Eureka Labs is building an AI-native school where AI teaching assistants guide students through high-quality course materials, making learning accessible to anyone. The company's first product, LLM101n, is an undergraduate-level course on training AI, available online and in physical cohorts, aiming to increase human potential through AI-powered education.

Mozilla's new Firefox 128 version has sparked controversy over its introduction of a technology for anonymized advertising measurement, with users accusing the developer of deceiving them by activating the feature without explicit consent. Critics argue that Mozilla's actions undermine user trust and may be motivated by a desire to improve its own cash flow, rather than prioritizing user privacy.

Codestral Mamba is a new architecture designed for linear time inference and infinite sequence modeling, available for free use and modification under the Apache 2.0 license. It can be deployed using the mistral-inference SDK or TensorRT-LLM and is suitable for local code assistance, with testing available on la Plateforme.

You added a "Disallow Reactions" header to your postfix configuration to prevent receiving reaction emails from Microsoft users, and tested it with various clients. The header enrichment worked, but the recipient's Microsoft client still showed reaction options, and the reaction was silently dropped by Microsoft, achieving your goal but not providing an ideal user experience.

Exo is a software that allows you to run your own AI cluster at home using everyday devices, unifying their resources to create a powerful GPU. The software is experimental, with a ChatGPT-compatible API and a list of bounties for community contributions, with plans to unify its implementations across platforms.

The current AI golden age has exceeded expectations, with the Transformer model being a groundbreaking breakthrough in machine translation and now essential knowledge for modern engineers. The document provides a concise path for engineers to understand the Transformer, including working Python code examples and references for further exploration.

Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower, has died at 86 after revealing the US government's Tuskegee study, which left hundreds of Black men untreated for syphilis. His 1972 exposé led to a public outcry, ending the study and resulting in a $10m settlement, and he is revered as a hero for his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research scandal in US history.

Transformer-based models have limitations in multivariate long-term time series forecasting, while xLSTMTime, an adapted architecture, surpasses current approaches with superior forecasting capabilities. Refined recurrent architectures like xLSTMTime offer competitive alternatives to transformer-based models, potentially redefining the landscape of time series forecasting.

Engineering teams often encounter the XY problem when selecting tools for managing software systems, focusing on proposed solutions rather than the actual pain points. To effectively design and visualize complex systems, teams need tools that can handle dynamic system design, provide real-time updates, and support collaborative problem-solving, rather than relying on traditional diagramming tools.

You installed Linux on your Surface Pro 4, which worked well except for touch recognition issues, including ghost touches and palm rejection, making it unusable. You eventually gave up and switched back to Windows 10, but still use the device with alternative software.

AI phishing scams have become increasingly sophisticated, using machine learning algorithms to create personalized and convincing emails that can trick even the most cautious individuals. To protect against these scams, organizations should implement DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) and educate employees on identifying and preventing phishing attacks.

Safari's Private Browsing mode has been enhanced to provide stronger privacy protections, including hiding IP addresses, blocking trackers, and reducing fingerprinting, to help users browse the web privately and securely. The new features also include advanced tracking prevention, content blocking, and partitioning of session storage and blob URLs to prevent cross-site tracking and fingerprinting.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft may face launch delays or mission risks due to faulty electronic circuits that don't meet radiation-hardness standards. Engineers are reviewing the issue and exploring mitigation strategies, including replacing or disabling faulty components, to ensure the mission's success.

The theory of a Darwin Machine, proposed by William Calvin, suggests that the brain implements evolution to search a near infinite problem space, with minicolumns being the arena for this evolution, and cortical columns allowing for the complexity that minicolumns alone couldn't provide. The theory aims to explain how the brain solves complex problems, including how it generates novel and ...

OpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging the company's overly restrictive employment agreements illegally prohibited employees from warning regulators about the risks of its AI technology. The whistleblowers claim these agreements violate federal laws and regulations meant to protect whistleblowers, and are calling for an investigation ...

You've struggled to build a career, network, and life due to what you suspect is a memory deficiency, leading to repeated mistakes and inability to achieve goals. You're seeking advice and potential coaching to overcome cognitive and emotional limitations, improve emotional regulation, and develop skills to achieve your goals.

Magic CLI is a command line utility that uses LLMs to help users with CLI tasks, offering features like command suggestion and execution. The tool is still in early development and requires configuration options, such as selecting a mode for command suggestion and execution.

Omar Sanseviero, Chief Llama Officer at Hugging Face, discusses the company's decentralized and engineering-centric approach to DevRel, prioritizing usage-based metrics over visibility-driven ones, and fostering a culture of collaboration and community engagement. He also shares insights on how Hugging Face decides which projects to invest in, and how they balance exploration and exploitation ...

The author, a long-time restaurant critic for The New York Times, recently completed a list of 140 restaurants and realized they were no longer hungry for food. After 12 years, they have decided to step down as critic, citing technical obesity and the inability to continue the demanding reviewing schedule.

The author created an RPG-cli spin-off, a command-line interface game inspired by classic Japanese RPGs, with a focus on simplicity and minimalism, using Rust programming language. The game features a hero that navigates the file system, fighting enemies and collecting items, with an auto-battle feature and a leveling system, and was later extended with additional features and classes.

The author has improved their arbitrary-precision number library by using 30-bit digits instead of base-10 digits, resulting in significant speed improvements for addition and multiplication operations. The author has also implemented the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm, which provides an additional 59% improvement in speed for large numbers, and plans to focus on adding more features to ...

us into seeing how fortunate we all are: that things don't go wrong more often! being in a fire in Malibu, flying the X-1 (that broke the sound barrier – but had a dangerous corroded battery cable), or things just “go wrong”: our tire blows out a friend riding a horse and is thrown – ending up with a broken neck.

Taim is a time tracking software that allows freelancers to track time accurately, edit sessions, and gain insights into app usage. It offers manual or automatic tracking, customizable settings, and easy export options, making it easy to use and beautiful.

NSCopyObject is a problematic Foundation function that can cause memory leaks and crashes when used with ARC-managed objects. Apple's continued use of NSCopyObject in their own frameworks and lack of a replacement copy mechanism has led to a decade-long struggle for developers to work around its issues.

Matt Walker is releasing Godotcaml, an open-source project that integrates Godot game engine with OCaml, a functional programming language, allowing developers to create games with a garbage-collected, eager-by-default, and type-safe language. The project is still in an early stage of development, with many features to be implemented, including garbage collection, signals, and better build ...

The article discusses the IBM 3274 Control Unit, a mainframe component that handled communication between terminals and the mainframe, and examines a specific chip, the Motorola/IBM SC81150, which is part of the unit's Keystone II board. The chip is a specialized data-handling chip with a 16x16 memory buffer, PLAs, and a unique transistor design, but is not a processor or microcontroller.

The author describes a recording of DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) signals from a VOR-DME station, using a LimeSDR and GNU Radio, and analyzes the quality of the recording, including the presence of squitter and the shape of the pulses. The author also discusses the setup of the recording equipment, including the antenna, LNA, and splitter, and explains the configuration of the LimeSDR ...

The interactive viewer allows real-time editing and visualization of 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes using a Python GUI library, enabling endless editing and visualization possibilities. It also features various widgets for debugging, camera control, video rendering, and performance tracking, making it a powerful tool for understanding and debugging 3D Gaussian Splatting objects.

You're a mid-level developer feeling stuck and unfulfilled, lacking problems to solve or creative projects outside of work. You've been waiting for an idea to hit you for 10 years, but feel stagnant and unsure how to move forward.

Ly is a lightweight window manager that provides basic Wayland support and can work with any X desktop environment, but requires a custom configuration file and may encounter issues with SELinux on Fedora. To use Ly, edit the configuration file, disable getty on the desired tty, and ensure the .xinitrc file is executable and includes a shebang.

This website provides easy-to-read, fully annotated Elizabethan plays, making them accessible and understandable for modern readers. The site aims to fill the gap of modern, readable versions of Elizabethan drama and provide annotated plays for readers, with a goal to make the plays enjoyable and satisfying to read.

Two ancient axe-heads, believed to be over 4,000 years old, were sent to the National Museum of Ireland by an anonymous sender, who wants them conserved. The museum is trying to trace the sender to learn more about the artefacts, including their origin, and is reminding the public about the law on metal detecting in Ireland.

The author expresses concerns about Rust becoming the only choice for systems and application programming, citing issues with syntax, async programming, and static analysis. They also compare Rust's build times and compilation speed to their own language, Yao, which they claim can compile 1M LoC per second.

The UK now has almost 1 million electric car chargers, with the majority installed in homes and businesses, and the industry claims this growth is keeping pace with increasing electric vehicle sales. The number of public chargers is increasing rapidly, with 5,100 installed in the second quarter of 2024, and companies are confident they can meet the government's target of 300,000 public charge ...

A British judge has referred Craig Wright, who claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin, to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration of criminal charges of perjury and forgery. The judge also granted two injunctions prohibiting Wright from re-litigating his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto and from threatening or filing lawsuits aimed at developers.

The author, Ryan Rempel, developed a method to run Mac OS X on unsupported systems by writing kernel extensions to fix bugs and update drivers, and created an application called XPostFacto to automate the installation process. The author encountered various challenges, including a bug in the AppleNVRAM driver, a problem with the IOSCSICDDrive class, and an issue with the IOBlockStorageDriver ...

GuardDuty, a security control for AWS cloud, has limitations in coverage, cost, and efficacy, making it a good complement to Canary Infrastructure for comprehensive threat detection. Canary Infrastructure offers flexible and extensible threat detection capabilities, low latency, and cost-effective usage-based billing, making it a suitable solution to enhance AWS security.

A web server is a program that implements the HTTP protocol, allowing clients to request files and the server to return data. PS-HTTPD is a web server written in PostScript, which was created as a coffee table discussion project and has been useful in learning about the HTTP protocol and PostScript language.

The replaced token detection pre-training task corrupts input by replacing tokens with plausible alternatives and trains a model to detect replaced tokens, achieving better results with less compute. This approach outperforms BERT and other models, especially small ones, and works well at scale, using less compute while achieving comparable or better results.

A couple, Oksana and Serhii, started a fake delivery company called "Future Delivers" to contact influential people in London, delivering parcels from the future with good advice and warnings. They used creative problem-solving and unconventional methods, including targeting deceased people on Facebook and sending cryptic emails, to deliver the parcels and build anticipation and brand awareness.

The author reflects on their 50-year journey of translating Andrey Platonov's works, which have brought numerous people into their life, including fictional characters that have become a part of their mental world. Through their translations, the author has come to understand Platonov's work as a single story, exploring themes of wholeness, healing, and the power of love, and has developed a ...

The author claims that research mathematics is running out of interesting and unsolved problems, with most papers and research being confined to a small group of experts, and that the field needs to shift its priorities to focus on simplifying existing knowledge rather than constantly producing new, specialized research. The author argues that this shift is necessary for the health of the ...

The article discusses recent scientific research supporting tactics to "dumb down" an iPhone, which can lead to benefits such as improved attention, reduced stress and depression, and improved wellbeing. The tactics include disabling notifications, deleting apps, switching to grayscale mode, and decluttering the phone's homescreen, which can help reduce the negative effects of smartphone use ...

Erwin Schrödinger's 1944 book "What Is Life?" explores the physical aspect of living cells, proposing a "code-script" that directs cellular organization and heredity. The book's ideas, although not entirely original, anticipated the discovery of DNA's double helix and influenced many scientists, including Francis Crick and James Watson.

The New Madrid Seismic Zone in the central United States is a region prone to powerful earthquakes, with a 25-40% chance of a magnitude 6.0 or higher earthquake occurring in the next 50 years. Despite this risk, the region lacks adequate building codes and infrastructure, leaving millions of people living in the area vulnerable to potential disasters.

A joint investigation with Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) reveals that data brokers sell location data of millions of people in Germany, with the data containing around 11 million device identifiers and spanning a period of two months. The data, obtained from a US-based data broker, can be used to track people's movements and is of concern to national security, as it could be acquired by foreign ...

Noctilucent clouds, the highest clouds in Earth's atmosphere, are glowing electric blue and pearl blue at the edges of our atmosphere, and scientists attribute their proliferation to global climate change. These clouds can be spotted in the Northern Hemisphere from May to September and are most visible around July 11, with ideal viewing conditions this summer.

The user is building a new type of personal computer, the Flying Car, and is considering setting up a company in Estonia to avoid EU regulations and taxes. They plan to market the product globally, including in the EU, and are considering shipping the product from China with minimal quality control or using third-party shipping relay points.

Three startups, Zephalto, Space Perspective, and World View, plan to take tourists to the stratosphere using pressurized capsules and massive gas-filled balloons, offering a unique view of the Earth. The balloon rides will last around 6 hours, reaching heights of 15-19 miles above the Earth's surface, with ticket prices ranging from $50,000 to $184,000 per seat.

The article discusses the concept of "German Strings" which is a custom string type optimized for data processing, and how it differs from traditional string implementations in languages like C and C++. The German Strings approach stores strings as a single 128-bit struct, allowing for faster access and comparison, and provides a concept of storage classes to manage the lifetime of strings.

The author discovered that Git LFS was slow due to TCP_NODELAY being disabled by default in Go, which caused packets to be sent in small chunks, leading to retransmissions and slow uploads. The author argues that this default setting is problematic and can cause issues in many scenarios, and suggests that developers should set TCP_NODELAY to off and use buffering to handle small packets.

The user discusses how software has a sub-scene within every community, with power users taking an interest in the software itself, and a small group of hackers who reimagine the software to make it better. The user's pet theory is that truly great software starts when these hackers wrap the power users' view of the software back around into something new and improved.

The author argues that the concept of "moonshots" in science is often used as a marketing term to fund incremental research rather than truly bold and innovative ideas, and that the lack of reputational risk and the emphasis on publishing papers over producing knowledge are major obstacles to making real progress in science. The author proposes three potential moonshot ideas, including ...

Automerge is a Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) that merges concurrent changes on different devices without a central server. It's implemented in JavaScript and Rust with FFI bindings for various platforms, allowing use in various network protocols and unidirectional messaging scenarios.

The US housing shortage grew to 4.5 million homes in 2022, up from 4.3 million, due to a lack of new construction and increasing demand. The shortage is exacerbated by strict land-use regulations, making it difficult for people to afford homes, and experts recommend relaxing zoning laws and increasing density to address the issue.

Meta's VR and AR investments have not yet led to mass-market product-market fit, with only 2% daily active users and a flat installed base. Despite improving devices, it's unclear how many people will care about xR technology, as other cool innovations like drones and 3D printers have not gained widespread adoption.

A strong stratospheric warming event is currently unfolding over the South Pole, which is a rare occurrence in the Southern Hemisphere and can have a significant impact on global weather patterns. This event can disrupt the polar vortex and lead to unusual weather effects in the Northern Hemisphere, and its effects can be seen in changes to atmospheric pressure, temperature, and circulation patterns.

The user's Apple Developer account was locked due to non-renewal of the annual subscription, and despite requesting a review, the account was permanently locked by Apple Support. The user is seeking advice and assistance to restore their account and is looking for similar experiences or contacts within Apple to help resolve the issue.

South Korean activists send balloons with information and supplies to North Korea, but a new smart balloon design is needed to increase accuracy and reduce cost. This open-source project aims to create a cheaper and more effective smart balloon, called BOA27, to deliver necessary items and information to resource-starved areas.

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for scientific research documents, published or not, from institutions worldwide. The list provides information on the decriminalization of cannabis in various countries, with some still illegal and others having legalized or decriminalized it.

The High Court of England and Wales found Dr Craig Steven Wright dishonest in his claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, and ordered him to cease making false claims. The court declared Wright is not the owner of the Bitcoin White Paper copyright, nor the author of the initial Bitcoin software, and ordered him to refrain from threatening or commencing legal proceedings based on ...

Roberto Moreno, a computer engineer with autism spectrum disorder, shares his experiences and helps neurodivergent engineers and students overcome challenges, including time management and socialization. He suggests ways IEEE can better support neurodivergent members, including creating programs in collaboration with neurodivergent people and streamlining the proposal process to reduce ambiguity.

Tens of thousands of people have died in Mexico due to fighting between drug cartels since the 2000s. The number of deaths peaked in 2021 with over 18,000, according to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.

The Chorleywood Experiment in the 1960s led to the development of a new bread-making process that revolutionized the industry, allowing for mass production of soft and fluffy bread. This process, known as the Chorleywood Bread Process, is still widely used today in many countries, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India.

A suspected drug-smuggling tunnel found in Tijuana, Mexico is so long that authorities need oxygen tanks to investigate, and it's connected to another tunnel that reaches US territory. The tunnel's exit point has not been found, and US authorities are searching for it, while Mexican authorities have filled the local side with concrete as per federal law.

The article highlights the consequences of building infrastructure for a climate that no longer exists, citing examples such as a bridge in Manhattan that malfunctioned due to heat and power outages in Houston. The author argues that it's not just infrastructure that needs to adapt, but also economic systems, cultural lives, and individual behaviors, and that rebuilding the world is necessary ...

I use ungoogled-chromium with NeverDecaf's plugin for installing and updating extensions. I just noticed it give a warning that this addon was removed from the google play store. having just checked the URL, it does seem to have disappea...

The tech community has tested no-strings-attached payments to those in need, with some experiments in Silicon Valley, but a bipartisan political consensus around the movement is fracturing. A proposal for a statewide basic income program in Oregon is likely to be on the ballot, while the results of the largest direct income program to date will be released on Monday.

Evan Wright, a journalist and author, has died at 59 due to suicide. Wright was a National Magazine Award winner and wrote for Rolling Stone, contributing to the book and TV series "Generation Kill" and reporting from war zones like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Contacts is a microlanguage that allows users to manage contact information in a concise and efficient way, compiling data into various formats including PDF, HTML, CSV, and JSON. The language is designed to be compact, with only 23 lines of code, and can be used to add, prune, display, print, and export contacts.

Python's date-time handling has historically been problematic due to timezone-naive datetime objects, which can lead to incorrect calculations. To avoid this, ensure that all datetime objects have a specified timezone, as epoch timestamps are timezone-naive and can be ambiguous.

A C64-themed smartwatch wirelessly syncs fitness data, including step count, to a Commodore 64 computer using an infrared transmitter and receiver. The watch's data is decoded by an Arduino Micro and sent to the C64's user port, where it is displayed on screen in decimal format.

Priscila Barbosa, a Brazilian immigrant, built a lucrative business creating fake accounts for ride-sharing and food delivery apps, using stolen Social Security numbers and doctored ID photos, and made millions of dollars during the pandemic. However, as the authorities began to crack down on the fake accounts, Barbosa's business was eventually shut down, and she was left to face the ...

AI is transforming various industries, but history shows that technological advancements often lead to greater accessibility and a broader appreciation for professional expertise. Professionals will always be needed for their expertise and ability to deliver the highest quality work, and AI should be seen as a tool that enhances our abilities, not as a threat that diminishes our worth.