The article explores the futuristic world of WALL·E, analyzing its design inspirations, from the monorail system to the robots' names and appearances, and highlighting nods to classic sci-fi movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien. The article also delves into the symbolism and themes of the movie, including the contrast between the Axiom's luxurious space travel and the desolate state ...

Server-less virtual machine, networking included, running browser-side in HTML5/WebAssembly. Code in any programming language inside this Linux terminal.

The author, a British diplomat, spent 3 years in North Korea, where they experienced a unique and isolated existence, with limited access to the outside world, but still managed to find ways to cope and even enjoy their time there. Despite the challenges and strict rules, the author found that the experience was not as frightening as working in other "axis of evil" states, and they even ...

The author shares lessons from building financial systems at big tech companies, emphasizing the importance of accuracy, audibility, and timeliness. They provide best practices for avoiding common pitfalls, including using integers, consistent rounding, and delaying currency conversions.

Security researchers from the CCC accessed over 200 million SMS messages from over 200 companies, exposing a vulnerability in two-factor authentication via SMS. The vulnerability allows attackers to intercept SMS messages, and the researchers recommend using alternative methods such as one-time passwords generated in an app or using hardware tokens for more secure authentication.

This document provides a comprehensive introduction to deep learning in physical simulations, covering topics such as physical loss constraints, differentiable simulations, and reinforcement learning, with hands-on code examples in Jupyter notebooks. The text focuses on physics-based deep learning approaches, introducing algorithmic variants and discussing their pros and cons, with a goal of ...

FlashAttention-3 is a new algorithm that speeds up attention on Hopper GPUs by exploiting asynchrony of Tensor Cores and TMA, interleaving block-wise matmul and softmax operations, and leveraging hardware support for FP8 low-precision. This results in a 1.5-2.0x speedup compared to FlashAttention-2, with up to 740 TFLOPS and 75% utilization of H100 GPU's maximum capabilities.

Microsoft closed the email accounts of 20 Palestinians living abroad, including those using Skype to call family in Gaza, without warning, citing term violations. The affected individuals, who have no links to Hamas, accuse Microsoft of unfairly persecuting them and are unable to retrieve emails, contacts, or memories from their accounts.

Shelley Duvall, a US actress known for her roles in films like The Shining, Annie Hall, and Nashville, has died at the age of 75 due to complications from diabetes. Duvall had a distinctive and compelling presence on screen, with a career spanning over five decades, including collaborations with directors Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick.

The article discusses a CPU optimization technique called value speculation, which uses the branch predictor to guess values and remove data dependencies in a tight loop, increasing performance. The technique is demonstrated through a real-world example of summing elements in a linked list, showing a 50-200% speedup in the optimized function compared to the original.

Binance, the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange, migrated from Elasticsearch to Quickwit, a distributed search engine, to manage petabyte-scale log data, achieving significant cost savings and improved log retention. The migration involved overcoming challenges such as scaling, cluster stability, and workload distribution, and resulted in a more efficient and reliable log management solution.

Korvus is an open-source RAG pipeline built on Postgres that unifies the entire retrieval-augmented generation pipeline in a single database query, providing high-performance and customizable search capabilities. It offers SDK support for multiple programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, and Rust, and is powered by efficient SQL queries on a time-tested database platform.

Researchers at the Broad Institute and Whitehead Institute have developed a new gene-silencing tool called CHARMs that can turn off disease-causing genes, including those responsible for prion diseases, and are refining it to be a good candidate for use in human patients. CHARMs work by epigenetic editing, adding a chemical tag to DNA to silence a target gene, and have shown promise in animal ...

A global internet sweep found 75.7% of traders used dark patterns, which deceive or manipulate consumers, and 66.8% used two or more. The sweep, coordinated with the Global Privacy Enforcement Network, evaluated 642 traders' websites and apps based on six OECD indicators, highlighting frequent use of sneaking practices.

The author reflects on the X Window System's stipple pattern, which was a common startup screen in the past, and explores its history, including its introduction in the 1980s and its eventual disappearance in the 2010s. The author also shares their personal experiences with configuring X servers in the past and their observations on the evolution of the X Window System and its ecosystem.

The user created a custom resume system using YAML, HTML, CSS, and Weasyprint to generate a PDF, with automated tooling setup using NixOS and GitHub Actions for reproducibility and live previews. The system allows for easy maintenance and customization of the resume data and presentation, with the option to render different formats and automate the build process.

In this post we are reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c. This is "the GPT-2", the full, 1558M parameter version that was introduced in OpenAI's blog post Better Language Models and their Impli...

eCapture is a tool that captures SSL/TLS text content without a CA certificate using eBPF, supporting Linux and Android kernel versions 4.18 and above. It has 8 modules for plaintext capture and software audits, and can be used with OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSPR, BoringSSL, and GoTLS libraries.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon X1E-80-100 CPU, featuring the Oryon core, offers competitive performance in native applications, but faces challenges in executing x86 code due to binary translation and compatibility issues with the PC ecosystem. To succeed, Qualcomm needs to work with OEMs to deliver competitive prices and encourage developers to create ARM64 native applications, making the ...

AT&T Fiber internet speed dropped from 1 Gbps to 8 Mbps, prompting the user to contact support. After navigating through a chatbot, the user finally spoke with a human representative who ignored the provided data and suggested switching WiFi channels, despite WiFi being disabled on the device.

The user has had mixed experiences with hiring through Hacker News, with some scams and unsuccessful attempts, but also landed two great jobs through the platform. They generally prefer YC companies and early-stage startups, and have had positive experiences with these types of companies.

The Sapien Labs report found that the earlier children get their first smartphone, the worse their mental health is likely to be, with a stronger correlation for girls. The report suggests that delaying the acquisition of smartphones until high school or later may be beneficial for children's mental health, and that parents, schools, and policymakers should consider implementing measures to ...

A relativistic framework is presented to establish a coordinate time reference for the Moon, considering gravitational and kinematic effects on standard clocks. The framework shows that clocks near the Moon's equator tick faster than those near the Earth's equator, with a 56.02 microsecond per day difference over a lunar orbit.

The authors thank various individuals and organizations for their support and comments, including the Columbia Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and the Kauffman Foundation. The paper uses linear panel event studies to estimate and plot causal effects of policy changes, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Science Foundation, and Lynde and Harry Bradley.

Apple's expensive Vision Pro headset has sold only 100,000 units, with sales expected to drop 75% by the end of August, and the company is now focusing on a rumored cheaper headset for a potential revival. The cheaper headset, expected in 2025, may remove the exterior display, reduce the field of view, and use a less-capable chip, and could be tethered to an iPhone or Mac for daily use.

Xata's free tier offers a Postgres database with 15 GB storage, high-availability, and fully managed and monitored by the company, with a cost of around $1-2.5 per month per active database and a tiny cost per inactive database, making it a sustainable and useful option for many use cases.

The "Rulers of the Ancient World" project creates handmade rulers inspired by measurement systems from ancient civilizations, including Egypt, Rome, Japan, and the Indus Valley. Each ruler is made from a specific type of wood and features unique units of measurement, such as the Egyptian cubit, Roman foot, Japanese shaku, and Indian angula, with intricate etchings and hand-planed surfaces.

The AWS Secrets Manager Agent is a client-side HTTP service that retrieves and caches secrets from Secrets Manager, allowing applications to consume secrets directly from the cache without making calls to Secrets Manager. The agent can be installed and configured on various environments, including AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EKS, and can be used to retrieve secrets using a local HTTP ...

SQLite has several quirks, including lack of support for ALTER COLUMN and DROP CONSTRAINT, and no data types on columns, which can lead to unexpected behavior. Despite its limitations, SQLite has some unique features, such as streaming capabilities, but its differences from other databases, like Postgres, can be jarring.

Mandala is a tool that eliminates the effort and code overhead of ML experiment tracking by providing two generic tools: the @op decorator and the ComputationFrame data structure. It allows for efficient iterative development, versioning, and querying of computations, and provides a powerful and simple way to represent, query, and manipulate complex saved computations.

Researchers found nearly half of laboratory-made plasmids had design flaws, including errors in sequences crucial to expressing therapeutic genes, highlighting a lack of knowledge about proper quality control. The study's findings suggest that many scientific papers may have been published with results that are not reproducible due to errors in plasmid design, emphasizing the need for ...

pg_lakehouse now supports Iceberg tables on S3 and Google Cloud Storage, allowing Postgres users to query Iceberg tables like SQL tables. The release replaces DataFusion with DuckDB, which provides better performance and is more familiar to the general developer community, making it a better fit for pg_lakehouse.

In 1924, a group of leading international businessmen formed the Phoebus cartel, a supervisory body that carved up the worldwide incandescent lightbulb market and engineered a shorter life span for lightbulbs to increase sales and profits. The cartel's legacy of planned obsolescence continues to influence the lighting industry today, with the potential for similar practices to emerge in the ...

You're concerned about a USN for Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu 22.04, which has been patched for Ubuntu 18.04 but not for 22.04, due to Canonical's commercial Ubuntu Pro subscription. You're considering downgrading to 20.04 or upgrading to 24.04 to access a patched version, but feel frustrated with the complexity and potential costs.

Research suggests that night owls may have superior cognitive function compared to morning larks, with those getting 7-9 hours of sleep performing best in cognitive tests. However, experts urge caution in interpreting the findings, citing limitations in the study and the need for further research to understand the relationship between sleep patterns and brain function.

It's our time again for a random denial of the access to device storage by google play. I'll appeal of course, however they will likely be slow to respond and have stupid requirements, so it will take a while. (Just as we got more contri...

GitHub's Copilot AI, trained on public source code, sparks controversy over copyright infringement, with some accusing GitHub of using copyleft-licensed code without permission. However, copyright law allows for temporary copying and scraping of content, and machine-generated code like Copilot's output is not eligible for copyright protection, making it a public domain work.

You're an iOS developer looking to create a system to detect your cat Yuri's seizures and send a push notification to your phone when he's having one, as his random seizures can be life-threatening if not treated promptly. You're open to exploring various solutions, such as attaching a gyroscope or smart watch to his collar, to detect his movements or sounds during a seizure.

The author proposes a general theory of Universal Activation Networks (UANs), which unify diverse biological and artificial systems, including gene regulatory networks, neural networks, and artificial intelligence, by identifying common computational principles and structures. The theory suggests that UANs operate according to computational principles, are fundamentally explainable, and can ...

The author attempts to find the most densely populated square kilometer in the UK using 2021 Census data and finds that the area in Bow, East London has a population of approximately 24,000 people in a single square kilometer. The author also uses alternative grid placements to find higher density areas, but ultimately concludes that the area in Bow remains the most densely populated square ...

Oncologists share their own healthy habits, emphasizing the importance of not smoking, being mindful of diet and exercise, and managing stress. They also stress the need for early detection and treatment, and encourage people to be open about their cancer experiences to reduce stigma and improve outcomes.

Starlink Mini is a portable, compact kit providing high-speed internet on-the-go, with max download speeds over 100 Mbps and low-latency connectivity. It's designed for remote work or travel, with flexible billing and easy setup, and can withstand harsh weather conditions.

The 20 July 1992 build of Windows 95, also known as build 07200022, is an early and relatively unknown build of the operating system that predates the Chicago Feature Specification document. This build includes several user experience changes, such as a new 3D control style, new applications, and updated versions of existing applications, but lacks Win32 support and requires a version of ...

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The user feels motivated to learn new tech skills, but lacks a real-world context to understand their importance and application. They struggle to find problem scenarios where tools like Jenkins, Chef, and cloud computing are necessary, making it hard to learn and apply them without a job to provide a frame of reference.

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You've been working on a small project, wlhc, which enables "hot corners" on Wayland desktops, using Hare to develop it. Despite some challenges, such as hardcoded paths in the Makefile and immature ecosystem, you've enjoyed the process and are looking forward to releasing the project once dependencies are updated.

Xiaomi's new 80,000-square-meter Smart Factory in Beijing is 100% automated, producing foldable phones at a rate of one every three seconds, 24/7, with AI-powered processes that can diagnose and fix problems, optimize production, and evolve over time. The factory's "brain" is the Xiaomi Pengpai Intelligent Manufacturing Platform, which enables self-perception, decision-making, and execution, ...

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Carbon monoxide poisoning is a life-threatening emergency that requires immediate treatment with oxygen therapy, which can be administered through a non-rebreather mask or hyperbaric chamber. Oxygen therapy is essential to rid the body of carbon monoxide and prevent permanent damage or death, and it should be continued until blood levels of carboxyhemoglobin drop to less than 3% and symptoms ...

The author reflects on the limitations of advice, noting that people often ignore good advice and struggle with implementing it, and that advice may not be effective due to various factors such as cognitive biases, lack of understanding, and personal preferences. The author concludes that advice is often cheap and may not be helpful in many situations, and that instead of seeking advice, ...

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NASA is developing the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a next-generation telescope designed to search for signs of life on planets orbiting other stars, with a deployment date slated for the 2040s. The telescope will leverage super heavy-lift launch vehicles, such as Starship, SLS, and New Glenn, to overcome mass constraints and enable the collection of high-resolution images of exoplanets.

The author has been writing a book on applied cryptography for a year and a half, focusing on practical cryptography that is relevant to real-world applications, including post-quantum cryptography, homomorphic encryption, and multi-party computation. The book aims to provide a comprehensive guide to modern applied cryptography, with minimal theoretical cryptography and formulas, and instead ...

The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has studied the feasibility of containerization, a system where waste is stored in sealed, rodent-proof receptacles, and found that it is viable for 89% of residential street segments, comprising 77% of the City's total residential waste output. Containerization is expected to reduce the presence of rats, improve the cleanliness of streets, ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Harvard University found that the flow of water within muscle fibers determines how quickly they can contract, with faster contractions relying on molecular properties rather than fluid flows. The study also discovered a new property called "odd elasticity" in muscle fibers, which allows them to generate power through repetitive deformations, ...

Denisovans lived on the Tibetan Plateau for millennia, with recent discoveries revealing their ability to survive harsh climates and diets. The newly found bones, including a 48,000-32,000-year-old rib, provide insight into their behavior, adaptation, and extinction, with researchers still seeking answers to these questions.

You have retirement funds in Fidelity and Vanguard IRAs and are considering moving them to VOO, VTSAX, and VFIAX for a more aggressive allocation, citing Vanguard's target retirement funds having a 10% bond allocation despite being far from retirement. You also mention rolling over employer 401ks into Vanguard IRAs or 401ks, and using a financial advisor to manage other investments, with a ...

Internet Archive Canada and Library and Archives Canada launched a digitization project to preserve and share Canada's documentary heritage, digitizing 100,000 out-of-copyright publications from 1200s to 1920. The project aims to make these materials freely accessible online, promoting knowledge sharing and cultural advancement in Canada.

You consider Windows 11 as 100% spyware and avoid it, expecting future versions (12 and 13) to record everything permanently with no user privacy settings. You predict Microsoft will increasingly collect user data for ad revenue, including always-on mic, unencrypted data transfer, and encryption only after monitoring.

CodeMirror is an open-source code editor component for the web with a rich programming interface and support for many editing features. It is developed on GitHub and has a community-driven approach with a code of conduct and various language packages available.

A new study found that night owls and those with intermediate chronotypes performed better in cognitive tests than morning people. The study suggests that sleep duration and quality have a direct effect on brain function, and managing sleep patterns is important for boosting and safeguarding cognitive performance.

The FreeBSD project is reducing the support duration for stable branches from 5 years to 4 years, starting with FreeBSD 15, and establishing a predictable quarterly release schedule. The new schedule aims to provide more frequent releases, streamline the release process, and make it easier for users to plan and manage their upgrade cycles.

Lix 2.90 "Vanilla Ice Cream" is a reliable and user-friendly Nix implementation with several small but exciting features, focusing on foundations and reliability. The release includes bug fixes, improvements to user experience, and faster evaluation, with a goal to create a better Nix 2.18.

Researchers have developed the first cell-free system where genetic information and metabolism work together, producing metabolic enzymes and working in both test tubes and artificial cell-mimics. The system, based on the synthetic Cetch cycle, uses CO2 as a raw material to produce organic molecules and can sustain itself for at least 12 hours without external input.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has been recreated with AI-written content, using the names and photos of former writers without their consent. The new owner, Web Orange Limited, has been accused of plagiarism and using generative AI to recreate the work of its former writers, with some writers' names being changed to "Mary Brown" and others having their profile pictures replaced with stock images.

A new particle-based rendering method uses ray tracing to efficiently handle large numbers of semi-transparent particles, leveraging fast GPU ray tracing hardware and bounding volume hierarchies. This approach enables accurate and efficient rendering of complex scenes with distorted cameras, secondary lighting effects, and time-dependent effects, outperforming traditional rasterization-based methods.

The team is considering moving font compilation, rasterization, and manipulation from Python and C++ to Rust to achieve faster and safer code with a balance between development velocity and performance. The goal is to establish a clean pattern for read-only and read-write use cases, provide a developer-friendly codebase, and stop the stream of fuzzer issues in HarfBuzz and FreeType.

Jurigged is a tool that allows live code updates, modifying existing instances of functions and modules without reloading the entire program. It can be used to loop over specific functions, and has features like hot-patching, reloading, and watching for changes in files.

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Nike has laid off about 30% of its employees who worked primarily on sustainability initiatives, a significant blow to the company's efforts to reduce its environmental impact. The cuts come as Nike has missed its targets for reducing emissions and is facing increasing pressure to disclose its climate risks and deliver on its sustainability promises.

Dynolog is a lightweight monitoring daemon for heterogeneous CPU-GPU systems that provides continuous monitoring and on-demand profiling modes to optimize AI training applications. It integrates with PyTorch Profiler and Kineto CUDA profiling library, supports various interfaces, and is designed to work on Linux platforms, focusing on cloud environments.

The user is interested in developing desktop applications and seeks recommendations for resources, including books, online courses, and tutorials. They consider factors such as cross-platform development, native solutions, and complexity, and suggest starting with a specific platform or toolkit like Flutter or AvaloniaUI.

Anthony Bourdain was known for his openness to new experiences, but he had a bias against vegetarians, viewing them as enemies of good and decent things. Despite this, vegetarianism has become more accepted and trendy, with many restaurants and food options catering to plant-based diets, but it still drives people crazy and is often met with suspicion and stigma.

A new survey shows that a helium reservoir in northern Minnesota is larger than initially estimated, with higher helium concentrations than previously thought. The discovery could help address global helium shortages and provide a reliable source of the gas, which is in high demand for various industries.

Fanvue's "Miss AI" pageant, which judged AI-generated social media influencers, has attracted criticism from women in the AI space, who see it as objectifying women. The "winner", Kenza Layli, is a fictional Moroccan influencer with over 200,000 followers, created by Myriam Bessa, who will receive $5,000 as a prize.

The Xen Project is facing potential problems due to the sudden shutdown of its colocated data center facility by Synoptek, which will impact the continuity of its OSSTest tool. The project is exploring solutions, including moving its hardware to a different location or abandoning OSSTest, but is concerned about the potential consequences for its users and stakeholders.

Geobiologist Erica Barlow discovered a 2.4 billion-year-old rock containing microfossils that push back evidence for the start of complex life on Earth by 750 million years. The find links the Great Oxidation Event, a sudden increase in oxygen levels, to the development of complex life, providing direct fossil evidence for this theory.

Hikers in Colorado's Devil's Thumb area almost captured a plane crash on July 4, as a pilot narrowly recovered from an incipient spin near the Continental Divide. The pilot, possibly flying a 152, managed to avoid disaster within feet of the ground at 12,200 feet.

A novel approach is introduced to test optimizing compilers using real-world code, which constructs well-formed programs by fusing multiple code snippets from various projects, leveraging dynamic execution information to maintain semantics and build complex data dependencies. The approach, implemented in a tool called Creal, has reported 132 bugs to GCC and LLVM, demonstrating the significant ...

Shelley Duvall, a versatile and distinctive actress, died at 75 due to complications from diabetes, leaving behind a legacy of iconic roles in films like "Nashville", "3 Women", and "The Shining". Duvall's career spanned over four decades, with notable collaborations with Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, and she also ventured into producing and children's television shows.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No VS Code Version: 1.91.0 OS Version: MacOs Big Sur 11.7.10 Steps to Reproduce: [2890:0704/003248.433136:ERROR:node_bindings.cc(162)] Fatal error in V8: v8::Template::Set Inva...

Physicists have found that tachyons, hypothetical particles that travel faster than light, are not ruled out by the special theory of relativity and can actually help understand its causal structure better. The discovery was made by incorporating the final state of a system into the theory, which allowed for the removal of previous difficulties and the prediction of a new kind of quantum entanglement.

In Norway, children are given a high degree of independence and freedom from a young age, with many walking to and from school alone, cooking their own meals, and even making solo journeys across the country. This "free-range" parenting style is deeply ingrained in Norwegian culture and is seen as a way to foster independence, self-reliance, and responsibility in children.

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Researchers found that lithium-ion batteries, a key part of clean energy infrastructure, are a growing source of pollution due to the use of a novel PFAS called bis-perfluoroalkyl sulfonimides (bis-FASIs). The study suggests that these PFAS can persist in the environment and affect aquatic organisms, highlighting the need for innovations in manufacturing, disposal, and recycling to minimize ...