Working from home has increased productivity and economic growth by saving employees time and money, and allowing them to work more efficiently. This shift has also brought wider benefits such as increased labor supply, reduced pollution, and improved quality of life.

Chrome will disable Manifest V2 extensions in stable Chrome over weeks, directing users to Manifest V3 alternatives. Enterprises have until June 2025 to migrate due to an extended policy exemption.

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic are expected to grow significantly in sales, with a forecast of 23 million patient-years by 2030. However, supply shortages and insurance coverage restrictions may limit sales, with only 15% of Americans with diabetes or obesity likely to have access to these drugs.

Eugene Cheah, co-founder of Featherless.AI, advises against buying H100 GPUs due to oversupply and price drops. He recommends renting instead, as it's more cost-effective.

User created a minimal Rust code for full inference on Language Models on CPU without ML libraries, adding support for Llama 3.2 models. The code is available with benchmarks and download links for models and tokenizers, with instructions for installation and conversion.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. The Japanese organisation, comprised of atomic bomb survivors, helped establish the "nuclear taboo" through witness testimony and advocacy.

Researchers studied Large Language Models' (LLMs) mathematical reasoning capabilities using GSM-Symbolic, a new benchmark. They found LLMs' performance declines when questions are altered or have more clauses, suggesting they replicate reasoning steps rather than perform genuine logical reasoning.

The author was invited to give a talk at the Chicago Python User Group, but initially declined due to lack of experience with Python. They then created a project to help students learn FUSE-based filesystems in Python.

A Lisp compiler written in uLisp compiles Lisp functions into RISC-V machine code for execution on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2. The compiler uses a subset of Common Lisp and supports tail-call optimization, recursive function calls, and boolean operations.

The author of the post implemented a Windows resource compiler in Zig, called resinator, and discovered many quirks and bugs in the original Microsoft RC compiler, including edge cases with user-defined types, non-ASCII digits, and VERSIONINFO resources. The post details 15 bugs and quirks in the RC compiler, including miscompilation, crashes, and bizarre behavior, and explains how resinator ...

Steam now shows a message stating game purchases grant a license, not ownership. GOG is responding with a banner emphasizing its offline installers, which cannot be taken away.

Snaps is a Kagi Search feature that limits results to a specific website using a short code and @ symbol. It's similar to Bangs, but searches Kagi's index instead of the site's internal search.

Researchers developed algorithms to generate highly coiled hair shapes using geometric methods. The algorithms model phase locking, period skipping, and helical perversions to create richly detailed depictions of coiled hair.

To optimize CUDA code, use memory coalescing and consider using specialized hardware like tensor cores. CUDA requires a different approach, focusing on parallelization and using shared memory and registers to reduce synchronization overhead.

The article lists alternative CMSs to WordPress, including Ghost, Kirby, Indiekit, Craft CMS, ClassicPress, Statamic, and others, each with their own features and pros and cons. The list aims to provide viable options for those seeking a self-hosted CMS that can be easily installed on a server.

The CEO of Anthropic, a company researching AI risks, discusses the potential benefits of powerful AI, which could lead to significant advancements in biology, medicine, and neuroscience, improving human life expectancy, treating diseases, and enhancing mental health.

NotesHub is a versatile note-taking app with features like Kanban boards, Markdown editor, and Git repository syncing. It's available on multiple platforms and offers a one-time purchase price with no subscription fees.

Physicians are now aware of brain zaps, a disconcerting symptom of antidepressant withdrawal, which can be distressing and mysterious. Gradual tapering, switching to fluoxetine, and CBT during the discontinuation process can help mitigate brain zaps and other ADS symptoms.

AI researchers at Apple found LLMs lack formal reasoning, instead relying on pattern matching, which is fragile and prone to errors. This flaw, also observed in previous studies, highlights the need for alternative AI approaches, such as neurosymbolic AI, that combine symbolic manipulation with neural networks.

Deadcheck is a dead man's switch that triggers actions if checks aren't confirmed within a specified time. It uses external services like PagerDuty for alerts, ensuring execution even if the hosting infrastructure is down.

Here is a 2-sentence summary of the user's input in 200 characters or less: Gleam is a statically-typed functional language for building scalable software, inspired by Elm and Rust. It supports variable declaration, arithmetic operations, functions, and case expressions, making it a compelling language for concurrent and distributed systems.

Tukkun, an indie game developer, had his Google Play account terminated without warning due to "prior violations" and "High Risk Behavior" despite his game "Anti-Idle: Reborn" being approved for production. He is appealing the decision but has received no clear explanation from Google.

Nurdles, tiny plastic pellets, are washing up on beaches, riverbanks, and lake shorelines by the millions. A documentary follows an expedition to find the source of the nurdle pollution and its environmental impact.

Updated Ollama model with dynamic token limits, automatic loading, and chunking for long pages. Fixed potential issues with incorrect token limits and improved user experience in options page.

The Tandem Non-Stop architecture achieved high availability through modularity and fault tolerance, similar to Erlang's BEAM virtual machine. Understanding system failures and implementing processes with fail-fast mechanisms and backup processes can ensure high availability in software systems.

You struggle to transition from acquaintances to friends due to unclear reasons. Trying to improve may involve being more outgoing, showing genuine interest, and varying social settings.

The INTELLECT-1 project is a decentralized training run of a 10-billion-parameter model, inviting anyone to contribute compute and participate, aiming to bring open-source AGI closer to reality. The project uses a new decentralized training framework called Prime, which enables fault-tolerant training, dynamic on-/off-ramping of compute resources, and optimized communication and routing ...

The Dominos provider for Terraform allows users to order a pizza from Dominos using Terraform's resource model. Users must be cautious as this provider will charge their actual credit card and cannot be destroyed programmatically.

Aria is an open multimodal native AI model with best-in-class performance across various tasks, outperforming proprietary models. It's a mixture-of-expert model pre-trained from scratch with a 4-stage pipeline for language and multimodal understanding.

Pocache is a lightweight caching package that optimizes performance in concurrent environments by reducing redundant database calls. It triggers preemptive cache updates when a value is accessed within a threshold window.

Spotify maintains its flexible remote work policy, treating employees like adults for a productive work environment. The company encourages in-person collaboration during designated "core weeks" to maintain team culture and minimize commuting impact.

Researchers studied binary logistic classification and found that it exhibits Grokking, a phenomenon of delayed generalization and non-monotonic test loss. Grokking occurs near the interpolation threshold, where the model may overfit for long times before generalizing.

The author explains how to use matrices to transform colors in a game, allowing for easy composition and application of various color operations, but notes that non-linear operations like tone mapping cannot be represented as matrices. The author provides a table of matrices for various color operations, including darkening, lightening, blending, saturation, and hue shifting, which work with ...

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PepsiCo acquired 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer from the Soviet Union in 1989, but the ships were old, obsolete, and unseaworthy. The deal was part of a multibillion-dollar bet on the Soviet Union's long-term stability and a strategy to establish world peace and a new post-communist prosperity led by business.

Tesla shares fell 8% after unveiling its robotaxi, the Cybercab, with investors disappointed by lack of detail. Analysts say the event focused on branding and marketing rather than providing concrete numbers and timelines.

Academia is producing many low-quality AI papers, while industry labs keep valuable techniques secret to maintain a competitive edge. This creates a wave of AI cheerleaders spreading misinformation, leading to unrealistic expectations about AI capabilities.

The user had a great experience with the reMarkable 2 but had issues with the lack of backlight and export features. The reMarkable Paper Pro addresses these issues but the user is unsure if it's worth the cost.

AP5 is a high-level language that extends Common Lisp with relations, operations on relations, consistency rules, and automation rules to enable declarative specification and generation of data. It provides a Virtual Memory Data Base (VMDB) with persistency mechanism, atomic transactions, and a type lattice for subtype relationships among base types.

Scientists at ETH Zurich created a device that guides sound waves in one direction only, using swirling air to synchronize and strengthen the waves. This device, called an acoustic circulator, could inform the design of future communications technologies and even manipulate electromagnetic waves.

New images from 2022 reveal the remarkably preserved state of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which sank in 1915 after becoming stuck in pack ice. The images show the ship's rigging, helm, and woodwork preserved under the icy waters, along with crew belongings and a flare gun.

A simple rule of thumb predicts the length of the longest run of successes in n independent Bernoulli trials with success probability p. The distribution of this longest run is well approximated by an extreme value distribution.

Voiczy is a language learning app that uses AI and voice interaction to help children become confident multilingual speakers. It offers a free 7-day trial and is designed for children aged 2-15 with content tailored to different age groups and learning levels.

The US military's X-37B spaceplane will perform aerobraking maneuvers to lower its altitude and safely dispose of its service module components. The maneuver will allow the spaceplane to safely return to Earth after conducting radiation effect experiments and testing space domain awareness technologies.

The author tried a far infrared heater in the form of a hanging art piece to warm their living room but found it had issues due to the room's layout. The heater's gentle heat was pleasant but unreliable due to its position.

Japan's cluttered spaces are often overlooked, but they reveal a more complex relationship with stuff, suggesting minimalism and clutter are two sides of the same coin. The nation's philosophy of aesthetic accumulation is a deliberate choice, not a lack of resources, and clutter can be a byproduct of taste and time, rather than chaos.

The Rust language has a single compiler, but a GCC frontend called gccrs is being developed to address this issue and provide a second opinion for achieving language stability and reliability. The project has made progress, but it still faces challenges and criticism, with some arguing that it's not worth the effort and that the benefits of a second implementation are not significant enough ...

AMD's new Instinct series focuses on AI accelerators and general-purpose compute solutions. The MI325X and MI355X are large GPUs with HBM3e memory, offering 256GB and 288GB of memory respectively.

California's push for zero-emission vehicles by 2035 is facing challenges, with some police departments finding Teslas unsuitable for patrol work due to design limitations and modification issues. Alternative manufacturers like Ford are being considered for electric police vehicles.

Americans are spreading false information about hurricanes, claiming government involvement and conspiracy theories. This misinformation is creating fear, anger, and violence, and hindering relief efforts.

Archaeologists in Croatia discovered a 3,500-year-old settlement in Stobreč with a well-preserved Greek rampart and structures from various historical periods. The discovery provides new insights into the area's past, including evidence of the settlement's existence from the Middle Bronze Age.

macOS applications use the defaults system to record user preferences in domains, with individual applications having their own domains and sharing the NSGlobalDomain. Defaults are stored as XML Property List dictionaries with string keys and complex data structures as values.

The author of Campsite.com criticized Slack's design for promoting daily chatter over deep work and expressed frustration with vendor lock-in. They believe Campsite's post-based communication system is a better alternative for team collaboration.

Big Search is a browser extension that allows users to switch between multiple search engines and websites without interrupting their workflow, with features like keyboard navigation and customizable search engines. It supports GET/POST search methods, In-page-Ajax-render websites, and user-defined search engines with JSON-format data specification.

New research links founder personality to startup success across all stages. Founders scoring high in openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness have an edge, but neuroticism hurts at every stage.

People assume they have adequate information to make decisions, even when they lack key details, leading to misunderstandings and poor perspective taking. This "illusion of information adequacy" contributes to social conflicts and biases, such as naive realism, and can be mitigated by teaching individuals to question their knowledge and consider what they may not know.

Livegrep is a source-code search engine that uses a suffix array to efficiently search for regular expressions in large codebases. It analyzes the regex, extracts an index key, and uses binary searches to find matches, then uses RE2 to match the results.

QuickPoint is a text-based interface for creating content, allowing users to focus on writing without distractions. It enables users to express their ideas clearly and then stylize them with filters or from scratch.

The author found Xsight, a GUI environment for SCO XENIX, in SCO Open Desktop (ODT) 1.0 floppy images. Xsight 2.1 disks in ODT 1.0 support XENIX, but installation requires manual kernel configuration steps.

California's push for zero-emission vehicles by 2035 is facing challenges, with some police departments finding Teslas unsuitable for patrol work due to design limitations and modification issues. Alternative manufacturers like Ford are being considered for electric police vehicles.

Designers and developers can create more inclusive user experiences by identifying stress cases and designing with compassion. This book provides practical knowledge to test designs, vet new features, and build a business case for kindness in user experiences.

Wildlife Services, a USDA program, kills hundreds of thousands of noninvasive animals annually, including native species like grizzly bears and wolves, often without evidence of livestock loss. Critics argue the program's methods are cruel and ineffective, and that it should focus on nonlethal methods to prevent conflicts between wildlife and livestock.

The user drew parallels between military aviation design and software development, highlighting the importance of brutal, basic, and thorough engineering to achieve goals and avoid unnecessary complexity. They emphasized the need for a focus on people and the impact of software on their lives, as well as the importance of maintenance, flexibility, and frugal design in achieving affordable excellence.

Researchers introduced Anchor-based LLMs (AnLLMs) to reduce memory demand and improve efficiency. AnLLMs compress sequence information into an anchor token, achieving up to 99% cache reduction and 3.5 times faster inference.

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User reworked Apple's naming system for consistency and logic, dropping inconsistent prefixes and suffixes. New naming system includes Apple Phone and Apple Phone Pro for standard and high-end models.

Football formation app allows easy team formation creation via CSV upload and drag and drop players. It shares formations and tactics via message or email for coaching purposes.

Jam is a protocol combining Polkadot and Ethereum elements, offering a permissionless smart-contract environment with scalable sideband computation. It allows anyone to deploy code for a fee, using core-time as a metric of computation.

Dreamhaven's Sunderfolk is a couch co-op RPG that combines tabletop elements with party games, allowing up to four players to control the game on their smartphone. It's a cooperative fantasy RPG with six hero classes, releasing in 2025 for various platforms.

A literature survey found that early scientific literature on mRNA vaccines was biased due to social and economic influences, underreporting severe adverse events. Only in the last year have scientists acknowledged a high number of SAEs linked to mRNA based vaccines.

Lore Segal, a writer who escaped the Holocaust, spent her last months confined to a hospital bed, yet still observed the world around her with her characteristic freshness and empathy. Her work, which often explored the challenges of displacement and the human condition, was marked by her ability to see the universe in a nutshell and her resistance to ideology.