Cosmopolitan Libc's mutex library outperforms other platforms in heavily contended use cases. It achieves this through the use of the nsync library, which optimizes mutex performance.

F are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the presence of unseen dangers, such as parasitic wasps. This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “On the fly”

a synthesizer and visualizer using the web audio api.

Tik is a phone game that uses haptic feedback to provide interactive gameplay without visuals or sounds. Players tap a sequence of vibrations to copy the rhythm and win.

An unexploded 500-pound US bomb from WWII exploded at Miyazaki Airport in Japan, causing a large crater and cancelling over 80 flights. No injuries were reported, but officials are investigating the sudden detonation of the bomb.

This project uses Docker to run Large Language Models on AMD GPUs with Hugging Face models. It includes scripts to build and run a container with the necessary ROCm drivers and libraries.

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Researchers Nikita Gladkov, Alexandr Zimin, and the author disproved the Bunkbed Conjecture, a basic claim about random subgraphs, with a counterexample. The counterexample was found through a formal argument after failed computer experiments and AI attempts.

The underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula hold secrets of the distant past, including human remains and fossils of extinct megafauna. These caves, formed by a massive underground aquifer, are a time capsule of human history and prehistoric life.

The user tried to optimize the size of their NixOS system by removing unnecessary packages and tools, but found it difficult due to the complexity of NixOS configurations. They concluded that creating a lean NixOS system is not feasible without forking the NixOS project.

The user argues that most people online are rational and arguing in good faith, but misunderstand each other due to speaking different languages, and that to change someone's mind, you must prove to them that you understand their perspective, not just your own. The user shares a personal anecdote about how they learned to engage with people with opposing views by asking questions, ...

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Nvidia introduces NVLM 1.0, a frontier-class multimodal LLM rivaling top models. NVLM 1.0 is open-sourced with weights and code for the community.

Hans Jonathan, a biracial Black man born into slavery in the Caribbean, escaped to Denmark and joined the Royal Danish Navy, where he gained freedom after a letter from the Crown Prince of Denmark declared him a free man. He later moved to Iceland, married, and had children, eventually becoming a respected storekeeper and community member in the town of Djúpivogur, where his descendants still ...

I gave a talk at FOSDEM 2024 on February 4, 2024, but it started with technical difficulties with the projector not showing my slides. After several reboots and cable checks, I resolved the issue by updating my HDMI output resolution.

Automattic offered WP Engine a term sheet on September 20th, asking for a percentage of revenue back into WordPress. WP Engine's behavior and lack of response led Automattic to reevaluate the terms.

The user released a free and open-source AI model called WALDO for detecting objects in overhead images, trained on synthetic and augmented data. The model is available for download and can be used for various applications, including video and image processing, with optional support for further development through Ko-Fi donations.

Play as the Duke of Histria in Fall of an Empire, navigating politics and battles to claim the throne. Master provincial management, alliances, and warfare to become Emperor in the declining Empire of Rephsis.

Kameo is a Rust library for building fault-tolerant, distributed, and asynchronous actors. It provides seamless communication and scalability for robust systems.

TinyJS is a lightweight JavaScript library for dynamically creating HTML elements with deep property assignment. It simplifies DOM manipulation by allowing you to generate any standard HTML tag programmatically.

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Daniel Stenberg was accepted into the Microsoft MVP program for his contributions to C++ despite not being an expert in the field. He views the award as a way to gain more contacts and reach people who can help with his Open Source work.

The P vs NP problem can be framed as "Can we efficiently invert functions?" which is equivalent to the question "If you can efficiently compute a function, is there an efficient way to compute its inverse?" This framing highlights the fundamental nature of the problem and has implications for cryptography and the possibility of breaking hash functions and symmetric encryption.

The author prefers tools with minimal configuration, citing examples like fish shell and Helix editor, which work well out of the box. They encourage developers to create default experiences that work well for most users.

A deck of 52 playing cards can be arranged in 52! ways, a number so large it's beyond astronomical. It would take over 8.063e67 seconds to count down to zero, equivalent to emptying the Pacific Ocean and stacking paper from the Earth to the Sun 256 times.

Researchers led by Daniela Angulo found that photons can spend a negative amount of time zipping through a cloud of chilled atoms. This phenomenon occurs when photons interact with atoms, causing them to become excited before the photons are reemitted.

Designing forms and databases for the Web that accommodate diverse personal name styles from around the world is crucial to avoid confusion and errors. To achieve this, consider using flexible input fields, avoiding assumptions about name syntax and structure, and allowing users to enter names in their native script or a Latin-only transcription.

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) can be efficiently filtered for automatic level-of-detail using massively parallel hardware, making them suitable for GPU implementation. Optimizing GPU hardware for SDFs could involve storing meta-textures and using linear filtering to reduce data processing and increase parallelism.

The author argues that tiered support and moving support away from development teams leads to disconnection and a suboptimal product. Continuous Delivery and direct user contact enable teams to stay connected and improve their products.

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Erik Naggum explains why Scheme has cons cells, which are pairs of pointers, to implement lists. This design is brilliant and allows for constant time operations.

Adam Tooze discusses John Maynard Keynes' essay "The Influence of Furniture on Love" which explores the connection between interior design and emotions. Keynes believed that furniture can evoke different feelings and influence our lives.

The user provided a list of humorous and satirical book titles that poke fun at various aspects of life, work, and the world. These books offer tongue-in-cheek advice and perspectives on topics ranging from workplace etiquette to survival tips and the supernatural.

Job adverts should be concise and transparent, avoiding phrases like "rockstar developer" and instead focusing on the job's requirements and expectations. Displaying a reasonable salary range and describing success in the first 12 months can improve the job's appeal to potential applicants.

To use the application for QA, upload documents to the File Index tab and select files to be considered during chat. The chat tab displays confidence scores and relevant evidence scores for the answer.

The author believes personal websites should be recognized as a natural human behavior like singing or dancing, not a skill to be mastered. They encourage everyone to have a personal website to cultivate their own space and express themselves freely.

British fiction often features sausages as a staple breakfast food in English families. Authors like Dorothy L Sayers, John Buchan, and Rudyard Kipling frequently mention sausages in their works, highlighting their importance in traditional English cuisine.

Jason M. Allen, who won a digital art competition with an AI-generated painting, is now suing the US Copyright Office for denying copyright registration to his work. He claims people are stealing his AI-generated art without compensation or credit.

A new study found high levels of toxic airborne plasticizers in Southern California, including banned chemicals and their replacements. The study suggests widespread exposure to these chemicals, which are linked to health concerns, and highlights the need to find alternatives to plastic.

Holocron is a distributed system inspired by AWS S3 that uses geo-replicated object storage for virtual nodes. It competes for leadership every epoch and stores historical topology views in S3.

Intel identified the root cause of Vmin Shift Instability in 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors as a clock tree circuit issue. Intel released microcode 0x12B to mitigate the issue, which is being rolled out via BIOS updates to system and motherboard manufacturers.

The writer is leaving Medium due to its AI policy, which they find unacceptable as it allows AI-generated content. They want Medium to ban AI-assisted writing and AI-generated articles entirely.

Tabby, a type of concrete made from oyster shells, was used by enslaved people in the US to build homes and structures, reflecting their labor and creativity. The preservation of tabby architecture highlights the need to recognize and value the histories and contributions of marginalized communities.

Highlight.io uses ClickHouse to store and query time-series data, and they used ClickHouse's aggregate functions to solve performance issues in their alert system. Leveraging ClickHouse's -State and -Merge function combinators, they achieved a 10x speedup and reduced memory usage from 7.6 GB to 82 MB.

The author is frustrated with AI fad similar to the Radium fad in the early 20th century. They had a bad experience with GitHub's Copilot AI that lied about its settings.

Researchers have developed a banana plant, Yelloway One, resistant to fusarium tropical race 4 and black sigatoka diseases. This breakthrough is expected to improve the sustainability of the banana industry and reduce losses worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ryujinx is a Nintendo Switch emulator that offers excellent accuracy, performance, and user-friendly interface. It supports multiple platforms and has a wide range of features including local multiplayer, cheat support, and save states.

To train a model on 10k H100 GPUs, you need to fit a large network and batch-size, parallelize and use memory-saving tricks, and communicate state between GPUs quickly. You also need to recover from failures quickly by monitoring fleet health, removing failed nodes, and saving model state frequently.

The height hunt is a quest to find and visit every possible height restriction sign in the UK. There are more than you might think! Find out how we can work out all the combinations, and what the difference is between circles and triangles. Click on a tile below to see where we found it, or where we think we might be able to find one.

Dashi is a lightweight Ruby framework for building data and AI applications with an intuitive syntax and pre-built components. It streamlines web development and provides a chat interface, simplifying the process of creating impactful applications.

The author received a Snapdragon Dev Kit, a Windows Arm device, after months of waiting, and it shipped with Windows 11 Home, which is unusual for a developer-focused device. The device's performance was underwhelming compared to expectations, and the author suggests that Qualcomm should support Linux as a first-class citizen to improve its appeal.

The Republic of Palau joined the International Telecommunication Union as its 194th member state, adding to the voices of Pacific Islands and Small Island Developing States on digital technology. Palau's membership strengthens its presence in ITU's Asia and Pacific region and supports digital transformation for the country and the Pacific region.

Shared pointer leaks are hard to identify and can be caused by circular referencing, loose references, or weak leaks, leading to memory growth that can take hours or days to become noticeable. To detect and prevent shared pointer leaks, a custom control block can be implemented using xmem, a drop-in replacement for std::shared_ptr and std::weak_ptr, which allows for metadata collection and ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics does not exist, but the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded for economic work. This prize was established by Sweden's central bank to promote neoliberal economics and shield it from democratic accountability.

User enjoys DIY kits like espresso makers, beer brewers, and mini arcade cabinets. They've built a Framework laptop and Prusa printer, and are interested in DIY audio amp kits and smart speakers.

TikTok users are watching bizarre home renovation videos featuring a character named Little John, but they're actually machine-translated from a Chinese app called Bilibili. The videos are satirical, meant to poke fun at the housing crunch in cities like Hong Kong and Shanghai.

William Cowper's poem The Task (1785) hints at geological discoveries that contradict the 6,000-year-old earth theory. Cowper likely learned about these discoveries from reviews in The Monthly Review, a popular literary magazine of the time.

The user describes a model called "interviewing for evidence" which involves gathering four types of evidence: experiential, hypothetical, opinion, and credential to make informed hiring decisions. This approach helps to reduce subjectivity and inconsistency in the hiring process, making it more defensible and effective in identifying great candidates.

Researchers used DNA analysis to identify remains from the 1845-1848 Franklin expedition. DNA results confirm the remains are those of Captain James Fitzjames, HMS Erebus.

Notcurses project has released a new version after 30 months, fixing several bugs and improving performance, including Sixel encoding and input readiness. The project's author plans to focus on other goals until next spring, but is not abandoning the project.

Yoshua Bengio, a pioneer in AI, is concerned about the technology's rapid development and potential risks to society. He believes a moratorium on AI development is necessary to mitigate catastrophic outcomes.

A new Nintendo museum in Kyoto, Japan, opens on Wednesday, featuring video game consoles and nostalgic exhibits. The museum, situated on Nintendo's old manufacturing site, aims to preserve the company's heritage and revitalize the local area.

Cipherwill is a digital platform where you can securely store personal information and set up automated transfers to beneficiaries in case of death. It uses end-to-end encryption to ensure data remains private and secure until transferred to loved ones.

Intel's AIB market share remains at zero percent despite a 47.9 percent surge in global shipments. Nvidia dominates the market with 88 percent share, while AMD holds 12 percent.

A special 10th anniversary edition of WHAT IF is coming in November 2024. xkcd.com has specific browser and device requirements for optimal viewing.

The author argues that putting application logic in the database, such as stored procedures and triggers, is generally not recommended due to difficulties in debugging, testing, and deployment. However, there are some specific cases where putting logic in the database is beneficial, such as ensuring deep consistency in error-prone operations, and these cases should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

You want a browser-based timer with a mini language to store workout sequences. The language allows for repetition counts and time units in seconds or minutes.

Jason M. Allen, who won a digital art competition with an AI-generated painting, is now suing the US Copyright Office for denying copyright registration to his work. He claims people are stealing his AI-generated art without compensation or credit.

User created a TeleText project using Vercel and a laptop, transcribing CNN live news. They used a Linux laptop with a microphone port and local Chrome speech-to-text.

Henry S Warren Jr states that any function that is right-to-left computable can be built from basic instructions like add, subtract, and, or, and not, but functions that depend on bits to the left cannot be implemented with these basic functions. A hypothetical infinite-bit machine can be built with these basic operations and additional instructions like left-shift and LOAD to implement ...