Apple user experiences significant lag and overheating with iPad Air 11" M2 running iPadOS 18.1 and 18.3.1. Software quality decline raises concerns about Apple's prioritization of new features over optimization and user experience.
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You created an animated stick figure that walks up and down the side of a page when scrolled, and plan to make a skateboarder, rock climber, or squirrel next. You're looking for ideas on other scroll buddies to create.
Nvidia's AI chip production relies on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The US is investing $100 billion to secure chip supply chain with domestic manufacturing.
The course builds a mathematical framework for generative AI models from first principles, focusing on diffusion and flow-based models for continuous data. Students will gain hands-on experience with stochastic differential equations and build a toy image diffusion model from scratch.
Tetmon: Hiring QA Automation Engineer for remote full-time position to expand end-to-end tests for application, with experience in Python and TypeScript.
Rivet is a new open-source serverless platform that's been exploring SQLite-on-the-server. They argue that SQLite shines at scale, not just in small hobbyist deployments.
The top 10% of earners own 84% of private businesses, 44% of real estate, and two-thirds of overall wealth, with their spending increasing by 12% between September 2023 and 2024. This concentration of wealth makes the economy riskier and harder to understand, with the author predicting it will only get worse.
He had a timeline of his favorite authors, moving his face forward each year, but failed to publish a novel before 30. He realized that being young is a shortcut to greatness, but as he aged, his mistakes became flaws of character.
James Harrison, known as the "Man with the Golden Arm," has died at 88 after donating blood and plasma 1,173 times, saving 2.4 million babies. His plasma contained a rare antibody used to prevent a potentially fatal disease in newborns.
The UK is facing a severe energy shortage and affordability crisis due to outdated laws and regulations that hinder construction and infrastructure development. The country needs comprehensive reform to unlock private investment in housing and energy, including overhauling the Town and Country Planning Act and reducing frivolous lawsuits.
Google Chrome will warn users about uBlock Origin's deprecation due to Manifest v2 support ending. A pared-down version, uBlock Origin Lite, is available but lacks many features.
This week-end project started by browsing the open-data repository of Paris’ public transport network, which contains various APIs to query real-time departures, current disruptions, etc. The data reuse section caught my eye, as it features external projects that use this open data. In particular, the RATP status website provides a really nice interface to visualize historical disruptions on ...
Welcome to part 2 of the Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor blog series. In this part I’ll cover how I found and exploited bugs in the Xbox 360 hypervisor to get full code execution and create the “Bad Update” exploit. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend you read (or at least skim through) part 1 as this post will reference a lot of the material discussed there. As I mentioned in part 1, ...
The GDPNow model is a nowcasting tool that forecasts real GDP growth using a "bridge equation" approach and is updated six or seven times a month. It is not an official forecast of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, its president, or the FOMC, and its accuracy is comparable to professional forecasters.
Google Fuchsia's component framework is similar to Linux container solutions like Docker, but with key differences. This talk will explore where and why these two technologies diverge in their design and use cases.
The user's journey with math involved overconfidence, failure, and eventual mastery through structured learning, leading to a newfound passion and expertise. With persistence and the right tools, the user overcame past failures and achieved a high level of competence in math.
agents.json is an open specification that describes contracts for API and agent interactions, built on top of the OpenAPI standard. It enables AI agents to interact with APIs reliably by providing a structured contract for API calls and interactions.
We added Dynamic Binary Modification to the Hopc AoT JavaScript compiler to improve performance, but it didn't shorten execution times on x86_64 architectures. This result suggests that compiler optimizations may not be worth the effort if the processor can already accelerate the code.
LeFooding.com reviews are used to create a network of French restaurants and staff, with nodes representing entities and edges representing relationships. A structured generation model like OpenAI's gpt4o-mini is used to extract information from reviews and build a graph with over 5000 nodes and edges, allowing for visualization and analysis of the culinary network.
The document explains how PostgreSQL works and provides a whole picture of the system, written by an experienced software developer and technical manager. It can be freely used for non-commercial purposes, but requires permission for commercial use.
I am a senior platform engineer contractor with 10+ years experience working for large enterprises building and operating container-based internal platforms-as-a-service, looking for a director or project manager position, or as a software architect, preferably in Boston. I have extensive experience in various technologies including Kubernetes, Go, Ruby, Python, Rust, Bash, and most platform ...
The module provides a pure Go implementation of attention mechanisms and transformer layers for high performance and ease of use. It's suitable for edge computing due to its dependency-free nature.
Nissan has stopped taking orders for the R35 GT-R in Japan, its last surviving market. The R35 lived a full life with over 600bhp, winning titles in GT1, Super GT, and GT3 series.
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FlakeUI is a unique graph interface for HTML pages with fractal structure, allowing users to navigate and zoom content. It uses gestures and XML files to arrange content, ideal for curated web links and mobile start pages.
The user struggled to obtain data from the City of Chicago's CANVAS system through FOIA requests due to lack of clarity on what data exists. The user's goal is to make it easier to request data through FOIA by allowing SQL statements to be sent to agencies for them to run.
The US government is now using taxpayer dollars to buy up cryptocurrencies, revealing that crypto boosters have been self-serving in their claims of crypto's value outside of government control. This move may lead to a collapse of the crypto market, causing widespread economic damage.
The user spent a day debugging a bug in a parquet viewer that crashed when accessing S3, but eventually found the issue was with Chrome's range request optimization, which was not a bug but a feature. The user reported the issue to the Chromium team, but they refused to fix it, and instead suggested that the application code should handle the partial data response.
The user had a bad experience with MALIBAL, a Linux hardware company, due to their unprofessional behavior and unreasonable expectations. MALIBAL's behavior included insults, accusations, and attempts to ban entire countries from their services, as well as a history of similar incidents with other companies.
The Sonauto API allows users to generate music with various options such as tags, lyrics, and prompts, and also provides endpoints for extending and inpainting existing songs. Users can retrieve the status of their generation requests and download the final generated song, but note that songs will be deleted from the servers after one week.
Onyx is an AI platform connecting to company docs, apps, and people with a feature-rich chat interface and 40+ connectors. It offers scalable deployment options and a free Community Edition under the MIT Expat license.
Mitsubishi is a name shared by three different companies: a keiretsu of companies, a pencil manufacturer, and a cider producer. The Mitsubishi Corporate Name and Trademark Committee regulates the use of the name and logo to prevent confusion.
SAP paid former CTO Jürgen Müller €7.1 million after he left by mutual agreement following an incident at a company event. SAP also paid €12.6 million to Scott Russell and €9 million to Julia White after they exited their roles.
This tutorial teaches how to solve Differential Equations using the DifferentialEquations.jl package in Julia, focusing on translating first-order DEs to Julia and solving them using the library's high-level API. It covers basic concepts, examples, and implementation of DEs, including radioactive decay and temperature cooling, using the ODEProblem solver.
Amazon's drone delivery in College Station, Texas, faced opposition due to noise concerns and potential property value impact. The company has since relocated and reduced flights, with residents noticing a return of wildlife and peace in the area.
This paper discusses modularization as a mechanism for improving the flexibility and comprehensibility of a system while allowing the shortening of its development time. The effectiveness of a "modularization" is dependent upon the criteria used in dividing the system into modules. A system design problem is presented and both a conventional and unconventional decomposition are described. It ...
A fertiliser contaminated with PFAS was spread on adjacent farmland in Johnson County, Texas, causing illness in farmers and death in livestock and fish. The EPA has set national drinking water standards for six PFAS, but biosolids regulation remains a concern.
Beavers to return to England's rivers, helping create wetlands and reduce flood peaks.
Urban Dead will shut down on March 14, 2025, due to UK's Online Safety Act. The game will be switched off at noon UTC with no grand finale.
The article presents a robust OBJ parser in C that can handle vertices, normals, and triangle faces with normals, and supports relative indexing and negative indices. The parser uses an arena for memory management, and includes functions for parsing integers and floats from strings, and for rendering the model using OpenGL 1.1.
Researchers introduced A-MEM, an agentic memory system for LLM agents that dynamically organizes memories. It outperforms existing baselines in empirical experiments on six foundation models.
Scientists at the University of Utah created a large aperture flat lens that focuses light as effectively as traditional curved lenses while preserving accurate color. This technology could transform astrophotography imaging systems, especially in space-constrained applications like aircraft and space-based telescopes.
Permacomputing is a community and concept challenging industrial computing's environmental and societal issues with a focus on resilience and regenerativity. It's an anti-capitalist project driven by anarchism, decoloniality, and ecologism, inviting collective rethinking of computational culture.
Yong Hee and Gunwoo from Cuckoo, a real-time AI translator, offer a solution for global sales, marketing, and support teams to avoid language barriers. Cuckoo works by inviting a bot to Zoom meetings, providing contextual translations and live transcripts.
The US risks falling behind in drone technology due to outdated FAA regulations, while Europe's proactive regulations have enabled drone startups like Manna to thrive. A commercial drone ecosystem in the US could unlock innovation, supply-chain resilience, and economic growth, positioning the country better for future national security challenges.
A humanoid robot in China's Tianjin unexpectedly displayed aggressive behavior during the Lunar New Year festival, prompting concerns about public safety and robot deployment. The incident highlights the need for regulatory and safety measures to govern robot-human interactions and ensure public confidence in robotic technology.
The Treasury Department is temporarily halting Corporate Transparency Act penalties and will narrow the rule to foreign companies. This change aims to support American taxpayers and small businesses by reducing regulatory burdens.
The Kinect, a motion-sensing camera, was initially a gaming sensation but failed to live up to expectations due to a lack of games and reliability issues. However, it found new life in various fields such as art, robotics, and ghost hunting.
A Windows desktop AI assistant built in Python. Assistant (without tools) is ~1000 lines of python code, with super simple chat UI inspired by the original AI, SmarterChild. Uses Windows COM automation to interface with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), Images, and your file system. Perfect for Windows users looking to explore AI-powered desktop automation.
The user replaced ERB views with Phlex in a Rails application, including Action Mailer, to write HTML and email templates in pure Ruby. This allowed them to manage HTML and text versions in one place, use Phlex components for layouts and views, and remove all ERB files from the app.
Researchers propose a single-line modification to momentum-based optimizers, called cautious optimizer, which preserves Adam's convergence guarantee and speeds up transformer pretraining up to 1.47 times. Empirical experiments show better results in LLM post-training tasks using the cautious optimizer.
After 26 years in law enforcement, I was ready to retire early and reinvent myself as a fine artist. Why not? I’d been drawing since I was a boy, and then I moonlighted as an editorial cartoonist for two newspapers during my police career. Then, I dove into landscape painting. I took several vacations to travel to Idaho and study oil painting with Scott L. Christensen, one of the preeminent ...
Bocoup has transitioned to a cooperative model with worker-owners focusing on public-interest technology. They will continue to prioritize interoperability, accessibility, and testing while emphasizing tools that resist capture and safeguard privacy.
Evaluations for AI systems are flawed as a guarantee of software performance due to limitations in data, scoring, and system evaluation. They provide limited information about a system's performance in real-world scenarios and can be misleading due to the long tail problem.
Researchers and companies are developing new AI models and hardware to improve scientific research and computing capabilities. Various breakthroughs and collaborations are being made in AI, quantum computing, and high-performance computing.
Example: Creates end to end tests and iterates off of gradle runs
Google's Chrome browser dominates the market with its Blink engine, giving Google near complete control over the web. This has led to concerns about Google's influence and the need for healthy competition and diversity in browser engines.
The author reminisces about learning to program on the IBM 650, a machine that allowed them to develop problem-solving skills and mental abstractions. The 650's limitations forced them to think creatively and laid the foundation for their future success in computer programming.
Vivian Maier was a secret photographer who took 150,000 pictures in Chicago from the 1950s until her death in 2009. Her covert work was discovered in 2007 and now she is considered a giant of American street photography.
Employers typically verify basic information such as education and employment history but may not thoroughly investigate job titles or work experience. Fakery on resumes can sometimes go undetected until later in the hiring process or even after employment.
Claire, Founder & CEO of Canopy, shares strategies for handling challenging employees, including the Cultural Cornerstone, Passive Resister, Technical Genius, Excuse Artist, and Unpredictable Performer. By understanding the root basis of these patterns and responding effectively, leaders can positively coach difficult employees and maintain a healthy, high-performing team culture.
Christopher Hoult, a 20-year web tech veteran, offers technical architecture, management, and integration services to startups and scaleups. He works remotely with hourly or monthly rates, focusing on fractional roles.
4Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Republic of Korea Introduction: Chewing has been reported to enhance cognitive function through the increase in cerebral blood flow. However, the mechanisms linking cerebral blood flow increase to metabolic changes in the brain affecting cognition remain unclear. We hypothesized that ...
Researchers developed SepLLM to accelerate inference in Large Language Models by compressing segments between special tokens. SepLLM achieves a 50% reduction in KV cache with negligible performance compromise.
Christian Smith Jr. went undercover in Saskatoon's Chinatown in 1924 to expose cocaine dealers, leading to the arrest of five men and a woman. His experience informed his later career in public health, where he worked on addiction prevention and education programs.
TSMC plans to invest $100 billion in US chip manufacturing plants under a four-year deal with President Donald Trump. The investment aims to expand US semiconductor production and reduce reliance on Taiwan and other Asian countries.
Publicview fetches latest SEC filings for companies, allowing analysis and visualization. It supports computations, graph creation, and data export to various formats.
The app converts text to audio frequencies for transmission and reception through speakers and microphones. It uses start and end signatures to encode and decode the data in real-time.
Suppose you were hanging out at the Pentagon, having a coffee at the Ground Zero Cafe, talking with some five star general, and you casually ask "Does the US Military ever use pirated software?" The general would spit out his latte and laugh so hard that it might induce vomiting. If, after regaining his composure, he could even be bothered to deign the question with a response, he ...
The user has developed a protocol to achieve decent results in school by optimizing health and mental state, using AI tools to analyze and memorize lecture slides, and practicing active recall. They take tests by skimming the whole test, relying on intuition, and focusing on the hardest questions last, and believe that their approach is not sustainable for everyone but can be adapted to suit ...
The author is designing a configuration language RCL, a gradually typed superset of JSON. They added floats to RCL, but it was challenging due to conflicting principles.
A JPEG Image Compression Service using Part Homomorphic Encryption. - qianfei11/ShadowyCompression
Anders Franzén discovered the Vasa, a 17th-century Swedish warship, in 1956. The ship was raised from the Stockholm harbor in 1961 after a five-year salvage operation.
The user built a real-time IoT device using an AMG8833 thermal imaging sensor to monitor a shared space, streaming data to S2 for durable storage and real-time updates. The estimated monthly cost for this project is around $2, with S2 providing a free and scalable solution for data processing and storage.
A German theologian named Gustav Adolf Deissmann discovered the Piri Reis map in 1929, a 14th-century Turkish admiral's map that accurately depicts coastlines of South America and Africa. The map's creator, Captain Piri ibn Hajji Mohammed Reis, used advanced navigation techniques and source materials from across the world to create a remarkably accurate chart.
The author proposes a design for a production-ready AI system that maximizes effectiveness per dollar, reduces dependency lock-in, and separates concerns down to their cores by using well-understood fundamentals like HTTP, queues, and object storage. This design, inspired by Taco Bell's efficient menu system, involves creating a nomadic compute system that dynamically mints and slays ...
Researchers introduced an order-centric data augmentation framework to improve large language models' logical reasoning. The framework enhances models' adaptability and performance on diverse logical structures through random premise shuffling and directed acyclic graph modeling.
The Hardham muralist challenges the viewer to question their relationship with art and reality, echoing ancient Greek artists who used deception to convey meaning. By adopting Parrhasios's curtain trick, the artist invites us to look beyond the surface of art and seek a deeper understanding of perception and the nature of reality.
Qodo-Embed-1 is a new code embedding model family that achieves state-of-the-art performance with a smaller footprint, outperforming larger models on the CoIR benchmark. It enables efficient code search and retrieval tasks by improving semantic alignment between code and queries.
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The US economy has become a scam where fake growth and value are created through financial manipulation, rather than actual production. To restore greatness, the US should attract high-value workers and back the dollar with gold, but this is unlikely to happen due to resistance and demoralization.