The user tested OpenAI's o3 model by guessing the location of a photo taken in El Granada, California. The model correctly identified the Central Coast of California but incorrectly pinpointed the location as Cambria, 200 miles off.
Spermatic vein backflow is not the new part of their theory. ideal would be valve repair or replacement, but not on vein valves, says dr. sanjay gupta, author of the paper cited above. the ideal is to replace the valve with a catheter, he says, and it won't last forever if it fails - as some have suggested 'in the womb' venous
Two families with US citizen children were deported from New Orleans without access to lawyers or medical care, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother. ICE's actions are being condemned as a blatant violation of due process and basic human rights.
The project is a 32-bit operating system for i386 architecture with networking capabilities, built with C, Assembly, and C++. It supports cross-platform compilation using Docker and QEMU.
The "Friendship Recession" is a cultural shift where Americans are prioritizing work and family over friendships, leading to a decline in meaningful relationships. To combat this, individuals must take initiative to form and sustain connections through shared experiences and rituals, rather than relying on digital interactions.
A 2D cloth Verlet simulation made in Rust
Sam Jordison, co-director of Galley Beggar Press, reflects on his book series Crap Towns, which listed the worst places in the UK. He wonders if such a book could be published today due to changing attitudes towards humor and identity politics.
Smartphones are not secretly listening to users, but companies like Facebook and Google are tracking users through various data points to serve targeted ads. This data collection is often more complex and unsettling than the initial "listening" conspiracy theory.
A 24-year-old Australian man received a two-year good behavior bond for ordering and possessing radioactive materials without permits. The judge considered his mental health issues and lack of malicious intent, despite a major hazmat incident in August 2023.
Researchers created Berkeley Humanoid Lite, an open-source humanoid robot with a modular 3D-printed gearbox, to promote democratization in humanoid robotics. The robot's design emphasizes modularity, ease of fabrication, and cost-effectiveness, with a total hardware cost under $5,000.
Backblaze (nasdaq:blze) is a $250 million cloud storage and backup solution provider. former senior director of fp&a, huey hall, claims he refused to sign off on the company's financial reports on "at least three separate written occasions" the stock tumbled 26% after the resignation announcement, allowing budman to perfectly time his sale to avoid significant losses. in q2 2024, ...
Mobygratis provides free instrumental music for all creators. It offers three free format options: stereo MP3, stereo WAV, and multitrack WAV.
User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.
Mark Zuckerberg's own words are being used against him in the FTC's antitrust trial against Meta, with the government attempting to prove that he bought Instagram and Whatsapp to extinguish competitors.
We used Newlib to create a compact C standard library for a bare metal system on RISC-V, implementing UART primitives and passing them to Newlib to build a full printf functionality. We set up a cross-compiler toolchain, configured it to use Newlib, and built a minimal C runtime to run on the bare metal system, allowing us to use printf and other C standard library functions.
The code downloads and uses several datasets including MS-COCO and Clotho for image captioning, and evaluates the performance of the MILS method on these datasets. The code also uses audio and video captioning to convert audio and video to text, and then combines the captions to generate high-quality images using a language model.
A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell admitted using AI in a brief with nearly 30 defective citations. The lawyer, Christopher Kachouroff, must explain why the court should not sanction him and his law firm for violating professional conduct rules.
A Japanese court ordered Amazon Japan to pay 35 million yen in damages for failing to stop counterfeit products on its platform. Amazon was found to be obliged to take effective measures against counterfeits, with a lawyer calling the ruling a landmark for platform accountability.
Dolt's SQL engine performs steps from parsing to result spooling, including binding, simplification, and join planning. The engine uses intermediate representations to optimize query execution, including join costing and execution with tiered storage and result spooling.
stuffed-naan encodes data as NaNs, preserving it in math operations and compressing data by 25%. It's fast, privacy-first, and can't be copied without losing data.
BART introduced anime mascots Mira, Jasmine, Baylee, and Nimbus to promote public transportation use among youth riders. The mascots were created by California-based artists following a 2022 open call and are available as merchandise on railgoods.com.
The internet has become evil due to companies commoditizing user attention through algorithms that prioritize engagement over user experience. RSS readers offer a chance to reclaim attention through open tech, requiring a skill and routine to curate valuable content.
Tilt automates microservice development by watching files, building container images, and updating the environment. It supports various languages and has community resources for configuration and contribution.
Microsoft added an Easter egg to their BASIC interpreter for the Commodore PET, which printed "MICROSOFT!" when typing "WAIT6502,1".
Mathematicians Yu Deng, Zaher Hani, and Xiao Ma have made a breakthrough in unifying three physical theories that explain fluid motion. Their work, which justifies the equations governing fluid dynamics, is a major stride toward grounding physics in math.
The narrator's dad was an inventor who built a device called the Egg Controller to control the temperature of a Big Green Egg barbecue. The narrator struggled to understand the device's interface but eventually figured it out and successfully used it to cook a pork shoulder for a memorial lunch.
Bluesky's decentralized service experienced a near-total outage due to a DDOS attack on its PDSs, but users running their own PDSs were unaffected. The company's explanation of a simultaneous attack on all PDSs seems unlikely, suggesting interdependency or shared resources may be the real issue.
A hacker exploited an outdated software package on 4chan's server via a bogus PDF upload, gaining access to database and admin dashboard. 4chan's development team has replaced the breached server, updated software, and brought on additional volunteers to prevent future breaches.
El Salvador's state of exception has led to dozens of inmate deaths due to torture, beatings, and lack of medical attention. Cristosal's investigation found 153 deaths in state custody, with 29 violent deaths and 46 probable violent deaths.
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The UK government investigates the Office for National Statistics due to errors in its data. Poor global economic data have lost investor trust.
The Dalai Lama's concept suggests humans transform into new versions every seven years due to cell replacement. This perspective encourages focusing on the present moment, releasing past burdens and favoring future selves.
A researcher at Xerox PARC used a rubber duck to explain problems to colleagues, who would hold it while listening. The phrase "hold my duck" meant to listen without commenting, helping the researcher think through the problem.
John Perry Barlow shared his 1977 list of 25 principles for adult behavior, including being patient, not badmouthing others, and tolerating ambiguity. He asks friends to hold him accountable for these principles as he continues to work on becoming a better person.
California's fast-food minimum wage law increased wages by 8-9% without job losses or large price increases. The law raised the minimum wage to $20 an hour for 750,000 employees, with costs rising by 1.5% on average.
Google is ending support for its first and second generation Nest Learning Thermostats in October 2025. Users can get a discount on newer models or third-party devices that work with Google Home.
The US National Science Foundation's director Sethuraman Panchanathan resigned amid turmoil over budget cuts and restructuring. Hundreds of research grants were terminated, with some staff members offered early retirement incentives due to a 55% budget cut and 50% workforce reduction.
Humanoid robots are being developed by numerous companies, with some raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, but they still struggle with dexterity and manipulation.
HTTP feeds allow asynchronous decoupling of systems without message brokers, using a client that fetches events with a lastEventId query parameter. The server supports long polling for lower latency and uses a time-ordered UUIDv6 or database sequence as event ID for strong ordering.
CosAE is a novel autoencoder that uses Fourier series with a neural network to encode images with extreme spatial compression without losing detail. It surpasses state-of-the-art approaches in super-resolution and blind image restoration tasks.
The ucbvax computer at UC Berkeley was retired after 16 years of service, with a ceremony held to honor its history and contributions. It will be repurposed as a card-key access system controller for the UC Police department.
Original source code, written in Fortran, from the very first text adventure game in the videogames history (1976). I collected some other goodies from around the internet (maps, walkthroughs...). Even executables for Windows & Mac OS ! I heard about the game in the Halt & Catch Fire TV series. Googled it a bit and found the original src. This repository is for educational purposes only.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is shutting down the Primary School in California's Bay Area at the end of the 2025-26 school year due to lack of funding support. The school, which combined healthcare and education for low-income students, will receive a $50 million donation from CZI to support affected families.
AgenticSeek is a local AI assistant that runs entirely on your device, providing complete privacy and zero cloud dependency, with features like smart web browsing, autonomous coding, and voice-enabled interface. To use AgenticSeek, you need to set up the config.ini file, start required services, and customize the agent's name and settings for optimal recognition and functionality.
Solar Orbiter captured a detailed view of the Sun's million-degree hot atmosphere, combining 200 individual images in ultraviolet light. The image shows glowing coronal loops, dark filaments, and prominences in the Sun's messy magnetic field.
A script is created in a module directory with a lengthy Git command to output the Git log with formatting. The script is stored in a file named 'l Log' in the 'g Git' subdirectory and can be accessed using the expander tool with key shortcuts.
A Slinky coil can be used as a compact, lightweight antenna for various frequencies. It can be stretched to different lengths and used as a dipole or helical antenna.
The author reviewed the base M4 Mac Mini and was surprised by its gaming performance. With CrossOver, a Windows compatibility layer, they were able to run games like Counter-Strike 2, Diablo 4, and Black Myth Wukong at decent frame rates.
David perry: looming a.i. disruptions to higher education are a big deal. he says students at utah are working on projects that can help them explore their own thoughts - and their worlds. perries: these systems have the power to return us to ourselves in new ways. give them work they want to do, and it is to live with them, if you will, says terry o'bri
A major time-tracking company WorkComposer leaked millions of sensitive screenshots on the open internet, putting users at risk of identity theft and data breaches. The leak was discovered by Cybernews in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, exposing over 21 million images.
TSVP has advantages over CSV and TSV due to its simpler parsing and alignment capabilities. It uses a pipe character to separate cells and allows for row continuations and comments.
Consumer giants like Pepsi, Kimberly-Clark, and Procter & Gamble are cutting forecasts due to lower sales and profits. Tariffs and trade war uncertainty are causing anxious shoppers to cut back on spending.
A new study found that women can judge friendship potential with others based on scent, with consistent preferences shown in a "Speed-Friending" event. The study suggests that scent plays a role in forming platonic friendships, with participants showing a strong correlation between in-person evaluations and scent-based ratings.
User ran a mail server from 1995 to 2019, but found it difficult due to modern security requirements. They now use NNCPNET, a modern email system that uses NNCP as transport, offering sender verification and easy setup.
goenums is a tool that generates comprehensive enum implementations from simple constant declarations in Go. It supports string conversion, validation, JSON handling, and database integration.
The author explores using DOS as a standalone writing environment, booting it from a USB drive using a hypervisor like VirtualBox. They created a bootable DOS USB key with popular writing apps like MS Word and Arnor Protext, and share the image files on GitHub.
A publicly available kit for a QO-100 satellite project, SDR Television, has been released after 18 months of work. It's a proof of concept for a full-duplex DATV solution on an x86 computer, with future updates planned to extend its features.
Commodore OS Vision 3.0 is a free, fan-made Linux distribution based on Debian Bookworm, featuring 200+ games and classic Commodore content. It offers a retro futuristic experience with a BASIC implementation, emulation, and a settings manager for configuring ROMs and emulation.
The text discusses a physics approach called the principle of least action, where minimizing the action leads to the path a physical system will take. This approach is applied to a simple toy problem of a free body in a gravitational field.
Cartographers use projections like Mercator to map the globe, but they introduce distortion, exaggerating polar countries and downplaying equatorial ones. An app shows the true size of Africa, nearly 14 times larger than Greenland, to correct this misconception.
The user created a new configuration file format called CONL, which aims to be minimal, unambiguous, and easy to read and parse, with features like newlines as delimiters and markdown-like multiline strings. CONL has a stable format and working implementations in Rust and Go, and the user encourages others to use and port it to their favorite language.
A record-breaking 18km tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany, slashing travel times and improving Scandinavia's links with Europe. The €7.4bn project will be completed in 2029, reducing travel times and carbon emissions.
The user discusses the mixed reactions to AI-generated content, suggesting that people's views are influenced by their profession, with artists and programmers having different perspectives on AI art and code. The user argues that the issue is not about the technology itself, but about the impact it has on people's livelihoods and the need for a plan to help those displaced by AI advancements.
A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell admitted using AI in a brief with nearly 30 defective citations. The lawyer, Christopher Kachouroff, must explain why the court should not sanction him and his law firm for violating professional conduct rules.
This template engine is used with Rocal framework but can be used anywhere in Rust. It supports variables, if-else control, for-loop control, and string interpolation.
Cassettes are making a comeback in Argentina's indie and punk scenes, offering a tangible emotional connection to music. The resurgence of cassettes highlights how nostalgia, identity, and tangibility influence purchasing decisions, especially in subcultures and alternative value systems.
Ruma, a South Korean university student, was targeted by deepfake sex crimes on Telegram, receiving edited photos of her face on naked bodies with vulgar comments. The police made 23 arrests out of 964 reported cases, and Ruma helped identify the perpetrators through a sting operation.
Fire regimes in the levant could both influence and be influenced by the neolithic agricultural revolution, according to a new study. the peak is less sharp than the charcoal and carbon peaks, yet it appears across all the mediterranean zone of the southern levant, from mt. hermon in north to the judean backbone hills in south - see figs. 1 and 2 below. an additional feature of mis 5e event ...