Indonesian government blocks Twitter, Discord, and WireGuard, restricting internet access. Alternative options include Tor, VPN services like Mullvad and ProtonVPN, and setting up own VPN on a VPS.
Researchers investigated the neurobiological effects of high ventilation breathwork (HVB) on subjective experiences and found correlations with cardiovascular sympathetic activation and cerebral perfusion changes. HVB induced altered states of consciousness, with the intensity of these states related to changes in regional cerebral blood flow and heart rate variability.
The user analyzes the costs of running AI inference at scale using a DeepSeek R1 model and finds that input processing is nearly free while output generation is expensive, resulting in a thousand-fold cost difference. This cost asymmetry explains why certain use cases, such as conversational agents and coding assistants, are highly profitable while others, like video generation, are expensive ...
People's confidence can be misplaced, making it hard to build personal brands around nuanced ideas. Researchers proposed encoding uncertainty into the type system to better capture reality's uncertainty.
The author argues that modern JavaScript frameworks are not the main cause of slow websites, but rather excessive tracking scripts and bad code. They suggest that not every site needs JavaScript and that CSS can be a powerful tool for styling and layout. The author highlights various modern CSS features that make writing CSS nicer, such as nesting, relative colors, and the Baseline project. ...
A study by Stanford University found a 13% decline in employment for workers aged 22-25 in AI-exposed jobs since 2022. The decline is attributed to AI replacing codified knowledge, affecting young workers in fields like customer service and software development.
A news story about a Russian developer's open source project sparked outrage, but the author argues most open source projects are maintained by one person, regardless of country. The author suggests focusing on supporting underpaid and overworked maintainers rather than demonizing them.
The author is concerned that surveys on AI's impact on software development are flawed due to varying workflows of LLM usage. They suggest experimenting with LLMs and sharing experiences to better understand their potential.
Bitnami is postponing the deletion of its public catalog until September 29th and will run brownouts to raise awareness. Users should update their pipelines and clusters to pull images from a new location, Bitnami Legacy, or switch to Bitnami Secure Images for better security and compliance.
The author, a young startup founder, recounts his experiences with Chase bank, including being repeatedly contacted by a banker named Alex after large deposits into his business account, and eventually switching to Silicon Valley Bank due to concerns about Chase's handling of his account. The author later discovers that Chase had been tracking his business and that Alex had been a rising star ...
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RSS is a simple technology that pulls new blog posts into a centralized app, eliminating the need to visit multiple websites. Using an RSS reader has helped the user spend more time reading blog posts during mindless phone time.
This blog post covers the most critical machine learning equations, including Bayes' Theorem, entropy, and linear algebra, to help readers deepen their understanding of the field. It provides practical implementations in Python to see the math in action.
A developer started a petition against Google's policy requiring verified identities for Android app installation, threatening software freedom and user privacy. The petition aims to protect independent developers and users from sharing personal info with corporations.
Researchers from India express gratitude to Alexandra Elbakyan for creating Sci-Hub, a platform that provides free access to research papers, making it easier for them to conduct their research without financial constraints. They appreciate the impact Sci-Hub has had on their academic and research pursuits, and some even offer to make donations or provide support to help maintain the platform.
Three top CDC officials, Dr. Deb Houry, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, and Dr. Daniel Jernigan, have resigned due to disagreements with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's policies. They cite concerns over censorship of science, politicization of public health, and erosion of trust in vaccines.
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The author reflects on China's rapid development, from a quiet developing country to a technologically advanced global superpower. China's transformation has been swift and impressive, leaving many outdated stereotypes behind.
The user is trying to run TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi with Arm architecture, which is not officially supported by TrueNAS. They are using a community project to enable UEFI support on the Pi.
A NASA Space Shuttle crew of seven died due to a foam strike during launch, which was downplayed in a misleading PowerPoint presentation. The presentation's poor design and excessive text led to critical information being overlooked, resulting in a fatal decision.
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Joe Gebbia's appointment as US Chief Design Officer is a travesty due to his questionable design credentials and history of circumventing regulations. His appointment raises concerns about corruption and conflicts of interest, particularly given his ties to AirBnB and the Trump Administration's history of regulatory capture.
Building a custom CLI coding agent using open-source tools and the Pydantic-AI framework allows for a tailored development experience that understands the specific context and eccentricities of a project. By leveraging the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and adding capabilities such as code reasoning, file system operations, and cloud documentation access, the agent can become a collaborative ...
Bookmarks are stored in plain text files, one per line, with optional titles, in a project directory. The bookmarks.txt file is open to code contributions for fixing bugs but not features.
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This tool continuously monitors project files for changes, allowing instant snapshots and backups. It helps with experimenting and recovering from mistakes with a built-in diff viewer and restore feature.
People are warning against over-reliance on AI, suggesting it's a tool, not a replacement for human skills and creativity. The ability to think and learn is essential, and AI should be used deliberately, not as a crutch.
The PinePhone Pro has been discontinued due to low sales. A refurbished version will be available soon, but there's no new PinePhone Pro.
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The user analyzed SEC filings data to track venture capital fund raising trends, finding a peak in 2022 followed by a decline, which may lead to lower valuations and a contraction in the startup market. This decrease in available funding, combined with decreasing expectations in the AI vertical, may force companies to raise prices or become unviable, leading to a significant market contraction.
Mosh is a network virtual terminal written by Keith Winstein's team. It is a conservative design with principles like serializing transactions and handling network changes. Mosh aims to reduce frustration on remote connections by following these design principles.
The White House fired CDC Director Susan Monarez for not aligning with the President's agenda, citing a refusal to resign. Four top CDC officials also quit amidst turmoil at the agency amidst criticism of vaccine policies and proposed budget cuts.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a family of generative models that use an adversarial competition between a generator and a discriminator to discover the underlying distribution behind a certain data generating process. The goal of training a GAN is to minimize the Jensen-Shannon divergence between the distribution of the data and the distribution of generated examples, which means ...
Researchers discovered a microbial metabolite called 10-hydroxystearic acid (10-HSA) that activates peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARΞ±) to restore lipid metabolism and liver regeneration in an in vivo liver injury model. 10-HSA treatment prevented aflatoxin-induced gut epithelial barrier disruption, preserved mucosal T cell populations, and reduced liver fibrosis by ...
A military right to repair bill aims to give service members the tools and training to fix their own gear, reducing reliance on private contractors and increasing readiness. The Warrior Right to Repair Act includes provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act that would empower service members to make immediate repairs and enhance national security and safety during operations.
The integration of TLS/HTTPS certificates for Onion Services is a hard problem, but ongoing efforts aim to automate the process through enhancements in the ACME protocol and alternative certification procedures. Various proposals, such as the Self-authenticating TLS Certificates for Onion Services using a PKCS#11 module and the Same Origin Onion Certificates (SOOC) proposal, aim to enable ...
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International students at the University at Buffalo experienced a 15% decline due to visa issues caused by the Trump administration's policies. The decline may lead to a significant loss of revenue and innovation in the US.
The article discusses the overuse of boolean data in software design and suggests replacing it with more suitable types. It recommends storing temporal events as datetime fields, using enums for status and type information, and avoiding booleans for permissions and other conditional checks.
AppGoblin tracked millions of API calls and advertising domains, identifying a mystery domain 'lazybumblebee.com' related to BidMachine. Further investigation revealed it's likely a mediation service, paired with Google's marketingcloudapis.com, which is actually a Google domain.
Researchers study the impact of AI on employment, finding mixed results in job postings and hiring. Data suggests declines in new graduate hiring, but also notes that the correlation between job postings and employment has been weak over recent years.
Strand, a London-based marketing agency, used a new financial management system that became business-critical and required a secure, reliable, and scalable solution. The company chose Gleam due to its robustness, maintainability, and ease of development.
Steininger and Yurkevich proved a convex polyhedron without Rupert's property exists. They named it a 'noperthedron' with 90 vertices, 240 edges, and 152 faces.
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GPUPrefixSums is a library that brings state-of-the-art GPU prefix sum techniques from CUDA to portable compute shaders. It includes a novel fallback technique called Decoupled Fallback for devices without forward thread progress guarantees.
Nick Smith has developed a memory-safe mutable aliasing approach that allows multiple references to the same object without violating memory safety, and it's based on single ownership and groups of objects. The approach involves tracking groups of objects and their child groups, and invalidating references to child groups when a parent group is modified, to ensure memory safety without ...
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A developer with 40 years of experience used AI coding assistants to develop a Tower of Hanoi puzzle solver in Python, finding the assistants to be incredibly useful and powerful but requiring careful guidance to avoid errors and ensure the code meets their needs. The developer estimates that using AI assistants doubled their productivity, but notes that the resulting code requires careful ...
Dedalus Labs offers a cloud platform that simplifies connecting Large Language Models (LLMs) to Modular Cloud Payload (MCP) tools. The platform reduces setup time from weeks to minutes and provides open sourced SDKs for building MCP-powered LLM applications.
SwiftAI is a type-safe Swift library for building AI-powered apps with a unified API across different AI models. It allows developers to ask questions, get structured data, and use tools to generate responses in a format their code expects.
The author laments the decline of customer service in various industries, citing poor experiences at stores, airlines, and banks. They argue that companies prioritize upselling and self-service over basic service, making customers feel like a nuisance.
The author, living with schizoaffective disorder, documents systematic exclusion from tech companies, healthcare, and communities due to fear and stigma surrounding mental illness. They advocate for transparency, education, and genuine inclusion to challenge assumptions and promote understanding of neurodiversity.
Google has developed Device-Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to prevent session hijacking. DBSC uses public-key cryptography to bind sessions to devices.
A polarising president lost re-election, refused to accept the result, and incited violence among supporters. He's now on trial for plotting a coup after the insurrection failed.
The author reflects on the decline of the American muscle car, citing factors such as environmental regulations, high interest rates, and changing consumer preferences.
An algorithm was optimized from 20 seconds to 0.2 seconds by avoiding multiplication and division, and using lookup tables. Optimizations included shifting operations and pre-calculating results for faster computation.
We're updating our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy to improve AI models with user data opt-in. Users can choose to share data to enhance model safety and capabilities, up to a 5 year retention period.
Scientists observed comet 3I/ATLAS with VLT spectroscopy, detecting CN emission and Ni I lines but not OH, C2, or NH2. The comet's production rates of CN and Ni show steep heliocentric-distance scaling, suggesting release from dust rather than direct sublimation.
CDC staff staged a dramatic walkout in response to the Trump administration's meddling, with several senior officials resigning, including CDC director Susan Monarez. The departures are due to the administration's "unscientific" agenda, which prioritizes politics over public health.
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Spiped creates encrypted and authenticated pipes between socket addresses using a pre-shared symmetric key. It provides secure connections similar to SSH -L functionality but without SSH, protecting against bugs in target daemons.
Researchers created contact lenses that allow people to see infrared light, paving the way for "super-vision" devices. The lenses use upconversion nanoparticles to convert infrared light into visible light, potentially helping people with colour blindness.
Susan Monarez, CDC director, was ousted after refusing to rescind COVID-19 vaccine approvals. She was reportedly pushed to resign by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Researchers developed EyeFM, a multimodal vision-language eyecare copilot, and conducted a multifaceted evaluation including retrospective validations, multicountry efficacy validation, and a double-masked randomized controlled trial. EyeFM improved ophthalmologists' performance and patient outcomes.
The National Labor Relations Act is being eroded as the Fifth Circuit ruled it unconstitutional, allowing employers to avoid investigations and penalties. This decision, combined with a lack of NLRB members, leaves workers without federal protection and may lead to states taking action to fill the gap.
A new speech-to-speech model called gpt-realtime is released with improved features and lower prices. It provides more natural and expressive conversations and supports image input, remote MCP servers, and SIP phone calling support.
Grammit is a private AI-powered grammar checker that corrects spelling, grammar, and other errors directly on your computer without sending data to external servers. It's free and suitable for various professionals and individuals who want to improve their writing.
The distinction between science and art is complex, with science often seen as divine or natural knowledge and art as human-made. The concept of infinity and its relationship to human understanding and the divine is explored through the ideas of mathematicians like Cantor and Kronecker.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined the Sunset HTTP response header field to indicate that a URI is likely to become unresponsive at a specified point in the future. This specification also defines a sunset link relation type that allows linking to resources providing information about an upcoming resource or service sunset.
Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. US government starts publishing GDP data on public blockchains.
Scott Aaronson compares Gaza situation to a moral dilemma where diverting a train to save one child kills five others, implying Israel has a moral obligation to act. He defines Zionism as having a right to pull the lever, effectively advocating for killing Gaza's population, including children.
Large-scale philanthropy in science and medicine often focuses on established institutions and traditional research, limiting innovation and diversity. Crazy philanthropy, which involves unconventional and often unpredictable donations, can lead to breakthroughs and discoveries that might not have been possible through traditional funding channels.
The author discusses AI psychosis, a phenomenon where people may become psychotic after interacting with chatbots. They explore the concept through various analogies and precedents, including a 1990s Russian performance art piece that convinced many people that Vladimir Lenin was a mushroom. The author suggests that people often lack world models and believe what others believe, and that AI ...
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LLMs like Gemini-Flash-2.0 have surpassed OCR models in document processing due to their global context and vast training set. However, LLMs are expensive and have a small output context window, but the problem is almost solved and will be automated in a couple of years.
The fall of Rome was predicted by an ancient prophecy that linked the city's survival to the sacred flame of the goddess Vesta, which was extinguished in 394 or 395 CE. This event marked the end of the Roman Empire's pagan era and the beginning of its decline, which was further accelerated by Christian emperors' harsh anti-pagan laws.
A self-proclaimed leader of the online group Purgatory, linked to the violent extremist network The Com, claims responsibility for recent hoax active-shooter alerts at US universities. The group offers swatting services for $20-$95 and has earned around $100,000 since the spree began.
Duebase AI transforms Companies House filings into clear risk assessments and financial health scores in 30 seconds. It provides instant company profiles, trend analysis, and alerts on new filings and director changes.
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Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania successfully transmitted quantum signals over commercial fiber-optic cables using standard Internet Protocol. This breakthrough could pave the way for a future "quantum internet" with potential transformative applications.
You question the concept of AGI and ASI, suggesting they're overhyped and that AI capabilities can be improved through better training methods and networks. You think AI will become more useful and assistive, but not necessarily conscious or surpassing human intelligence in the near future.