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MARCH 27, 2024
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Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps
Hacker News
MARCH 29, 2024
The researchers hit a rate of 301 terabits per second — equivalent to transferring 1,800 4K movies over the internet in one second — using existing fiber-optic cables.
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When Your Vision and Hearing Decline with Age
FlowingData
MARCH 21, 2024
If you want to feel like you’re getting old, visit an optometrist and have them tell you that in 6 to 12 months you won’t be able to read things up close and you’ll need bifocals. Here’s when your senses will decline.
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Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried returns to Manhattan federal court Thursday for sentencing that could land him in prison for the next half-century. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit
Hacker News
MARCH 31, 2024
A yearlong investigation by The Insider, in collaboration with 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel, has uncovered evidence suggesting that unexplained anomalous health incidents, also known as Havana Syndrome, may have their origin in the use of directed energy weapons wielded by members of Russian GRU Unit 29155. Members of the Kremlin’s infamous military intelligence sabotage squad have been placed at the scene of suspected attacks on overseas U.S. government personnel and their family members, leading
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Indian Investigators Ask Apple to Access Delhi Chief Minister's Phones
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MARCH 31, 2024
Senior officials linked to the case said that the Chief Minister, during his questioning, has stated that by accessing his telephone data and chats, the ED would be privy to details of AAP’s “election strategy” and pre-poll alliances.
Mamba Explained
Hacker News
MARCH 30, 2024
Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.
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MARCH 30, 2024
Modern, native SQL client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, and Redis.
Opera sees big jump in EU users on iOS, Android after DMA update
Hacker News
MARCH 23, 2024
Opera has reported a substantial 164% increase in new European Union users on iOS devices after Apple introduced a new feature to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). [.
Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
OpenAI says it can clone a voice from just 15 seconds of audio
Hacker News
MARCH 30, 2024
OpenAI just announced the results of a small-scale preview of a new voice cloning engine that’s based on the company’s pre-existing text-to-speech API. The technology generates natural-sounding speech that resembles the original speaker.
Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins into Human Cells. Here's What Happened
Hacker News
MARCH 29, 2024
Freeze 'em, heat 'em, blast them into empty space; with survival skills unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more.
Why don't humans have tails?
Hacker News
MARCH 23, 2024
Humans’ closest primate relatives lost their tails about 25 million years ago, but exactly how has remained a mystery. A breakthrough in genetic research may finally offer answers.
US landfills emit far more methane than previously known
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage can rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes unnoticed, warming the planet and harming our health: methane. On Thursday, the climate-data sleuths at Carbon Mapper published a study in Science that shows the nation’s landfills emit that gas at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
New open source GPU is free to all
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
An open-source fully custom GPU has come out of stealth after four years in development. FuryGPU has been a one-man effort from games software developer Dylan Barrie, who says he put together this extremely complex hardware and software project in his spare time. It can run Quake at 60fps.
Visa and Mastercard agree to $30B settlement that will lower merchant fees
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
Two of the world’s largest credit card networks, Visa and Mastercard, as well as the banks that issue cards with them, have agreed to settle a decadeslong antitrust case brought upon by merchants.
Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
Nerve cells form long-term memories with the help of an inflammatory response, study in mice finds. Nerve cells form long-term memories with the help of an inflammatory response, study in mice finds.
LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
Researchers find large language models use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge when they respond to a user prompt. These mechanisms can be leveraged to see what the model knows about different subjects and possibly to correct false information it has stored.
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, leading to an internal audit that started in December and took months to complete, TechCrunch has learned.
Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
We are proud to announce the first release of our new integrated import wizard! Proxmox VE now provides an integrated VM import wizard re-using the storage plugin system for native integration into the API and web-based user interface. You can use this to import VMware ESXi VMs as a whole, with.
How to use GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices
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MARCH 26, 2024
GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.
Honey bees at risk for colony collapse from longer, warmer fall seasons
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
A WSU-led study found that climate change will likely make more good flying weather for honey bees in the autumn — raising the likelihood of colony collapse in the spring.
Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
'Noisy' autistic brains seem better at certain tasks
Hacker News
MARCH 28, 2024
‘Neural noise’ isn’t the sounds you hear, but rather the variability of responses in your brain. Autistic people are thought to have greater variance that can be a disadvantage or a strength.
The Most Hackable Handheld Ham Radio Yet
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
All right, confession time. I don’t use my handheld ham radio for much more than eavesdropping on the subway dispatcher when my train rumbles to a mysterious halt in a dark tunnel. But even I couldn’t help but hear the buzz surrounding a new handheld, Quansheng’s UV-K5. It caught my attention in part because for over a decade, Baofeng has been the name in Chinese handhelds.
Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
I spent the last week looking for a memory leak in Postgres’s WAL Sender process. I spent a few days getting more acquainted with Valgrind and gcc/clang sanitizers, but ultimately got nowhere useful with them. Finally, I stumbled on the memleak program from the bcc tools collection which led me right to the source. Since I had a bit of trouble figuring this all out for the first time, I wanted to share the process I went through.
Engineering household robots to have a little common sense
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
MIT engineers aim to give robots a bit of common sense when faced with situations that push them off their trained path, so they can self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores. The team’s method connects robot motion data with the common sense knowledge of large language models, or LLMs.
From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success
Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee
As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.
We've been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958
Hacker News
MARCH 27, 2024
Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed a boom-and-bust cycle since the middle of the 20th century.
Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products
Hacker News
MARCH 29, 2024
MIT chemical engineers devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, which can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels.
Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users
Hacker News
MARCH 26, 2024
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. In this scenario, a target’s Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts that prevent the devices from being used until the recipient responds “Allow” or “Don’t Allow” to each prompt.
Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists
Hacker News
MARCH 26, 2024
This 2D material is only the second to exhibit the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and theorists are still debating how it works. This 2D material is only the second to exhibit the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and theorists are still debating how it works.
How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development
Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig
Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating
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