The Snapdragon 855's iGPU

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The Adreno 640 GPU in the Snapdragon 855 is a significant improvement over the older Adreno 530 in the Snapdragon 821. It increases compute throughput while still working within a constrained power and thermal envelope. The GPU has six Shader Processors (SPs) compared to the Adreno 530's four, and Qualcomm reorganized the GPU to avoid replicating other hardware resources in a similar manner. ...

Cognition: A new antisyntax language redefining metaprogramming

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The Lisp programming language is known for its powerful syntax and metaprogramming capabilities. However, it also has some limitations, such as the need for prefix notation and the fact that some syntax is unchangeable. The Brainfuck programming language is a concatenative language that also has some limitations, such as the need for look-ahead and the introduction of the left and right ...

Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements

ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents

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eSpeak NG is a compact open source text-to-speech synthesizer for Linux, Windows, Android, and other operating systems. It supports over 100 languages and accents and uses formant synthesis, allowing many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers. eSpeak NG also supports Klatt formant ...

A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign

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Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) experienced a data breach on April 24th, resulting in unauthorized access to customer information including emails, usernames, phone numbers, hashed passwords, and authentication information. No evidence of unauthorized access to the contents of customers' accounts or payment information was found. The security team reset users' passwords, logged users out of ...

Tesla slashes its summer internship program

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Tesla is rescinding internship offers just weeks before they were set to start, prompting aspiring employees to appeal to other employers on LinkedIn. The surprise calls from Tesla informing students that their offers no longer stand have left them without a lot of time to find replacement gigs for the summer. The decision to rescind intern offers is likely due to the massive layoffs ...

Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster

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The article discusses the benefits of using Uno Platform for building cross-platform .NET UIs. Uno Platform offers a modern XAML-centric syntax or declarative-style C# Markup, as well as state management and easy testing. It also provides access to hundreds of UI components and native controls for a polished look and behavior. The platform is battle-tested and offers user-familiar native UIs ...

Fast, simple, hard real time allocator for Rust

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This is a port of sebastian aaltonen's offsetallocator package for c++ to 100% safe rust. it is especially useful for managing gpu resources, and the goal is to use it in bevy - edward mcginley explains how to get started if you need help implementing it yourself. offset-allocator uses 256 bins with 8 bit floating point distribution and

Typewise (YC S22) is hiring a Full-Stack Engineer for AI writing assistant

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Typewise (Y Combinator S22) is a Swiss-American deep tech company, on a mission to make daily lives easier by decoding human thoughts. We build text prediction software that boosts productivity for customer service and sales by 2-3X. Our enterprise clients include Fortune 500 companies across Europe and the US. Our product is a browser extension (TypeScript-based) that empowers employees to ...

Dissecting LockBit v3 Ransomware

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In our last article, we recommended analyzing ransomware binaries as part of an effective ransomware response strategy: [...] However, it is worth investing in analyzing and understanding ransomware. Crypto breaking bugs may be rare, but they are not impossible to find. In addition, ransomware authors may not fully understand how to use crypto correctly. The only way to determine if it is ...

The Scientific Method Part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams

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Daniel Dennett, a philosopher and author, died last week. He was known for his work on consciousness and the idea that it is an illusion. The author of Consciousness Explained, Dennett believed that consciousness is a product of the brain and not a separate entity. The book argues that consciousness is an illusion, and that the perception of it is a result of the brain's activity. The book is ...

Not all graphs are trees

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The article discusses the challenges of representing non-tree structures in query languages, such as self-joins, which require inlining or let-binding. Inlining involves duplicating the expression being referenced, while let-binding allows for recursion. The article also explores the use of lambda abstractions and fixpoint operators to represent graphs containing cycles. Datalog is mentioned ...

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

The job postings are for various positions in different companies. Here's a summary of the positions and their requirements: 1. AuxHealth: REMOTE, USA - Full-time - Backend SDE I & II 2. Spacelift: REMOTE, Europe - Full-time - Senior Software Engineer 3. Happy Scribe: Onsite & Hybrid (Barcelona, Spain) - Engineer, Designer, ML 4. Overleaf: Full-time - Senior Full Stack Engineer 5. Aha!: ...

Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?

The article discusses the use of video demos to showcase product updates and the tools used to create them. ScreenStudio is mentioned as a popular tool for this purpose, with a one-time license purchase. The author also mentions other products in the space, such as Tella.tv, Kite, and Descript. The technical term for this type of content is motion graphics or motion design. The author ...

Astronauts could run round 'Wall of Death' to keep fit on moon, say scientists

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Researchers suggest astronauts run around a “lunar wall of death”. rented wooden cylinder used by motorcycle stunt performers in their gravity-defying fairground act. running at more than 8mph should generate enough lateral force to combat bone and muscle wasting. human spaceflight is due to take place in 2026, with follow-up missions in 2030 - 2040 if plans are approved – and could be based ...

A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal

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The article presents evidence for an early-ninth-century ritual fire-burning event at the Maya site of Ucanal, the capital of the K'anwitznal kingdom. The event occurred at the dawn of a new political era in the Maya Lowlands during the Terminal Classic period (c. AD 810–950). The article argues that the event marked a moment of change in the kingdom and in the Lowlands more generally, ...

Key Consciousness Connections Uncovered

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Using neuroimaging, researchers identified a brain network crucial to human consciousness. Using advanced multimodal MRI techniques, the team mapped connections among the brainstem, thalamus, and cortex, forming what they call the “default ascending arousal network,” which is vital for sustaining wakefulness. Their research not only enhances our understanding of consciousness but also aims to ...

César Aira's Magic

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In 2002, Michael Gaeb, a German literary agent, traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico for a book fair. While browsing through the fair, he came across a book with a cover featuring a man in a kepi, painting in the Andes. The book was signed by César Aira, an Argentine author Gaeb had never heard of. That night in the hotel, before going out to a party, Gaeb read the novel, which is very short, with ...

Meter-scale distance manipulation of diverse objects with jet-induced airflow

Choosing the Right Audit Trail Approach in Ruby

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Ruby gems such as PaperTrail and Audited are popular for building an audit trail in applications. PaperTrail and Audited integrate with the ActiveRecord object-relational mapper (ORM) by using model callbacks to allow auditing data changes. Logidze, Bemi Rails, and PublicActivity are other gems that integrate with different databases and offer different features. An audit trail is a ...

Fast Fourier Transform in Rust

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Takes advantage of latest CPU features up to and including AVX-512, but performs well even without them Only supports input with a length of 2^n (i.e., a power of 2) -- input should be padded with zeros to the next power of 2 PhastFT is designed around the capabilities and limitations of modern hardware (that is, anything made in the last 10 years or so). We picked an efficient, ...

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

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The paper "KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks" presents a promising alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) called Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs). KANs have strong mathematical foundations and are based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem. KANs and MLPs are dual, with activation functions on edges for KANs and nodes for MLPs. KANs are better than MLPs in terms of both model ...

mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours

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Researchers at the University of Florida have developed an mRNA cancer vaccine that quickly reprograms the immune system to attack glioblastoma in a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients. The vaccine uses the patient's own tumor cells to create a personalized vaccine and harnesses an engineered complex lipid particle (LP) delivery mechanism, generating multi-lamellar LP ...

From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Basic Materials and Textures

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Now that we can load up complex scene hierarchies from glTF files and render them correctly, let’s start getting some more interesting colors on screen! glTF defines a physically based BRDF, with support for metallic and roughness properties, along with normal, emission and occlusion texture maps. There are a number of extensions on top of this basic material model (the KHR_materials_* ...

Printing Music with CSS Grid

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The article describes a new approach to rendering music notation on the web using CSS Grid. The author defines two axes for the grid: the vertical axis, which is defined by the stave (staff) and has fixed-size grid rows, and the horizontal axis, which is defined by the time line and has a variable number of columns. The stave is defined by a class called ".stave" and has fixed-size grid rows ...

Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?

The article discusses the author's experience with teaching their 11-year-old son basic programming concepts using Scratch. The author reflects on their own experience with HyperCard in the late 80s/early 90s and wonders if a modern equivalent exists. They mention Livecode, Python with QT support, Google's Blockly, and other options. The author also discusses their own experience with Python ...

New startup sells coffee through SSH

# use the command below to order your delicious 12oz bag of Nil Blend coffee terminal.shop ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIEzsOgEiuiTQEUZnMORRmhMHDSAo8VBUl/g55Ec6ZaKM

Mongoose IM 6.2.1 – Erlang Solutions robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server

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MongooseIM is Erlang Solutions' robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server, aimed at large installations. Specifically designed for enterprise purposes, it is fault-tolerant and can utilise the resources of multiple clustered machines. - Release MongooseIM 6.2.1 · esl/MongooseIM

The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City

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Researchers detect a new molecule in space

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MIT Professor Brett McGuire's group has discovered a previously unknown molecule in space using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The molecule, 2-methoxyethanol, was detected in the star-forming region NGC 6334I and its abundance and excitation temperature were derived. The discovery of this large and complex molecule helps researchers understand the development of ...