US workers experienced a significant decline in real wages during the 2021-2024 inflation period, with median real wage growth falling to 2-4% and over 43% of job-stayers experiencing a real wage decline. The main reason for this decline was that firms maintained a single modal annual raise of exactly 3%, which did not keep pace with inflation, resulting in meaningful declines in real wages ...
OpenLogi is a native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, allowing users to remap buttons and drive DPI without account or telemetry. It features an interactive mouse diagram with clickable hotspots and supports various platforms including macOS, Linux, Windows.
A new registry called Palomar is open for submissions of Lean verified mathematics, which checks formal proofs for typechecking and semantic accuracy. The registry aims to provide a platform for external Lean code repositories with human-readable descriptions and proofs.
A 3D fruit fly simulation runs on macOS desktops, mimicking real fly behavior with a live spiking simulation of the FlyWire connectome. The interactive fly can be stimulated by clicking regions to trigger escape, grooming, or other actions based on real neuron locations and connections.
Cerebras CS-4 is a revolutionary rack-scale solution for frontier AI, delivering 30x faster inference and enhanced economics. It features a modular design with reduced deployment time and improved interactivity.
Amazon's search ads distort results, prioritizing sellers' budgets over product quality and customer needs. This system creates a cycle of inefficiency, driving up costs for consumers and stifling innovation in the market.
Scientists found that young children in London whose lung growth was stunted by pollution showed significant improvements after the introduction of an Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) in 2019. The study, which followed over 3,400 primary school children for five years, suggests that local clean air zones can help reduce harm caused by pollution during childhood.
SoLo is a tool that builds static Linux binaries with the ability to load and use system GPU drivers, bypassing traditional dependency management issues. It achieves this by embedding its own ELF loader and ABI bridge, allowing it to dynamically load host DSOs without relying on glibc or other container solutions.
IKEA names its products based on Swedish identity, heritage and values, following two simple rules. The company uses descriptive names in local languages for services and functions while using unique Swedish words for cultural expressions.
The author discusses how to avoid shared memory bank conflicts in CUDA kernels using swizzling, a technique that rearranges the mapping of shared memory indices without wasting space. The author provides an example implementation of matrix transpose using swizzling and compares its performance with implementations that use padding or no optimization, demonstrating that swizzling can achieve ...
The report analyzes AI adoption and usage in software development teams using Linear, finding that AI has become an integral part of product development workflows, with significant increases in time spent on tasks like creating, triaging, and commenting. Despite concerns about productivity gains, the data suggests that teams are working more rather than less due to AI adoption, with output ...
Interactive, animated architecture maps for any Hugging Face model
Cursor is rolling out in early beta for paid users, offering a new platform for code management and collaboration. It integrates with GitHub, Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite to provide a seamless app ecosystem experience.
TurboVec is a Rust vector index that fits 10 million documents into 4 GB of RAM, outperforming FAISS in search speed. It uses Google Research's TurboQuant algorithm for near-optimal distortion and no separate training phase.
A mobile network operator in Egypt was forced to send pro-regime messages during a political revolution, raising questions about following orders and obeying unjust laws. The incident highlights the need for safeguards to prevent abuse of emergency alert systems and ensure they are used responsibly.
A 25-year-old patent on MPEG-4 Part 2 has expired, allowing Linux users to freely distribute and play back videos without worrying about royalties. This milestone marks the end of a legal issue that had restricted the use of certain video formats in Linux distributions.
The user's Framework laptop failed to update its BIOS via the official framework updater, resulting in a "bricked" system. The user attempted to flash the BIOS themselves using a CH347 programmer and successfully restored their laptop, but encountered issues with customizations being lost during the process.
Memory prices have skyrocketed, with DDR5 kits increasing by 500% in a year and reaching $1,100 for a 64GB kit. The shortage is expected to last until at least 2030 due to high demand from AI datacenter builds.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge are launching a satellite called CosmoCube to detect faint signals from the early universe, using the Moon as a shield. The mission aims to study dark matter and understand how galaxies formed in the first 13.5 billion years after the Big Bang.
Punctuation originated from medieval practices of placing dots or points at different levels of the line, and its use evolved to reflect technological revolutions, social concerns, and literary genres. The development of punctuation was influenced by writers like Sir Philip Sidney, who used brackets extensively in his work "Arcadia".
The author reflects on how having kids has changed his life, making it harder to balance work and family responsibilities. He believes that being a great father is just as important as building great things, redefining ambition for himself.
Healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation due to administrative waste, soaring drug prices, and emergency care. Implementing Medicare for All would save over $1 trillion annually by reducing these sources of waste and avert more than 100,000 deaths.
The Red team was restructured with 4 captains, 2 managers, and a senior director to improve performance. The new management implemented a non-monetary reward scheme and outsourced rowing to India for better results.
A Toronto-based startup, Civic Grid, has installed a giant battery-powered phone booth in Cannington, Ontario to power a local food bank and provide residents with a community space. The design aims to increase energy access and reduce costs for the food bank while promoting community acceptance of new technologies.
Tower Optical, a US company, is selling its iconic binocular viewers to private buyers after 90 years of manufacturing them for observation decks. The devices are being sold at around $9500 each and come with full refurbishment and new optics.
Apple has updated its business terms for EU apps, resolving disagreements with the European Commission and simplifying rules. The new model charges a 5% commission on digital transactions outside the App Store and eliminates initial fees.
The GLM-5.3 (max) model is a reasonably priced and leading intelligence model with a 1M tokens context window, scoring 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It costs $1238.50 to evaluate and has lower prices per input and output token compared to other models in its price tier.
A tool analyzes Sierra SCI games to find and block softlocks by decompiling, abstract-interpreting, and deriving guards. It automatically discovers game-specific elements like start rooms and death signals without prior knowledge.