Researchers at the University of York found that banning smartphones in school improved sleep and mood in children. A 21-day phone ban led to 20 minutes faster sleep, 1 hour extra rest, and 17% reduction in depression and 18% in anxiety.
Greetings from Canada, self taught watchmaker here. Just finished making my first watch and wanted to share. An original design, made from scratch, by one person. The jewels, sapphire crystals, hairspring, mainspring and the strap were all that were purchased. Everything else was hand made. Feedback is always welcome so let me know what you think...
Your photos reveal a lot of private information. In this experiment, we use Google Vision API to extract the story behind a single photo.
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Entropy is a measure of disorder or randomness in the universe, and it's always increasing, making it impossible to achieve perfect efficiency or control. Despite this, scientists are rethinking entropy as a relative concept that depends on an observer's knowledge and resources, and they're exploring ways to harness the power of information to create more efficient machines and understand the universe.
macOS 15.2 broke the replicator, causing a Resource Busy error when copying the Data volume. Until Apple fixes the bug, use "Backup - all files" with "Smart Update" to copy everything but the OS.
The author built a custom LLM inference engine from scratch using C++ and CUDA to learn about the full stack of LLM inference and optimize its performance. Through various optimizations, including parallelization, quantization, and memory coalescing, the author achieved close to state-of-the-art performance for local, completion-only, single-batch, single-GPU inference on one model.
Create a draft PR to prototype and test ideas, then stage clean PRs incrementally. This approach encourages hacking, prototyping, and learning, rather than relying on outdated design documents.
Our Figma kit streamlines design with intuitive tools and customizable components. It saves time and boosts creativity with reusable, adaptable elements and seamless content addition.
Buzee is an 8-year-old labrador retriever and a full-text search application for local files. It uses Tauri and Tantivy for efficient search and has a complex codebase with various technologies learned over two years.
IRATA.ONLINE is a retro-computing platform providing a social development experience with multi-user capabilities and 24-bit color support. It utilizes the TUTOR language and offers a terminal emulator called PLATOTERM for various platforms.
Chord Nebula is a game that helps piano players learn chords and progressions using a MIDI device. It's still under development, but you can join the mailing list for updates and access the project source on GitHub.
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htmx has released several updates with new features, bug fixes, and improvements to accessibility and security. The updates include support for generalized inline event handling, view transitions, and new attributes for swapping and replacing content.
WebGL and WebGPU are rendering APIs that allow web applications to render GPU-accelerated graphics, with WebGPU still in the experimental stage but supporting certain features not available in WebGL. Svader is a library that provides components for using WebGL and WebGPU in web applications, including WebGlShader and WebGpuShader components for rendering fragment shaders.
uv is a single tool replacing multiple Python package managers and tools. It manages dependencies, environments, and publishing with features like lockfiles and version overrides.
Microsoft plans to end password era, blocks 7,000 attacks per second, and promotes passkeys for improved security. Passkeys offer faster and more secure sign-in with biometric access and PIN code, eliminating forgotten passwords and one-time codes.
The 1955 Le Mans disaster killed 83 people and injured over 100 after a Mercedes car crashed into a crowd, with many blaming driver Mike Hawthorn's reckless maneuver. The incident led to a major overhaul of safety standards in motorsport, with many tracks and events implementing new safety measures to prevent similar tragedies.
Microsoft opened a developers' center in Silicon Valley, prompting a Linux group to plan a protest. The group, SVLUG, peacefully protested outside the center, handing out Linux CDs and taking photos.
The author compares single-machine compute engines like DuckDB and Polars to Spark, finding that while they excel in certain areas, Spark remains the best choice for data processing due to its robust capabilities and scalability.
The project aims to supplement OpenTripPlanner with a single instance for planet-scale coverage, supporting GTFS-RT and pre-defined costing models. It may eventually support rRAPTOR routing for simultaneous itinerary calculation across various departure times.
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The author argues that government reform is necessary but difficult due to the complexities of law, policy, and bureaucracy, and that the current efforts by DOGE, led by Elon and Vivek, may not be the solution. The author suggests that change in government is hard to achieve, even with the involvement of billionaires, and that the real challenge lies in confronting entrenched interests and ...
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Kaggle CEO D. Scully announces the K Prize, a $1M competition to break 90% on a new version of SWE-bench. The competition uses a contamination-free version of the benchmark and open source code and models.
Vim is a language to interact with computers, simple and easy to learn. The Vim editor is its most complete implementation, allowing users to swap infrastructure while keeping the language.
The author discusses three napkin algorithms - dimensional analysis, Fermi estimates, and random walks - to solve various physics problems, including the length of the E. coli genome, the mass of a proton, and the terminal velocity of water droplets in a cloud. The author argues that these algorithms embody the "hacker spirit" of creativity, play, and understanding, and suggests that they can ...
The Portuguese man-o'-war is a unique, colonial organism composed of four or five distinct animals, each with its own nervous system, and is highly venomous and toxic due to its stinging tentacles and carbon monoxide production. It has five species, with cryptic diversity, and is parasitized by the bluebottle fish, which eats its tentacles and gonads.
The author proposes a new interaction mode for large models, treating them as computers rather than people, to improve discoverability, efficiency, and user control. This model-as-computer metaphor enables direct manipulation and visual interfaces, allowing users to interact with models in real-time.
The author discusses the benefits of array programming languages like J and APL, comparing them to Clojure, and explores how they can be used to solve mathematical problems in a concise and readable way. The author also highlights the importance of understanding the true problem being solved, rather than just the stated requirements, and notes that Clojure's flexibility and extensibility make ...
PLATO was a pioneering educational computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois, featuring interactive lessons, games, and messaging, and it played a significant role in shaping modern computer-aided education and technology. Although PLATO's commercial ventures failed, its legacy lives on through various preserved systems and modern applications that continue to ...
A user successfully installed an M.2 socket on the Pi 500 by adding components and power. They used a bench power supply to enable the PCIe connection and set it to Gen 3 speed in the boot config.
YouTube removed links from embedded videos to protect advertisers and increase ad revenue, forcing publishers to choose between ad control and links. Publishers like Vox Media must use a standard YouTube player to have links, but this means giving up ad revenue and control.
Voxon's VLED technology creates real-time interactive volumetric holograms viewable from 360 degrees. The VX2-XL delivers an unparalleled volumetric experience for commercial use in museums, entertainment, and education.
A language should balance power and safety, not trade one for the other. Expressive languages can provide power without sacrificing safety, making them more reliable and trustworthy.
Server-side rendering of web components is possible and can be achieved through various methods including using custom elements, CSS web components, and HTML web components without JavaScript. However, most resources for server-side rendering web components are tied to specific libraries and frameworks, which can limit interoperability and make components dependent on toolchain entropy.
IBM developed the Color/Graphics Adapter (CGA) for its IBM PC in 1980-81, which displayed 16 colors via a digital video port. The evolution of color 6, commonly referred to as brown, varied across different monitors and graphics adapters.
User had trouble with Magic MIFARE cards not being read by iPhones, but found a solution by writing arbitrary data to the card using an iPhone with NFC Tools app. This process puts the card into a state that iPhones can recognize, allowing normal NDEF record writing.
Managing Python dependencies is complex and requires careful consideration of project-specific packages, system packages, operating system, hardware, and environment dependencies. Good dependency management involves using a version control system, isolating the environment, and using tools like pip, virtualenv, pip-tools, pipenv, Poetry, and uv to manage dependencies and ensure reproducibility.
South Korea's parliament impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over martial law decree. Yoon's powers suspended, Constitutional Court to decide his fate within 180 days.
The user discovered OS/2's virtualization features, which allow running DOS in a new window without relying on DOS-specific code. This feature is similar to modern hypervisors and exposes the functionality to the user, allowing for experimentation with emulated devices.
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.
The user is switching from Go to Java due to frustration with Go's mechanics and philosophy, citing issues with error handling, lack of built-in functionality, and opinionated design. They find Go too simplistic and boring for complex software development.
A new WebAssembly backend is introduced to address performance and development issues with the old one. It co-exists with the old backend, but will be the primary target with ongoing feature additions.
A new HDMI standard, rumored as HDMI 2.2, is set to launch at CES 2025 with higher bandwidths and resolutions. It may support 8K at 120 Hz and 10K at higher frame rates without compression.
Surfer Protocol is an open-source framework for exporting and building applications off personal data. It provides a Python SDK and Desktop App for reclaiming data from big tech and creating custom applications.
Larry Mullen Jr, U2's drummer, has dyscalculia, a learning difficulty affecting numeracy, making it hard for him to count and add numbers. He revealed his diagnosis, saying it explains the "pained" look on his face while drumming due to struggling to count bars.
The US healthcare system is broken due to corporate capture of regulatory agencies, insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, and hospitals prioritizing profits over patient care. Misdirected criticism of insurance companies alone will not solve the problem, requiring a comprehensive overhaul of the system.
Scientists discovered that molecular motors in chromosomes not only form loops but also twist DNA. This new property helps understand chromosome structure and function, and may explain developmental diseases like cohesinopathies.
The author proposes the Baby Money Index (BMI) to rate countries, which is GDP per capita multiplied by fertility rate squared. The top 3 countries according to BMI are oil/gas-rich or tax havens, with the US performing exceptionally well.
The user prefers a flexible, iterative approach to software development, focusing on writing code directly and experimenting with different solutions rather than planning extensively. They value simplicity, consistency, and ease of use in their development process, aiming to minimize restart times and maximize feedback loops.
Ryan shares Evan's engineering career story from new grad to Staff Engineer at Meta in 3 years, highlighting 6 key principles for career growth. These principles include mastering speed, operating above your level, embracing uncertainty, focusing on simple solutions, building goodwill, and staying positive.
Training generative models involves copying copyrighted data, potentially infringing on copyrights unless it qualifies as fair use. Four factors determine fair use, and none of them clearly support ChatGPT's use of its training data.
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.
Fantasy maps have become a staple of the genre, often featuring vast, uncharted lands to the west and mysterious, exotic cultures to the east, reflecting a Eurocentric and colonialist mental geography. These maps serve as a form of wish fulfillment, allowing readers to explore a world without the guilt and consequences of real-world colonialism, and often feature a "west" that is unknown and ...
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new open standard for connecting LLMs with external tools and data, but it has limitations and room for improvement. The user suggests several enhancements to MCP, including an official registry and features for async work, sessionizing, and multiplayer interactions.
Researchers found that exporting agricultural products from tropical regions causes three times more biodiversity loss than previously assumed. The main affected countries are Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, and Madagascar, with China being the leading importer.
The author models attention as electromagnetic field dynamics, suggesting it's a dynamic pattern in the brain's electromagnetic field shaped by resonant modes. This framework may explain attention's controllable and uncontrollable aspects and has implications for psychedelic phenomenology and potential cyberdelic interventions.
Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is a community-driven, fully free operating system with a focus on stability, security, and simplicity. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and aims to provide a Long Term Support (LTS) system.
The user compares social media platforms to dying malls, citing their artificial nature and inability to create lasting communities. They predict a decline in social media usage as people seek healthier alternatives, just as malls fell out of favor.
me_cleaner is a Python script that modifies Intel ME firmware to reduce its interaction with the system. It currently works on most Intel platforms, disabling ME during normal operation.
The author discusses optimism in computing, focusing on simplicity, ease of use, and local-first software. They argue that good software should be a utility that works without requiring user intervention.
Law enforcement agencies took down 27 DDoS platforms worldwide, disrupting cybercriminals and hacktivists. However, experts question the long-term effectiveness of such takedowns due to cybercriminals' adaptability and ability to set up new services.
Asynchronous Rust programming is a powerful tool for embedded systems, allowing for concurrent code with a small memory footprint and cooperative scheduling, but it also has downsides such as complexity and lack of priorities. The Embassy project is a popular async executor for embedded systems that provides a full suite of synchronization primitives and a small footprint, making it suitable ...
Russian school in Pechenga had a wall with US-made F-16 fighter jets, sparking criticism. The school removed the pictures, replacing them with Russian Su-57 fighter jets to avoid misinterpretation.
Fujitsu's Monaka CPU has 144 cores, 12 DDR5 channels, and PCIe 6.0 support, targeting general datacenter market. It features a unique design with disaggregated SRAM and compute, fabbed on a 2nm process for improved thermal management.
CenterClick offers NTP server appliances for synchronization without internet, trusted by over 25 countries. Products are available for direct purchase with free shipping in the USA and quantity discounts.
User is optimizing MacOS performance for Anukari, a latency-sensitive application. They've implemented a workaround to force the GPU to up-clock by dedicating a warp to useless computation, achieving a 40% latency reduction.
Low-cost TVOC sensors are useful for detecting general changes in air quality but struggle to provide precise absolute values due to limitations in sensitivity and accuracy. They can help identify new VOC sources and detect fluctuations tied to external factors, but more advanced instruments are needed for detailed insights.
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Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge improved SQLite's performance by up to 100x using asynchronous I/O with io_uring. They rewrote SQLite in Rust, decoupling query and storage engines for maximum resource usage.
The relationship between humans and machines is evolving as machines become more organic and complex, challenging our ability to understand and imitate them through art. As technology advances, humans tend to view themselves as more human and others as less human, with each generation forming its own self-models based on the complexity of the machines it encounters.
The Datasaurus dozen is a collection of 13 data sets with identical statistics but different distributions and appearances. It was created using simulated annealing to illustrate the importance of graphical analysis over basic statistics.
Nasdaq announced the reconstitution of the Nasdaq-100 Index with Palantir, MicroStrategy, and Axon added and Illumina, Super Micro, and Moderna removed. The changes will take effect on December 23, 2024.
Newton Public Schools implemented multilevel classrooms to address inequality, but teachers report poor results and student needs unmet. Teachers and staff are calling for a return to single-level classes due to lack of data showing benefits and increased stress.
Functional programming makes code easier to reason about and maintain by making state explicit and avoiding side effects. Even in non-functional languages like C++, adopting a functional style can improve code quality and safety, especially in multithreaded environments.