.5% increase from 2023. Experts predict 20,000 corporate insolvencies this year, with the transport and warehousing sector most affected.

SoftBank Corp. has developed AI technology that alters angry voices into calm ones to reduce stress on call center operators. The technology, which uses AI voice-processing technology, changes the pitch and inflection of voices to soften their tone, aiming to alleviate the psychological burden on operators.

The Orange FM is a Game Boy cartridge under development, allowing users to play FM radio on their Game Boy handhelds. It supports various antenna options, frequency ranges, and spacing options, but is not suitable for beginners due to its complex circuit boards and soldering requirements.

You're a senior dev concerned about the decreasing demand for your niche and seeking tech stacks/technologies to focus on for future employability. You prefer specific answers, excluding general advice like "focus on AI".

The author has tried various programming languages, including C, C++, Rust, and Zig, and has found that Rust is his go-to language for systems programming due to its memory safety and productivity. However, he is still considering switching to Zig, which he likes, but is waiting for a book to learn the language and for the ecosystem to mature.

OpenAI announces Paul M. Nakasone, a retired US Army general and former NSA director, as its newest board member. Nakasone joins other board members to contribute to OpenAI's efforts to strengthen cybersecurity and develop AI for good.

Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit led to removal of over 500,000 books, including 1,300 banned and challenged books, from lending due to a court injunction. The Internet Archive is appealing the decision and fighting to restore access to these books for patrons.

People are opting for lower-tech devices and analogue media to reduce distractions and reconnect with the physical world, driven by concerns over screen time's impact on mental and physical health. The trend is fueled by young people's suspicion of data-harvesting tech and a desire for more intentional communication and a sense of embodied reality.

The Sustain ecosystem has launched a new podcast, OSS for Climate, to explore the intersection of open source and environmental sustainability, highlighting individuals and projects working on climate action and sustainability. The podcast aims to bridge the gap in discussions about how open source can drive climate action and sustainability, featuring interviews with experts and projects ...

Costco plans to build a new store in Los Angeles' Baldwin Village neighborhood, using modular housing and avoiding the traditional review process through California's AB2011 legislation. The example highlights the impact of regulations on urban development, illustrating how rules shape the form and supply of housing in cities.

A major lunar standstill will occur in September 2024 and March 2025, where the moon rises and sets at its most extreme northerly and southerly positions on the horizon. This event will cause the moon to appear in a different position in the sky and stay visible for longer periods, making it a unique celestial event for skywatchers.

Terry A Davis created TempleOS, an operating system, despite struggling with severe mental illness. The author analyzed TempleOS, focusing on the boot sector and bootloader, and discovered unique design decisions and creative coding.

The document discusses the evaluation of the most beneficial passenger brace position in airplanes with non-breakover seats installed, including the testing of different seat back types and occupant positions to assess injury risks. The study used a Hybrid III ATD to assess head and leg injury risks in various scenarios, including the use of a Y-belt and different seat back types.

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Computer scientists and academics argue that machines may become as large as humans, but seven distinct arguments show it's impossible. Machines will not exceed human size due to various reasons.

The author argues that true defamation, or the act of damaging someone's reputation with accurate information, is a wrong and should be recognized as such, rather than being excluded from the category of wrongful defamation. The author challenges the prevailing view that defamation is only wrongful when it is false, and argues that true defamation can be harmful and unjust, particularly in ...

YouTube is testing a new method to embed ads directly into video streams, making them indistinguishable from content and bypassing ad-blockers. This "server-side ad injection" approach is part of YouTube's broader crackdown on ad-blocking and aims to enhance the visibility and effectiveness of ad campaigns.

The author published a color guessing game, Guess My RGB, on their website, but it was unexpectedly shared on Hacker News, leading to a large number of hits. The game's discovery was facilitated by an RSS feed, which was likely accessed by a feed reader before the game was posted on HN.

The website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks, and the action taken triggered the security solution. The user was blocked and can email the site owner to report the issue, including what they were doing when the page came up.

Kyoo is a self-hosted video streaming service that needs to transcode videos on the fly to ensure compatibility with various clients and devices, while also allowing for automatic quality switching and seamless playback. To achieve this, Kyoo uses FFmpeg to generate HLS streams, which involves segmenting the video into smaller chunks, specifying video codecs, and aligning keyframes to ensure ...

Apple has announced its entry into the generative AI market with Apple Intelligence, but it will only be available to iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max users in the US, excluding over 90% of current iPhone users. The new system includes features like summarizing documents and suggesting answers to messages, but it will not be available on older iPhones, iPads, or Apple Watches.

The user predicts that the demand for software engineers will increase due to the growth of generative AI, leading to more accessible and creative software development. However, the user also acknowledges that the current skill-set may decrease in demand, and the next technical skill-set may emerge, requiring adaptability and creativity in software engineering.

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Ian McEwan paid tribute to Martin Amis at a memorial service, highlighting Amis's love of language and his ability to create joy through his writing. The article argues that language is the most important aspect of a writer's craft, and that the joy of language is often lost in critical debates about the state of fiction.

Two top leaders from San Francisco digital health startup Done Global were arrested and charged with a $100 million fraud scheme to illegally distribute Adderall and other stimulants over the internet. The scheme allegedly led to the overdose deaths of multiple customers and the executives face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

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Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. A US judge rejected Google's request to settle a monopoly case, allowing the trial to proceed in September.

The Kaprekar routine is a simple arithmetic procedure that rapidly converges to the fixed point 6174 when applied to four-digit numbers, with the process being surprisingly rapid and having a unique fixed point. The routine's behavior can be visualized and analyzed using various methods, including 100x100 grids and graph theory, which reveal interesting patterns and structures that contribute ...

Scale's success is attributed to hiring the best people, with talent being the #1 input metric, and the company's guiding principle is MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence. The company prioritizes meritocracy, rejecting bias and stereotypes, and believes that a merit-based hiring process naturally yields a diverse range of backgrounds and perspectives.

A Southwest Airlines flight narrowly avoided crashing into the ocean off Hawaii after weather conditions forced pilots to bypass a landing attempt. The Boeing 737 Max 8 jet briefly dropped at an abnormally high rate before the crew pulled up to avoid disaster, with no injuries reported.

Dan, a modified version of ChatGPT, has become popular among Chinese women who are dissatisfied with their real-world dating experiences, offering emotional support and a sense of wellbeing. The AI, created by an American student, has evolved beyond its initial design and is now being used by thousands of women who are drawn to its idealized and respectful behavior.

PeerDB is building a fast and simple way to replicate data from Postgres to other data stores using Postgres Change Data Capture (CDC) and Logical Decoding, addressing common issues and quirks in the process. The company has implemented various optimizations and workarounds to improve the reliability and efficiency of logical decoding, including handling long-running transactions, schema ...

The project is a beta port of Andrej Karpathy's llm.c to Mojo, with basic functionality but subject to bugs and unfinished features. Future updates will focus on optimizing Mojo's capabilities and providing solid benchmarks for performance comparisons.

Generative AI will not replace the need for junior programmers, as software engineering is an apprenticeship industry that requires hands-on learning and growth over several years. Hiring engineers is about composing teams with a range of skill levels, as diverse teams are more productive and enjoyable, with junior engineers learning from more experienced colleagues.

Monte Markley, a geologist, and his wife Anna, allowed Charm Industrial to test their pyrolyzer on their farm in Kansas, which converts biomass into bio-oil that can be stored underground, potentially removing carbon from the atmosphere. Charm Industrial, a company founded by Peter Reinhardt, aims to remove gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere by converting biomass into bio-oil and storing ...

Framework now supports JSX rendering with React, allowing for reusable stateful components and React hooks. It also improves inline expressions, parsing, and rendering, making them more robust and easier to use.

DeepComputing has released the DC-Roma RISC-V Laptop II, the first laptop to run Ubuntu out of the box, featuring a SoC from SpacemiT with an 8-core CPU and NPU. The laptop is a milestone for RISC-V, offering a full Linux experience in a regular laptop, but its AI capabilities are limited by its 2 TOPS NPU.

Handwriting helps children learn symbols and remember information better than typing, as it requires more attention and processing in the brain. Additionally, writing by hand can aid in remembering information, such as shopping lists or lecture notes, and can even improve learning and retention of new information.

Google detected unusual traffic from your computer network, possibly due to malware or automated requests. Solve the CAPTCHA to continue using Google services, or ask your administrator for help if you share your network connection.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made a mistake in a dissenting opinion, citing a claim that having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood of a Black newborn's survival, which is wildly implausible. The claim is based on a misinterpreted study, and a more accurate summary would be that a study found Black infant mortality rates to be half as high with Black physicians than with White ...

The Snapdragon X Elite processor in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge laptop has underperformed in benchmarks, scoring lower than the iPhone 12 mini and Qualcomm's own tests. The processor's single-core score was 1829, while multi-core was 11379, with gaming performance also sub-par.

The blog post discusses the implementation of the Sequential Search algorithm in the Deduce language, including its specification, implementation, and proof. The algorithm searches for the first or last occurrence of an element in a linked list, and its correctness is proven using the write-test-prove approach.

Dark fibre refers to unused optical fibre capacity that can be leased from network service providers, offering a new market for unique private services. The excess capacity was created during the telecom boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and it has since been used to create privately operated optical fibre networks for high-performance networking.

The US economy has surpassed the European economy, with a nearly twice-as-large GDP and lower average income and wages. European leaders propose solutions to address the issue, including a more united and strategic Europe, but face challenges in implementing these solutions due to populist backlash.

Canal+ took French courts to block pirate sports streaming sites, and ISPs were ordered to block access. The court also ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to block access to the sites, citing a French law allowing rightsholders to demand measures to prevent piracy.

NVIDIA releases Nemotron-4 340B model family under open access license, performing competitively on evaluation benchmarks. Models are designed for generating synthetic data, with over 98% of data used in alignment process synthetically generated, and open-sourced pipeline for further research.

Lamini, a company co-founded by Andrew Ng, has developed a new methodology called Memory Tuning that can reduce hallucinations in large language models by 95%. This methodology uses a mixture of experts (MoME) to embed specific data into models, allowing for more accurate and reliable information retrieval.

Physician and historian Howard Markel's book "Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin" explores the two years surrounding the publication of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" and the subsequent debate between Darwin and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Markel's book aims to set the record straight on the events surrounding the publication and the mythic conflict between Darwin and Wilberforce.

Yaak will not be open-source, instead opting for a closed-core model with a plugin system to achieve similar benefits without the burden. The author argues that open-source projects often struggle with community management, contributor burnout, and maintenance, making a plugin system a more feasible and effective approach.

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Apple partnered with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into Siri, with Apple providing exposure to hundreds of millions of its devices in return for the partnership. The deal allows Apple to offer advanced AI features on its devices while maintaining user privacy and security.

The author of Sidebar, a daily design newsletter, is taking a break due to lack of time and resources, citing the need to prioritize other projects and family responsibilities. The author is considering selling the site to a trusted entity in the web design community, but wants to ensure the audience's trust is not betrayed by selling their email addresses.