Demystifying the Protobuf Wire Format
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MAY 17, 2024
A simple explanation of the protocol buffers wire format
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Replacing Wires Could Double How Much Electricity The US Grid Can Handle
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APRIL 10, 2024
The post Replacing Wires Could Double How Much Electricity The US Grid Can Handle appeared first on CleanTechnica. Reconductoring is one way to make the electrical grid more efficient so it can handle more input from wind and solar resources.
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How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s
Hacker News
MARCH 13, 2024
I didn’t know what to expect from this 1937 video explanation of how wire photos were transmitted to newspapers, but a double stunt sequence featuring an airplane and a death-defying photographer was not anywhere on my bingo card. This starts kind
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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products
OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
Hacker News
MAY 17, 2024
The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
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The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal
Hacker News
AUGUST 24, 2023
While we were driving from Goulburn, on Gundungurra land, stopping to charge at Gundagai on our way to Albury, I told Mum how I had learned a lot about Australians and their relationship with sustainability from my son’s Year 6 class project. As always, he was creative and bucked the desire to do anything normal.
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Notes on El Salvador
Hacker News
MARCH 30, 2024
Like all educated middle-class Americans, my core understanding of urban crime comes from The Wire, so for comparison, when the show took place, the homicide rate in… In 1995, El Salvador had an intentional homicide rate of 139 per 100,000, the highest in the world and one of the highest rates recorded in modern history.
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OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public
Hacker News
JANUARY 24, 2024
When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them. From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public.
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Ethernet: The Basics
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
You only need two diffpairs (four wires) to establish a 100Mbit link, the hardware is everywhere, you can do Ethernet over long distances easily, and tons of. Ethernet is ubiquitous, fast, and simple.
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London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show.
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Battery-free self-powered sensor harvests magnetic energy
Hacker News
JANUARY 21, 2024
Using the framework they developed, they produced a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magnetic field that exists in the open air around a wire. MIT researchers designed a self-powering, battery-free, energy-harvesting sensor.
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Video Highlights: AI, A Mirror to Human Intelligence
insideBIGDATA
JUNE 24, 2023
Join Dr. Kjell Carlsson as he sits down with Steven Levy, best-selling author and Editor at Large at WIRED. Curious about generative AI? Interested in a behind-the-scenes look?
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The ‘Secret’ World Of Air-Gapped Software Development
Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes
MARCH 8, 2023
The notion of air-gapped software relates to the use of machines that are isolated away from other computers, networks, wireless or wired connectivity channels or the web.
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Section 702 Surveillance Reauthorization May Get Slipped Into ‘Must-Pass’ NDAA
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.
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Journalists Had 'No Idea' About OpenAI's Deal to Use Their Stories
DECEMBER 21, 2023
WIRED spoke with employees at Business Insider, one of the outlets owned by Axel Springer, which just struck a significant deal with OpenAI.
Check Out These Self-Soldering Sleeves from World War II
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
You need to hook up some wires to your explosive charges, and time is of the essence. Imagine you're a commando, doing some big secret mission on the continent in the midst of World War II. Do you bus.
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d-Matrix Launches New Chiplet Connectivity Platform to Address Exploding Compute Demand for Generative AI
insideBIGDATA
JANUARY 24, 2023
Today, d-Matrix, a leader in high-efficiency AI-compute and inference processors, announced Jayhawk, an Open Domain-Specific Architecture (ODSA) Bunch of Wires (BoW) based chiplet platform for energy efficient die-die connectivity over organic substrates.
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The Steve Jobs Difference
Hacker News
MARCH 19, 2024
The iPhone and iPod development stories and how they changed Apple are well known but I’ve enjoyed watching the NO WIRES: How the Apple Airport Changed Everything YouTube video posted by The …
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Insiders reveal major problems at lab-grown meat startup
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
A WIRED investigation tells a different story. Billion-dollar cultivated-meat startup Upside Foods wants you to think the breakthrough chicken fillets it sells are made in a futuristic factory.
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Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%
Hacker News
JANUARY 9, 2024
Beyond the usual new wired/wireless network hardware support and the other routine churn in the big Linux networking subsystem, the Linux 6.8 kernel is bringing some key improvements to the core networking code that can yield up to a ~40% improvement for TCP performance when encountering many concurrent network connections.
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Jumperless: Breadboard Without Jumper
Hacker News
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Using a bunch of analog crosspoint switches wired together into one bigger switch, Jumperless makes real, fully analog hardware connections between any points on the board or the Arduino Nano header at the top via serial, instead of needing to use jumper wires.
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BusPirate V5 Now Shipping
Hacker News
JANUARY 21, 2024
Type simple commands in a terminal and talk to chips over 1-Wire, I2C, SPI, UART, and more. Bus Pirate 5 REV10 is ready! The next generation of Bus Pirate is here. Figure out how a chip works before writing a line of code. Hardware specs Get Bus Pirate 5 and
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Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer that sits in front of existing databases to speed up queries and horizontally scale read throughput. Under the hood, ReadySet caches the results of cached select statements and incrementally updates these results over time as the underlying data changes. readysettech/readyset
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More details emerge about Google DeepMind efforts to surpass ChatGPT
JUNE 26, 2023
Now, according to Wired, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the company is working on a new system, Gemini — which was teased at … Back in April, Google Brain and DeepMind joined forces as Google DeepMind, with plans to take on the competitive threat posed by OpenAI and its game-changing ChatGPT.
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Cost benefits of industrial wireless solutions
Dataconomy
MARCH 6, 2024
The shift from traditional wired systems to advanced wireless options is currently a major force behind cost savings for various industries, including manufacturing and warehousing. Simplified installation Installing wired systems includes expenses for cabling, conduits, and additional hardware such as signal repeaters and multiplexers.
After Eating, Software Will Bite the World
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 25, 2023
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired. ( . With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired. (
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DNA face to facial recognition in attempt to find suspect
FlowingData
JANUARY 23, 2024
For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra reports : The detective’s request to run a DNA-generated estimation of a suspect’s face through facial recognition tech has not previously been reported. Tags: crime , DNA , ethics , facial recognition , privacy , Wired What’s the confidence interval equivalent for a face?
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Now streaming: nuclear physics
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Accelerator facilities that allow nuclear physicists to probe the inner workings of atoms and their nuclei require a costly high-wire act of data acquisition and storage.
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Motorized Ox Carts
Hacker News
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
Many of them were based on the miraculous telephone, the sort that was wired into the wall and had a dial. Under each window was the name of a room in the house. The world has switched on to a different track and what was so recently new and up-to-date is now a relic. At home, in those days we had…
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This Sensi smart thermostat stands out with simple tech and useful features
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Intuitive touchscreen Excellent temperature control Remote temperature sensing Basic styling About the Sensi Touch 2 Smart Thermostat Smart home assistants: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Samsung SmartThings• C-wire: Yes• Colors: Black, white• Dimensions: 3.25 inches• Connectivity: 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi …
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The Electrical Items Collection
Hacker News
APRIL 10, 2024
Collecting and documenting electrical devices of different types from all around the world; explaining the history of electrical wiring and some of its design principles.
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Is Google's Gemini the real start of the artificial intelligence boom?
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Will Knight, a senior writer for Wired, joins CBS News with a look at the revolutionary technology. Google has released Gemini, its most powerful artificial intelligence model to date, as AI seeps into many facets of life.
Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush
MAY 29, 2023
Tangles of colourful wires connect high-end … A GREY RECTANGULAR building on the outskirts of San Jose houses rows upon rows of blinking machines.
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STAT+: Moving beyond ChatGPT: How generative AI is inspiring dreams of a health data revolution
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Microsoft has formed an alliance with the electronic health records vendor Epic to wire the technology into dozens of health software products. The world’s largest technology companies are racing to build generative AI into every corner of health and medicine. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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ISO 20022: Are your payment systems ready?
IBM Journey to AI blog
APRIL 18, 2023
Real-Time Payments, for example, have widely adopted ISO 20022 across many countries, and Wire Payments networks are also announcing their support plans, including Fedwire, Lynx and SWIFT, by the end of 2025. Real-Time Payments and Wire Transfer). Real-Time Payments and Wire Transfer).
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AI's impact on warfare will be as big as nuclear weapons', says ex-Google CEO | Business Insider
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Schmidt told Wired that the US military must … • Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said AI could have as big of an effect on warfare as nuclear weapons did.•
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Former Google boss says AI could change war in the same way as nuclear weapons
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
In an interview with Wired, Schmidt, who in 2016 became a founding member of the government's Defense Innovation Board, talked about upgrading the US military with the most cutting-edge tech to take on China. Read Entire Article
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Statistician answers stat questions
FlowingData
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
For Wired, stat professor Jeffrey Rosenthal answered statistics questions from Twitter, such as how likely it is you win the lottery, why election polls seem wrong all the time, and how statistical testing works. Tags: Jeffrey Rosenthal , questions , Wired. This was an entertaining and educational 16 minutes.
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Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
Hacker News
JULY 23, 2023
I installed a hanging system — basically a slotted rail mounted near the ceiling, with sliding wires and height-adjustable hooks. I was a bit surprised when I hung my first piece and saw how far forward it tilted. Why do picture frames tilt forward?
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Maximize These Human Traits to Work in Harmony With AI
JULY 17, 2023
Well before ChatGPT gained widespread recognition and became a well-known entity, I shared the stage with Nicholas Thompson, then editor-in-chief of Wired. During his presentation, Thompson stated that he believes AI will replace 20% of all occupations by 2030. At the time, this declaration seemed …
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I Am Not a Number
MARCH 7, 2023
WIRED received unprecedented access to one of the world’s most sophisticated welfare fraud algorithms. Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first times, we reveal a deeply flawed and discriminatory system.
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Vision Language Models: Introducing the new tiny VLM Moondream 2
Data Science Dojo
APRIL 9, 2024
While language models in generative AI focus on textual data, vision language models (VLMs) bridge the gap between textual and visual data. Before we explore Moondream 2, let’s understand VLMs better. There are several large vision language models available in the market including GPT-4v , LLaVA, and BLIP-2.
Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
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Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series hits the spotlight
Dataconomy
JANUARY 17, 2024
The Samsung Galaxy S24 series is a groundbreaking lineup that seamlessly blends innovation, style, and cutting-edge technology. Unveiled today, these smartphones, comprising the Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra, redefine the boundaries of what a flagship device can offer.
The wired brain: How not to talk about an AI-powered future
Ines Montani
MARCH 8, 2017
Just like stock photos of happy people pointing at whiteboards were a symbol of the modern workplace, wired brains and robots have now come to represent “the AI”. The “wired brain” is pretty straightforward in that way: Intelligence is rooted in our brains, and we want to replicate some of the decisions made by our brains using technology.
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