Former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, 26, died in his San Francisco apartment on Nov 26, with no foul play evidence. He was a key witness in lawsuits against OpenAI over its business model and ChatGPT's use of copyrighted material.
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OpenAI and Elon Musk disagreed on the structure of a for-profit company, with Elon demanding majority equity and control, which OpenAI rejected due to concerns about AGI dictatorship. OpenAI continued to pursue its mission, raising capital and making progress in AI research, while Elon pursued AI research at Tesla.
Phi-4 is a 14B parameter state-of-the-art small language model that excels at complex reasoning, especially in math. It outperforms larger models on math-related tasks and is available on Azure AI Foundry and Hugging Face.
Morry Kolman's Traffic Cam Photobooth lets users take selfies with NYC traffic cams, but NYC's Department of Transportation sent a cease-and-desist letter citing safety concerns. Kolman responded by taking photos of the letter with traffic cams, highlighting the project's interactive nature and resistance to surveillance.
McKinsey and Company agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal probe into its role in promoting OxyContin sales. The consulting firm admitted no liability but agreed to refrain from future work involving controlled substances.
The Computer History Museum acquired an early Memorex videotape containing a 1968 recording of IBM's Executive Terminal, a system created by Robert Dunlop to provide top executives with information. The system was a precursor to modern video conferencing and was part of a hierarchical organization, contrasting with Engelbart's collaborative vision.
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New Zealand's government plans to divert half of the Marsden Fund to "research with economic benefits" and disband social sciences and humanities panels. This decision has sparked criticism from academics who fear it will disproportionately harm Māori scientists and undermine New Zealand's research capabilities.
The author discusses technical writing best practices, criticizing Strunk and White's Elements of Style and recommending Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace instead. The author shares scripts to detect weasel words, passive voice, and duplicate words in writing, emphasizing the importance of precision and clarity in technical writing.
Meet.hn has 1700 hackers signed up for meetups in 700 locations worldwide, but signups dropped after the initial 36 hours. The user proposes integrating meet.hn with Hacker News to encourage more meetups, but this idea is not currently on the roadmap.
The world is becoming increasingly homogenous, with various aspects of our lives, including architecture, interior design, fashion, advertising, and entertainment, converging on a single, unoriginal style. This trend is driven by factors such as conformity, the desire for familiarity, and the influence of globalisation, and it's up to individuals and companies to resist this homogenisation ...
Luon is a statically typed version of Lua with Oberon-like syntax, targeting LuaJIT VM. It integrates concepts from Lua and Oberon, allowing reuse of Lua libraries and C libraries via LuaJIT FFI.
Donald L Bitzer, a computer pioneer, passed away. He co-invented the flat-panel plasma display and created PLATO, the world's first time-shared computer-based education system.
Origami is a new programming language for creating small to medium-scale websites efficiently. It lets users describe their site at a high level and transform data into HTML resources without complex programming.
The user created a low-power e-paper display to show their child's school timetable, using an ESP32 microcontroller and a server-side web application to fetch and display the information. The project involved web scraping, image manipulation, and deployment on a cloud platform, and took around 50 hours to complete, but has greatly simplified the user's morning routine.
The user created a shooting gallery game using ESP32 microcontrollers, infrared signals, and a Node.js game server, inspired by a ride at Legoland. The game was a success at a school event and Halloween party, with plans for future improvements, including custom boards and better lighting.
MIT researchers developed a new technique for metabolic imaging that more than doubles the depth limit, allowing for clearer images and faster speeds. This method uses a specialized laser and fiber shaper to minimize scattering and maximize signal, enabling deeper tissue penetration and more detailed images.
Two mathematicians, Ben Green and Mehtaab Sawhney, proved a challenging prime number theorem. Their proof used a tool from a different area of mathematics, the Gowers norm, to make a significant breakthrough in number theory.
Research found that good readers have distinct brain traits, including a larger left temporal lobe and thicker auditory cortex. Reading can shape brain structure, and neglecting reading skills may impact humanity's capacity to interpret the world and understand others.
The @smoores/epub library is a tool for working with EPUB 3 files, providing APIs for accessing metadata, manifest, and spine of the publication, as well as utility methods for parsing and manipulating XML documents. The library allows users to create, read, and modify EPUB files, including adding and removing manifest items, updating metadata, and writing the publication to disk.
Health insurance companies deny claims at a higher rate than ever, with some refusing 50% of claims, making it a gamble when choosing a plan. Insurers deny valid claims with impunity, and the public should be able to see denial rates when choosing a plan.
Scientists have imaged altermagnetism, a new class of magnetism, for the first time, which could lead to faster magnetic memory devices. Altermagnets combine favorable properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, potentially increasing speed and efficiency while reducing carbon emissions.
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A basalt tablet with an enigmatic language was discovered near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia's Dmanisi region, featuring 60 unique characters. Researchers speculate the writing may have recorded military spoils, construction projects, or offerings to deities, but its meaning remains elusive.
The author analyzes Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut, exploring its themes of capitalism, class, and power, as well as its connections to various works of art and secret societies. The film's complexity and symbolism make it open to multiple interpretations, reflecting Kubrick's intention to create a visual experience that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing.
Rust's compiler has moved towards a query-based model to support incremental compilation and low-latency responses, where the compiler has a set of queries for different properties of the program and each query can either retrieve the answer from a persistent compilation database or calculate it from scratch. The query-based approach introduces complexity but allows the compiler to track ...
The author is implementing a garbage-collected smart pointer in Rust, called Gc, which provides thread-safe interior mutability and can be used to create cyclical data structures. The Gc type uses reference counting and concurrent cycle collection to ensure that cyclical garbage is properly collected, and it also includes a mutation buffer to handle increments and decrements to the reference ...
Transformer shortages are causing delays in renewable-energy projects and increasing costs by 60-80 percent. Companies are developing new transformer technologies to address the shortage and improve grid resilience.
AT&T stopped upgrading DSL lines to fiber, leaving millions without options due to lack of competition. The company has received billions in tax cuts and subsidies but refuses to upgrade, instead pushing satellite or wireless alternatives.
Developers using Flutter and Dart SDK are vulnerable to predictable randomness due to a 32-bit PRNG, allowing attackers to brute-force secrets and access sensitive data. Multiple projects, including Proton Wallet and SelfPrivacy, have been affected by this issue, which was caused by the use of a non-cryptographically secure PRNG in the Flutter ecosystem.
Synthetic biologists have made significant breakthroughs in DNA storage, gene modification, and creating synthetic organisms. However, they are calling for a ban on creating "mirror bacteria" due to potential risks.
The user wants to implement a flow detection system for programmers using emacs, tracking keypresses and idle time to determine if they are in a good state for distractions. They are using a MagTag board with a webserver to display a sparkline of activity, but are looking for improvements and suggestions on how to structure the code efficiently.
AI product management is evolving rapidly with the growth of generative AI and AI-based developer tools, requiring product managers to learn new best practices such as using concrete examples to specify AI products and testing technical feasibility. New AI models like Amazon's Nova and OpenAI's o1 are being released, offering competitive performance and pricing, but also raising costs and ...
Rainsum v1.2.0 includes improvements from SMHasher3 and features Rainbow and Rainstorm hash functions. It supports multiple modes and sizes, with Rainbow being the fastest 128-bit and 256-bit non-cryptographic hash.
Multiple AIs for extensive searches. Ithy uses distributed AI to analyze online sources, synthesizing independent insights for definitive answers not attainable from any single AI.
The user uses Vercel's ƒun to create and invoke a Node.js function with custom environment variables and memory size. The function is then destroyed to clean up processes and shut down the API server.
Marc Rochkind asked for a retrospective on SCCS's influence over the last 50 years. Ken Thompson explained a quote about SCCS storing binary data, preventing UNIX text tools from operating on the file. SCCS's strength is its weave format, which allows for efficient merge data by reference.
Hospitals are reporting pregnant women to child welfare authorities after they test positive for medications given to them during labor. The positive tests are often triggered by medications prescribed for pain relief, anxiety, and blood pressure, leading to false accusations of substance abuse.
The Git project is considering adopting Rust, but discussions are ongoing due to concerns about platform support, particularly for niche platforms like NonStop. A Rust-to-C transpiler like mrustc could be a potential solution to support legacy platforms, but it has limitations and may not be suitable for all cases.
The US has become the world's largest supplier of cattle genetics, with its dairy industry producing 10% of the world's milk, thanks to a data-driven approach to animal breeding that began with cow-testing cooperatives in the early 1900s. This approach, which uses data to select the best bulls and cows, has led to significant increases in milk production, but also poses challenges such as ...
Thomas Berdmore's 1768 treatise on dental disorders highlights the struggles of 18th-century patients with tooth decay and gum disease. His case studies show the risks and consequences of unskilled dental practices, emphasizing the need for improved dental care and education.
Biopharming, the practice of using animals as chemical factories, has been declining due to advancements in biotechnology and the discovery of more efficient alternatives, such as synthetic insulin and vaccines. However, the shift away from biopharming is not yet complete, with many animal-derived products still being used due to regulatory lock-in, molecular complexity, and the challenges of ...
Transform any website into LLM-ready training data while focusing on what matters - building powerful AI applications. Transform web content into clean, structured data perfect for RAG systems and LLM training with a single query. Use GPT-4 to extract structured JSON data with predefined schemas. Get 100% accurate results for extracting information like emails and other structured data.
Elon Musk plans to turn SpaceX's Texas site into a new city and move the company's headquarters there. The site in Boca Chica is currently the primary location for building and launching Starship rockets.
Researchers developed an alternative approach to cloud-based raster data access using STAC GeoParquet and added COG metadata to improve efficiency. This approach reduces HTTP requests and latency, enabling faster raster data analysis and query speeds, especially for large datasets.
IBM Research published two significant papers at the 2024 IEDM conference on BEOL interconnect technology. The papers focus on advancements in Cu and post-Cu dual damascene technology.
The article discusses how to measure the time required for data to be irrecoverably lost from RAM after powering off a platform, and it presents results from testing two platforms with different DDR generations. The results show that data decays with time, but the rate is significantly different between the tested platforms, with the DDR4 desktop showing much higher data preservation rates ...
Implementing an object system from scratch using Ruby, focusing on anonymous functions and hash tables for method lookup and prototypical inheritance. The system will include constructors, method lookup, prototypical inheritance, mixins, and metaprogramming features such as dynamic method creation.
James Morison, a Scottish laird's son, created Universal Vegetable Pills that were hugely successful but also led to several deaths due to overdosing. Morison fought back against critics, taking out adverts and paying fines, but ultimately died in 1840, leaving behind a business that continued to thrive.
The author had a frustrating experience with Portugal's electricity provider EDP, leading them to decide to go off-grid. They attribute the country's poor company culture to factors like nepotism, low competition, and exploitation of workers.
Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was the densest city in the world with 1,255,000 people per square kilometer. It was a labyrinth of shops, services, and apartments connected by narrow stairs and passageways before being demolished in 1994.
Best-of-N Jailbreaking is a simple black-box algorithm that elicits harmful responses from frontier AI systems across modalities by sampling variations of prompts. It achieves high attack success rates on closed-source language models and state-of-the-art open-source defenses.
Richard Dawkins's book "The Genetic Book of the Dead" fails to adapt to current science, promoting a simplistic gene-centric view of evolution. John Dupré argues that popular science often prioritizes simple narratives over nuanced complexity, leading to a reductionist worldview that neglects the processual nature of life.
Knowledge Point is a family-run school in London that teaches the Knowledge, a rigorous study of London's streets and routes, to prospective black-cab drivers. The average time to learn the Knowledge is three and a half years, with about 75% of students giving up.
Netnod has implemented Network Time Security (NTS) at the hardware level to provide secure time services. NTS uses modern cryptography to prevent spoofing and MITM attacks, ensuring accurate and secure time synchronization.
UnitedHealthcare is aggressively cutting costs by limiting access to applied behavior analysis therapy for children with autism, despite it being the "evidence-based gold standard treatment." The company's strategy may be illegal, violating federal law and Medicaid regulations.