Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.

Genie 2 is a world model that generates diverse 3D environments for training AI agents. It can simulate virtual worlds and respond to actions taken by humans or AI agents.

The Financial Times offers 8 daily articles and complete digital access for $75/month or $720/year with a 30-day free trial. Cancel anytime during the trial and save 20% by paying a year upfront.

The author proposes a 7-state spectrum for professional relationships, from competitive to shared identity, and shares his own experiences and insights on how to move relationships forward. He offers actionable steps, such as cultivating an abundance mindset, starting small, and sweating the details, to achieve quality collaboration and bring relationships into alignment with one's goals and values.

Outerbase Studio is a lightweight GUI for managing SQL databases with features like query editor, data editor, and schema editor. It supports various databases and offers a connection manager for storing and sharing connections across devices.

The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer defined 1980s popular music with its unique sound, which was generated through frequency modulation and digital technology. Its popularity was short-lived due to the complexity of programming and the eventual rise of sampling technology.

OpenTTD 14 has been released with bug fixes, improved gameplay, and new features. The latest release candidate, 14.0-RC3, includes translation updates and fixes for annoying bugs.

Ruby's performance was slow in a recent language comparison repo, but applying YJIT made a significant difference, especially for the Fibonacci example. By rewriting C code in Ruby and using YJIT, developers can improve performance and potentially create a "YJIT standard library" where core Ruby functionality is optimized for YJIT.

The particle physics course for high-school students was developed based on educational theory and research to support student learning. It introduces key concepts gradually and emphasizes the use of models in science.

You released a native dual-range input library @stanko/dual-range-input, using two native HTML range inputs to preserve interactions and accessibility features. The library synchronizes inputs and updates widths to maintain a specified ratio, with styling options exposed for easier theming.

The app uses spaced repetition to help users remember new information by sending reminder emails with review links over several months. Users can save notes, article links, or reference links and review them in under 5 seconds, with the option to cancel repetition if not replied to.

Researchers use AI to find undocumented oil and gas wells in the US, which can leak chemicals and methane. A team at Berkeley Lab is developing tools to detect and quantify methane emissions from these wells, aiming to plug and abandon them.

The four types of engineers are grifters, believers, coasters, and grinders, each with unique strengths and weaknesses, and a healthy mix of all four is ideal for a company. Understanding and working with these different types can help individuals and organizations achieve success and maintain a positive work environment.

The author of nixCraft's No NAT November challenge disables IPv4 on their home network for a month and relies on IPv6, experiencing some issues with devices and services that don't support IPv6. They conclude that IPv6-mostly networks, which use transitional technologies like NAT64 and CLAT, are a good compromise between IPv6-only and dual-stack networks, allowing for a smooth transition to ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has struggled to limit formaldehyde due to industry opposition. Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any other chemical in the air and poses a significant risk to public health.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Manhattan, police believe it was a targeted attack. The gunman remains on the loose, police are investigating and canvassing the area.

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate confident yet entirely fictional answers due to limitations in their architecture and training data, leading to hallucinations that can cause misinformation and reputational damage. To mitigate these issues, a three-layer defense strategy can be employed, including input layer controls, design layer implementations, and output layer validations, which ...

Global CO2 emissions are still increasing but per capita emissions have peaked. Economies must decarbonize faster to meet climate targets.

EmacsConf 2024 is an online conference using free software, with a satellite event in Lucerne, Switzerland. Join emacsconf-discuss or emacsconf-org mailing lists or IRC channel #emacsconf for discussions and organization help.

A 1929 textbook, Science and the Way to Health, praises science for improving human health and life expectancy. It highlights the contributions of scientists, such as Joseph Lister and Edward Jenner, as heroes who have conquered diseases.

Prunt is an open-source motion control system for 3D printers with unique features like automated pinout data. Early beta units of Prunt hardware are available for $100 USD, but may have issues and are not recommended for beginners.

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RAG improves accuracy and relevance by combining information retrieval with generative models. It uses external documents to provide up-to-date and accurate responses to user queries.

The author explores why global fashion became boring, suggesting that it's not just due to industrialization, but rather a combination of factors including mass production, egalitarian ideals, and the breakdown of social and cultural constraints that allowed for individual expression through clothing. The author proposes that everything else becoming more interesting, such as increased ...

A proposed copyright mechanism involves tying the Harberger tax to the opportunity cost of owning a copyright, encouraging efficient use of capital and minimizing opportunity costs. This can be achieved by linking the copyright to a stock market index, allowing owners to choose between the index and the copyright, and enabling third parties to buy out or contribute to a buyout.

Alberta's Rat Control Program was established in 1950 to prevent the spread of Norway rats, which were introduced to the east coast of North America in 1775. The program has been successful in maintaining Alberta as a rat-free province, with a team of pest control inspectors and public education efforts preventing rat infestations.

Awk is a command line tool for log parsing and data processing, suitable for large text files. It operates on files, usually structured in lines of human-readable text, and can transform data with its pattern matching and actions.

Testing AI applications requires a systematic approach to ensure consistent and reliable results. A hands-on workshop demonstrates how to automate AI testing using Helix.ml's framework and integrate it into a CI/CD pipeline.

The user, a DevOps professional, found NixOS to be the easiest way to manage multiple websites and applications on their own servers using containers. They configured NixOS to run containers using Podman and provided a step-by-step guide on how to set it up and debug running services.

The author attempts to simplify Patrick Cousot's POPL 2024 paper by creating a Hoare cube with eight options, obtained by toggling three binary switches: may/must, forward/backward, and over/under approximation.

VEKOS is an experimental Rust OS focusing on verification and security, released in alpha stage v0.0.1. It welcomes contributions to help improve its core functionality and verification techniques.

Dr. Ken Iverson In 1982, journalist Whitney Smith sat down and talked to ken Iverson about a variety of topics. From sentient computers to education. Iverson's perception is far-reaching and accurate of many of the technological situations we find ourselves in today. Hosts: Bob Therriault and Whitney Smith Guest: Dr. Ken Iverson

Parsagon uses AI to automate workflows for government affairs professionals by searching public policy. It allows users to search for specific information across regions, unlike outdated current search portals.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a courageous theologian who opposed Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and was executed for his involvement in a plot to kill the Führer. His theology evolved from a focus on Christ's immanent presence to a more inclusive, "religionless Christianity" that emphasized prayer and righteous action.

Friedrich Nietzsche's adoption of the Malling-Hansen writing ball increased his productivity, but also changed his thought process and writing style. His use of the typewriter led to a shift from sustained reflection to aphorisms and a more concise style.

The CDC found 60 splash pad outbreaks between 1997 and 2022, sickening 10,611 people and causing 152 hospitalizations. The main cause is children spreading germs while sick, often through vomit or poop in the water.

Keyset pagination is a better alternative to offset/limit in Postgres for efficient and correct pagination, offering performance benefits and improved correctness guarantees. It uses a compound cursor to produce a total order of the table, allowing for safe traversal and handling of deletions, but requires careful implementation and consideration of edge cases.

Godot has 53,648 issues and 45,213 PRs, with 20% of issues still open. The project needs more volunteers and funding to manage its increasing scale.

Larry Ellison, the world's third richest man, is revamping Oxford's Eagle & Child pub, where J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis met, into a unique pub and restaurant with a bakery and Scholars' Common Room. The project aims to preserve the pub's heritage while offering a new dining experience and fostering innovation through technology.

OpenRCT2 in your browser! Contribute to Mstrodl/ORCT2-web development by creating an account on GitHub.

Russia's darknet markets control 93% of global share, generating $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023. The dead drop model, driven by cryptocurrency and online platforms, fuels a public health crisis and rising incarceration rates among Russian youth.

Stafford Beer, a British management consultant, implemented his radical ideas on cybernetic socialism in Chile under Allende, but failed due to his refusal to compromise. His book "Platform for Change" is a testament to his vision for a society that enhances human capacities without warping human desires, but it was a commercial disaster and marked the end of his career.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now includes Automated Reasoning checks to prevent factual errors from hallucinations in large language models. This safeguard uses sound mathematical and logic-based verification to ensure generated responses align with known facts.

User relies on AI for repetitive tasks and testing, but uses it for optimization tasks as well, sometimes copying code to achieve desired results. This approach takes away the enjoyment of problem-solving and leaves manual cleanup work.

Harry Frankfurt's book On Bullshit explores the concept of bullshit, distinct from lying, and its effects on truth. He argues that bullshitters prioritize conveying an impression over truth, making them a greater enemy of truth than liars.

Meilisearch's document indexer needs optimization to handle large datasets and frequent updates, and the team plans to rewrite the indexer using new techniques such as parallel reading and writing, caching, and efficient data structures. The new indexer will also support features like differential indexing, streaming document updates, and compression to reduce disk usage and improve performance.

AWS added S3 Tables, a new type of bucket that supports Apache Iceberg, with automatic maintenance and integration with AWS analytics services. S3 Tables cost 15% more than standard S3 storage, but offer a convenient solution for Iceberg table maintenance and compaction.

The user created a New Year's greeting with a hidden Easter Egg, a retro mini-game encoded in the card's border using binary. The game was a 2D scroller with simple controls and a simple collision detection system.

LimeJourney sends smart notifications to customers at the right time to boost sales and engagement. It helps personalize marketing with features like audience segmentation, customizable templates, and data analysis.

Certificate Authorities verify website public keys to ensure they belong to the website owners and sign them with a certificate, which browsers use to trust the website. However, this system is fragile and depends on hundreds of private entities not making mistakes, and even with Certificate Transparency Logs and distrust mechanisms, high-risk individuals or businesses may still be vulnerable ...

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We should fix software to accept bare NL as end-of-line mark, not requiring CR in CRLF. This will simplify line endings and reduce unnecessary complications.

Aurora DSQL is a scalable SQL database with active-active architecture, allowing independent scaling of compute, read throughput, write throughput, and storage space. It uses a novel service-oriented architecture with a multi-tenant scale-out storage service and a new scalable SQL execution layer.

A 93-year-old University of Toronto professor's YouTube channel was cancelled due to alleged pornography, but was later reinstated after Google intervened. The professor, Metta Spencer, claims her channel was hacked and she spent weeks trying to convince YouTube to restore it.

The SO_REUSEPORT socket option in Linux allows multiple processes to listen on the same port, improving server performance by distributing connections among them. This is achieved by hashing client IP:port and server IP:port values to select a socket from the group, providing a good distribution of connections among different LISTEN sockets.

The author has switched from using ThinkPad laptops to a Framework 16 laptop, citing the ThinkPad's keyboard and trackpoint as the main reasons for loyalty. The Framework 16 offers a modular design and repairability.

A US House committee released a 520-page report concluding SARS-CoV-2 likely leaked from a Wuhan lab, criticizing US science agencies and the World Health Organization. The report also criticizes US public health officials and the FDA, while Democrats released a separate report challenging the conclusions.

Google Cloud is offering advanced generative media models Veo and Imagen 3 on Vertex AI, enabling businesses to create high-quality videos and images from simple text prompts. These models help streamline video production workflows, unlock new creative possibilities, and prioritize safety and responsibility.

Amurex is an AI meeting assistant that integrates into workflows, providing real-time suggestions and summaries to boost productivity. It's an open-source tool that handles busywork, ensuring data security and transparency.

Telegram has agreed to work with the Internet Watch Foundation to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material. The move comes after years of criticism and the arrest of its founder Pavel Durov in Paris for alleged failure to moderate extreme content.

The user experimented with compiling SQL statements into LLVM IR using Inkwell and Rust, achieving a 74 µs runtime for a 1MB dataset by bringing instructions to the data and using vectorized operations. The user found this approach to be faster than a naive query planner but noted that there is room for improvement and that float operations are not communicative, producing slightly wrong results.

The UK government is introducing the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) to facilitate trading of private company shares on a multilateral system. PISCES aims to provide a regulatory framework for structured trading events, allowing broad pools of investors to access private markets using public market infrastructure.

Pinecone vector database now supports direct GenAI inferencing for improved retrieval-augmented generation. It includes fully managed embedding and reranking models, plus sparse and dense retrieval features for better AI performance and accuracy.

Crunchy Data Warehouse is a modern analytics database built into PostgreSQL for fast vectorized query execution and ACID transactions. It extends PostgreSQL with Iceberg tables for scalable data storage and query performance.

Qodo Cover is a new agent that automates test coverage for better code quality and efficiency by analyzing source code and generating high-quality tests. It helps developers maintain consistent test practices and ensures comprehensive and efficient test suites.

The CDC found 60 splash pad outbreaks between 1997 and 2022, sickening 10,611 people and causing 152 hospitalizations. The main cause is children spreading germs while sick, often through vomit or poop in the water.

Academics are divided on whether to engage with conspiracy theories, with some arguing it's their responsibility to counter them. This book explores various approaches to dealing with conspiracy theories across disciplines and countries.