The user shares a tutorial on creating a frosted glass effect using HTML and CSS, including a Gaussian blur, depth effects, and a reflective quality. The tutorial also covers simulating background-attachment: fixed using JavaScript to achieve a dynamic reflection effect on all platforms.

The user discovered that Bluesky allows hosting a website by uploading a blob and referencing it in a record. This is possible due to the AT Protocol's design, which decouples blob uploads from record creation.

Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities enable ubiquitous access to texting, calling, and browsing wherever you may be on land, lakes, or coastal waters. Direct to Cell will also connect IoT devices with common LTE standards.

Danish lawmakers agreed to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural habitats over two decades. The deal aims to reduce fertilizer usage and greenhouse gas emissions, with 43 billion kroner allocated for land acquisition.

The C++ standard committee is struggling to balance backwards compatibility with the need for modernization, leading to a rift between those who prioritize legacy code and those who want to adopt new features. The committee's focus on maintaining ABI compatibility is causing issues with tooling and making it difficult to implement significant changes to the language.

BYD's Zhengzhou factory is expanding with 4 new phases, making it massive. It's built next to the Zhengzhou land port, showcasing BYD's large scale and construction capabilities.

The article discusses the importance of planning one's career, especially in the tech industry, to achieve a fulfilling and satisfying work life. It suggests that most people don't know what they want to do with their careers until they're already in it.

A North Carolina State University faculty member and "How Stuff Works" creator has died, with sources suggesting suicide. Authorities have closed the investigation with no foul play suspected.

A developer tried to avoid building a Kubernetes system but ended up creating a similar complex system with shell scripts and Ansible. They built a system with deployment, networking, and API management.

The user set up a WireGuard VPN server with a private network and manually configured a UPnP server to work around NAT issues. They then configured the server to use a publicly routable IPv6 address for clients, eliminating the need for UPnP and NAT.

Bluesky is rapidly gaining users, surpassing Threads in browser usage and reaching 3.5 million daily active users. Its growth is attributed to its openness to political content, contrasting with Meta's Threads which downplayed such content.

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SmolLM2 is a family of compact language models available in three sizes, suitable for on-device usage and various tasks. It can be used as an assistant or integrated into tools like llama.cpp and transformers.js.

The author tested memory latency under load on various AMD CPU generations, including Zen 4 and Zen 5, to understand how their system topology and bottlenecks affect performance.

A bipartisan group of 12 senators is urging the TSA's inspector general to investigate facial recognition use due to privacy and civil liberties concerns. The senators want the inspector general to evaluate the program's effectiveness and identify potential errors.

Common Table Expressions (CTEs) are temporary views that exist only for the duration of a single SQL statement. They can be used to simplify complex queries by breaking them down into smaller, more manageable pieces.

In January 2007, a guerrilla marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters mistakenly led to a massive panic in Boston when battery-powered LED placards were mistaken for improvised explosive devices. The incident led to controversy and criticism from media sources and the public.

lla is a high-performance ls alternative with customizable output and plugins. It offers a plugin system for extended capabilities and supports custom plugins written in Rust.

Researchers studied the Mark-Scavenge garbage collection algorithm, which reduces unnecessary data movement by delaying evacuation until the next GC cycle. This approach eliminates up to 91% of wasted work, improving performance by 2-8% on heavily loaded machines.

A petname system is a way to map human-readable names to cryptographically secure names, allowing users to interact with decentralized and globally unique identifiers in a more intuitive way. By using petnames, edge names, and proposed names, users can create a personalized system that provides local human-meaningful mappings, making it easier to use decentralized identifiers in everyday life.

Author issued four correction notices for published papers, acknowledging mistakes and providing simple explanations for the errors. They regret not exploring how the mistakes happened in the notices, but hope to add that in the future.

Andrew Morton sent non-MM Linux kernel patches, including a hung task counter and folio conversion for NILFS2. The hung task counter adds a /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count metric for tracking hung tasks since boot.

Hynix developed a 321-layer tNAND with 12% faster write time and 13% faster read time. The company achieved this breakthrough with a "3 plugs" process technology and improved productivity by 59%.

Deegen is a meta-compiler that generates high-performance JIT-capable VMs for dynamic languages with minimal engineering cost. It automatically generates interpreters and JIT compilers that outperform state-of-the-art VMs through various optimizations.

The US Supreme Court allowed a multibillion-dollar class action lawsuit against Meta to proceed over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Meta is accused of not fully disclosing risks of user data misuse, leading to two significant stock price drops in 2018.

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Voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite embedding models outperform OpenAI v3 large by 7.55% and 3.82% respectively, with lower costs and smaller embedding dimensions. They support 32K-token context length and are available for free with the first 200M tokens.

Koreans use the Hangul alphabet, a scientifically designed writing system created by King Sejong in 1446. King Sejong, a benevolent and learned ruler, aimed to make reading and writing accessible to the common people.

C99's disembodied C allows evaluating expressions with variable length arrays as parameters, but not statements. It's Turing complete but lacks practical use due to limitations like recursion and no return values.

Scientists developed a new malaria vaccination strategy using genetically engineered mosquitoes to boost immunity. The approach reduced participants' susceptibility to malaria in a trial.

The demo uses the TPD-DS dataset to explore the language syntax of DuckDB and its ability to produce a representative data warehouse for TPC-DS. It covers various concepts such as selection, derivation, aggregation, filtering, and merging models to enable cross-namespace querying in Trilogy.

Scientists have developed an algorithm called RoboPAIR that can hack into LLM-controlled robots with 100 percent success, allowing attackers to manipulate robots into causing harm. The algorithm exploits vulnerabilities in the robots' safety filters, posing a serious threat to public safety and highlighting the need for robust defenses against malicious use-cases.

Andrew Tomazos published a C++ paper titled The Undefined Behavior Question, sparking controversy over its title's historical implications. He was expelled from the Standard C++ Foundation and ISO C++ committee after declining to change the title.

The UK government cancelled most of the High Speed 2 rail project due to cost concerns, prioritizing measurable profit over other values. This approach is reminiscent of the dominant ideology of utilitarianism without the ability to calculate utility and cost-benefit analysis without benefits.

A study by management consultancy P3 found that electric car batteries lose capacity quickly in the first 30,000 km but then degrade at a slower rate, with most batteries retaining over 90% of their capacity after 100,000 km. The study recommends gentle driving and charging behaviour to slow down battery ageing, and suggests that electric car batteries can last much longer than the standard ...

Archaeologists found a population of ancient river crabs in Rome's sewer system, dating back to when Rome was a marshy valley. The crabs' numbers are rapidly declining due to climate change and lack of habitat, putting their survival at risk.

Balaji Srinivasan's book "The Network State" proposes a new social contract enabled by blockchain technology, but its solution is a turn towards enforced morality and feudalism. This vision undermines the true power of networks, which is found in embracing complexity and diversity, not in simplistic reductionism and homogeneity.

The author likes LibreOffice but finds it frustrating due to its limited support for Microsoft Office file formats. He suggests LibreOffice adopt the proprietary file formats to improve compatibility.

The author believes Django's async capabilities are underrated and can be beneficial for AI use-cases where tasks are waiting for IO to complete, but requires full async support from the start. They successfully demonstrated Django's async features in ColiVara, a retrieval API, and recommend using Uvicorn and django-ninja for async Django projects.

PHP 8.4.1 is released with bug fixes and security updates, available for download on the PHP website. Multiple PHP versions including 8.1.31, 8.3.14, 8.2.26 have security releases.

The Franklin project aims to secure America's critical infrastructure by partnering top hackers with six US water companies to identify and fix vulnerabilities. The project, launched at DEF CON, will chronicle its efforts in a yearly "Hacker's Almanack" to help others learn essential skills.

A federal judge ruled that a Massachusetts school was likely within its rights to discipline a student who used AI to cheat on an assignment. The judge denied the student's parents' request for a preliminary injunction, stating the school's actions were not excessive.

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Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim student, was arrested in 2015 for bringing a homemade clock to school, sparking allegations of racial profiling and Islamophobia. He was later cleared of any wrongdoing and received support from President Obama and other prominent figures.

The author criticizes the Bay Area tech industry for its groupthink and conventional wisdom, such as prioritizing venture capital funding and SaaS business models. They argue that these ideas are outdated and that building a successful tech company requires a more balanced approach.

Ubitium is developing a Universal Processor based on RISC-V architecture that can perform CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA functions. The processor aims to be smaller, more energy-efficient, and less costly than specialized chips.

A group is recreating Lunatic Fringe using web technologies to make it playable on any platform and OS. The project is a work in progress, and users can submit issues or fork and submit pull requests.

The US and Kazakhstan collaborated on Project Sapphire, securing over half a ton of highly-enriched uranium from a Soviet submarine project in 1994. The operation was part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation.

The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are a mysterious geoglyph collection created by a pre-Inca civilization between 200 B.C. and 700 A.D. Researchers have discovered over 730 geoglyphs using AI and drones, shedding new light on their enigmatic purpose.

Researchers found that astrocytes, non-neuron brain cells, play a key role in storing specific memories. They can be artificially manipulated to suppress or enhance a memory, leaving other memories intact.

The author argues that PHP is often unfairly criticized and misunderstood, despite its evolution and modernization, and that its community and tooling system are thriving. The author believes that PHP is not dying, but rather, it is still widely used and has a strong following, with many new projects and frameworks being developed, including Laravel and FrankenPHP.

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Researchers are conducting a UK trial to see if giving homeless people cash is more effective than traditional help in reducing poverty. The study, funded by the government, will compare cash transfers with traditional charity support for 360 people in England and Wales.

The paper by Sorini et al. investigates the impact of the cosmological constant on past and future star formation. They present an extended analytical model for cosmic star formation, which shows that the fraction of cosmic baryons converted into stars peaks at 27% for a specific range of cosmological constant values.

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aiOla's Whisper-NER model integrates ASR and NER to enhance privacy in transcription. It automatically identifies and masks sensitive information like names and addresses during the process.

The user proposes a new high-level I/O abstraction for kernel-bypass using a user-level library OS to provide ease-of-use, portability, and flexibility for applications. This abstraction, called Demikernel, aims to replace existing low-level interfaces like DPDK and RDMA, which impose hardware limitations and inefficiencies on applications.

Nuclear energy is experiencing a revival due to its potential to meet the massive energy demands of AI services. This could lead to a renaissance in nuclear energy development, making it a dominant energy source in the next decade.

Fans of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey wrote letters to him, expressing their thoughts and feelings about the film. Their letters showed a range of reactions, from confusion and frustration to admiration and appreciation for the film's artistic and philosophical themes.

The author discusses the rise of LLM-based coding assistants and their potential impact on software engineering. They express concerns about accelerating productivity without improving work hours and the loss of basic skills.