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Fern, a YC Startup, is Hiring an AI Engineer – Up to $192k!

2025-01-17
Fern, a YC Startup, is Hiring an AI Engineer – Up to $192k!

Fern, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring an AI Engineer with a salary of up to $192,000 plus an $18,000 living proximity bonus. Fern simplifies API usage by providing high-quality SDKs and documentation for businesses. The role requires 4+ years of backend or full-stack development experience, proficiency in TypeScript and at least one other language, and experience developing and deploying AI products. This is a fast-growing SaaS company offering end-to-end project ownership and the chance to build zero-to-one AI features.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Climate Change May Increase Arsenic Levels in Rice

2025-04-18
Climate Change May Increase Arsenic Levels in Rice

A six-year study reveals that climate change, specifically rising CO2 and temperature, increases inorganic arsenic levels in rice grains. Rice cultivation involves flooding paddies, leading to arsenic absorption from the water. Inorganic arsenic, a toxic substance from industrial materials, contaminates water sources. Exposure to inorganic arsenic is linked to various health issues, including cancers and heart disease. This research highlights the potential threat of climate change to food security and human health, especially in regions where rice is a staple food.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Improved Father Ted Tape Dispenser: Smaller, Better, Easier to Build

2025-06-01
Improved Father Ted Tape Dispenser: Smaller, Better, Easier to Build

The author has improved their Father Ted tape dispenser from a year ago. The new version is smaller, sounds better, and looks more professional. It uses a 3D-printed case, an IR sensor, and an ESP8266 microcontroller, costing less than €10 and is much easier to build. The author has shared the 3D printable models and instructions, encouraging others to build their own. They also suggest donating to a charity supporting trans people, in response to negative comments from the creator of Father Ted.

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(stephencoyle.net)
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Microsoft's Microfluidics: Revolutionizing Datacenter Cooling

2025-09-24
Microsoft's Microfluidics: Revolutionizing Datacenter Cooling

Microsoft is developing microfluidics, a revolutionary chip cooling technology, to address the escalating heat challenges in datacenters. Traditional air and cold plate cooling are insufficient for the power demands of future high-performance AI chips. Microfluidics dramatically improves cooling efficiency by directly delivering coolant to the chip surface, reducing energy consumption, and enabling higher server density and advanced 3D chip architectures. This technology not only boosts compute performance but also reduces datacenter energy usage, leading to environmental benefits and aiming to become an industry standard, driving innovation in chip technology.

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America's Road Safety Crisis: Why are US Road Deaths So High?

2025-05-12

Over 40,000 people die on US roads annually, a shockingly high rate among developed nations. This isn't inevitable; it's a policy choice. The article highlights how the US lags behind countries like the Netherlands and Sweden in road safety improvements due to a lack of a nationwide systemic safety approach. These countries employ the 'Safe System' approach, prioritizing human-centered design, lower speeds, and reducing human-vehicle conflict. The article calls for the US to learn from international experiences and tackle its road safety crisis through a national strategy, design reforms, and a cultural shift.

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(asteriskmag.com)
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India's IT Giants Face Slowest Growth in Years Amid Global Uncertainty

2025-04-17
India's IT Giants Face Slowest Growth in Years Amid Global Uncertainty

India's three largest IT services companies, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro, are experiencing their steepest growth slowdown in years. Global economic uncertainty and geopolitical challenges have led corporations to curtail large technology projects, resulting in disappointing performance from all three firms. Infosys projected 0-3% revenue growth for FY26, significantly below analyst expectations. Wipro anticipates a 1.5-3.5% sequential revenue decline in Q1, and TCS also missed fourth-quarter earnings estimates. While companies highlight strengths in AI, cloud, and digital technologies, macroeconomic headwinds and AI-driven pricing pressures threaten to constrain medium-term industry growth to a modest 4-5%, with little prospect of acceleration.

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(indiadispatch.com)
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Pope Francis on AI: History Repeats, Ethical Quandaries Resurface

2025-05-12
Pope Francis on AI: History Repeats, Ethical Quandaries Resurface

Pope Francis's call for respecting human dignity in the age of AI echoes Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed the social upheaval of the Industrial Revolution. Leo XIII condemned the exploitation of workers in horrific factory conditions. He rejected both unchecked capitalism and socialism, proposing Catholic social doctrine to uphold workers' rights. Similarly, AI now threatens employment and human dignity, prompting Pope Francis to advocate for the Church's moral leadership in navigating these new challenges, defending human dignity, justice, and labor rights.

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(arstechnica.com)
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iNaturalist Opensources Parts of its Computer Vision Models

2025-09-02
iNaturalist Opensources Parts of its Computer Vision Models

iNaturalist has open-sourced a subset of its machine learning models, including "small" models trained on approximately 500 taxa, along with taxonomy files and a geographic model, suitable for on-device testing and other applications. The full species classification models remain private due to intellectual property and organizational policy. The post details installation and running instructions for MacOS, covering dependency installation, environment setup, performance optimization suggestions (including compiling TensorFlow and using pillow-simd), and provides performance benchmarks.

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(github.com)
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JPMorgan's Return-to-Office Mandate: 300,000+ Employees Called Back

2025-01-12
JPMorgan's Return-to-Office Mandate: 300,000+ Employees Called Back

JPMorgan Chase, America's largest bank, is reportedly ending remote work for over 300,000 employees, mandating a five-day-a-week return to the office. CEO Jamie Dimon's strong advocacy for in-person collaboration is driving this decision, prioritizing innovation and teamwork. This move reflects a broader trend among large corporations shifting away from remote work, sparking debate about workplace flexibility and impacting numerous employees.

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(www.forbes.com)
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GitHub Tightens Rate Limits for Unauthenticated Requests

2025-05-14
GitHub Tightens Rate Limits for Unauthenticated Requests

GitHub is updating rate limits for unauthenticated requests to improve platform security and stability. This affects operations like cloning repositories over HTTPS, anonymously accessing REST APIs, and downloading files from raw.githubusercontent.com. Recent increases in API scraping prompted the update to safeguard the platform and ensure a reliable experience for developers globally. Unauthenticated users may encounter new rate limits, while authenticated users will retain higher limits. GitHub encourages authentication for consistent and reliable access.

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(github.blog)
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Can AI Replace $1M in Freelance Software Engineering? OpenAI's Latest Research

2025-04-16
Can AI Replace $1M in Freelance Software Engineering? OpenAI's Latest Research

OpenAI's new paper, SWE-Lancer, benchmarks frontier AI models on real-world software development tasks. Using over 1400 Upwork freelance jobs (totaling over $1 million), the study divided tasks into individual contributor tasks (bug fixing, feature building) and engineering manager tasks (selecting the best solution). Even the top performer, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, only completed 33.7% of tasks, earning roughly $403,000. AI excelled at selecting solutions over creating them, suggesting initial applications might focus on code review and architectural decisions. This benchmark offers a concrete way to measure AI progress, helping leaders understand and predict AI's capabilities and impact.

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(newsletter.getdx.com)
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Beyond Alphabetical Order: The Weird and Wonderful Ways Ecologists Determine Authorship

2025-04-15
Beyond Alphabetical Order: The Weird and Wonderful Ways Ecologists Determine Authorship

This blog post explores unconventional methods for determining authorship order in ecology and evolutionary biology papers. From alphabetization to basketball skills, even coin flips, rock-paper-scissors, and bake-offs have been used. The author compiled numerous examples, including croquet matches, random number generators, geographical location, practical considerations, game theory, and dice rolls to decide authorship order. A brownie bake-off stands out as the most unusual and entertaining example. The post also highlights a retracted paper due to authorship disputes, along with examples using code and other innovative approaches. The lighthearted tone reveals the creativity and challenges researchers face when ordering authors.

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(dynamicecology.wordpress.com)
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The Friendship Recession: A Cultural Crisis and How to Combat It

2025-04-26
The Friendship Recession: A Cultural Crisis and How to Combat It

The US is experiencing a 'Friendship Recession,' with a dramatic decline in the number of close friendships among adults. This isn't solely due to structural factors like suburban sprawl and economic pressures; a deeper cultural shift is at play. Work has become a dominant social identity, family is prioritized over friendships, and online interactions replace in-person connections. The article explores the neuropsychological mechanisms behind this shift and proposes solutions: proactively creating opportunities for friendship formation (e.g., shared novel experiences) and maintaining friendships through structured activities. Ultimately, it argues that reversing this trend requires both structural changes and individual effort.

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(www.happiness.hks.harvard.edu)
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Deputy: A Clojure-Hosted Dependently-Typed Language

2025-05-20

Deputy is an experimental dependently-typed programming language embedded in Clojure, featuring inductive datatypes. It explores the implications of a Lisp-based REPL-driven workflow for both programming and type checking. Implemented as a Clojure library, it allows programmers to leverage the host language while working at the type level. This enables type-level computations that depend on values, unlocking powerful programming patterns. Importantly, despite the rich dynamic semantics of types, type checking remains a purely compile-time operation.

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(zenodo.org)
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Classicide: The Deliberate Destruction of a Social Class

2025-05-31

Sociologist Michael Mann's concept of 'classicide' describes the deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class through persecution and violence. Unlike genocide, which targets a group based on ethnicity, classicide targets a group defined by its social status, and unlike politicide, it's not concerned with political activity. The article cites examples like the Soviet Union's dekulakization policy, the Cambodian genocide, and the persecution of landlords and wealthy peasants during China's land reform as instances of classicide. These are presented as perversions of socialist democratic theory, similar to how ethnic cleansing is a perversion of nationalist democratic theory.

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Gaia Completes Sky Survey: 3 Trillion Observations, 2 Billion Stars

2025-01-15
Gaia Completes Sky Survey: 3 Trillion Observations, 2 Billion Stars

ESA's Gaia spacecraft has completed its decade-long sky survey, amassing over three trillion observations of roughly two billion stars and other celestial objects. This represents a revolutionary leap in our understanding of the Milky Way and our cosmic neighborhood. Despite nearing fuel depletion, Gaia's data continues to grow, fueling scientific research with over 13,000 publications and 580 million catalogue accesses to date. Two more massive data releases are yet to come, promising further revelations about the universe.

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(www.esa.int)
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Inria's Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm: Elegance Under Memory Constraints (1980s)

2025-06-04
Inria's Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm: Elegance Under Memory Constraints (1980s)

This article recounts the story of an efficient chain-linking algorithm developed at Inria in the 1980s, a time when memory was scarce. Developed by Gérard Giraudon's team, the algorithm cleverly addressed memory limitations, processing image contours using only three lines of memory. Now preserved by Software Heritage, this work showcases the innovative spirit of the era and offers a unique perspective on computer vision. Its efficiency remains remarkable even in today's memory-rich environment.

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(www.softwareheritage.org)
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Manhattan's Century-Old Steam System: A City's Thermal Legacy

2025-03-13

Since 1882, Manhattan has relied on a vast steam system to heat its buildings, from the Waldorf Astoria to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. This article delves into the history of this remarkable infrastructure, tracing its evolution from a solution to the heating challenges of a densely populated city to its continued role in supplying heat to much of Manhattan. The article also compares steam systems with modern hot water systems, exploring the role of district heating in the future of urban development.

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(worksinprogress.co)
Tech urban infrastructure energy systems

How the Environment Decided the American Revolutionary War

2025-06-02

This article details the suffering endured by British and Hessian soldiers during the American Revolutionary War due to the harsh environment. Extreme heat, swamps, mosquitoes, alligators, venomous snakes, and diseases like malaria and yellow fever resulted in a massive loss of life far exceeding battlefield casualties. Using soldier journals and letters, the author vividly portrays their fear and despair in the face of the American wilderness and the devastating impact on their physical and mental health. In contrast, American rebels portrayed America as a land of plenty and opportunity. The article highlights the decisive role of the environment in the war and the drastically different perceptions of it between opposing sides.

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(www.historytoday.com)
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Self-Contained Apache Lucene Examples: A Beginner's Guide to Full-Text Search

2025-04-23
Self-Contained Apache Lucene Examples: A Beginner's Guide to Full-Text Search

This GitHub repository provides a collection of Apache Lucene examples with detailed Markdown comments. Each example is self-contained and runnable, allowing learners to explore Lucene through reading the code, debugging, or interactive web documentation (https://msfroh.github.io/lucene-university/docs/SimpleSearch.html). The repository uses Lucene 10 and requires JDK 21 or higher. Contributions are welcome!

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(github.com)
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How Math Lit Up America: The Landscape Function and the LED Energy Revolution

2025-02-24
How Math Lit Up America: The Landscape Function and the LED Energy Revolution

US residential electricity consumption has slightly decreased in recent years, primarily due to improvements in lighting efficiency, specifically the widespread adoption of LED light bulbs. Behind this energy revolution is an unexpected driver: a breakthrough in pure mathematics—the landscape function. Initially a purely mathematical discovery, this function is now central to efficient LED design. Through numerical simulations, the landscape function has helped researchers overcome the "green gap" (the lack of efficient green LEDs), accelerating LED R&D and saving US consumers billions of dollars in energy costs.

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(terrytao.wordpress.com)
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Rust's rand Crate: A Dependency Nightmare for Random Number Generation

2025-02-08
Rust's rand Crate: A Dependency Nightmare for Random Number Generation

This article delves into the dependency issues of Rust's `rand` crate, used for random number generation. The author highlights the surprisingly large number of dependencies, leading to excessive compile times and bloated code size. `rand`'s dependency tree includes numerous crates like `libc`, `zerocopy`, and `ppv-lite86`, contributing significantly to the line count and compilation overhead. Potential solutions are suggested, including integrating some functionality into the standard library or improving `rand`'s dependency management. This sparks a discussion on the completeness of Rust's standard library and external crate dependency management.

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(lucumr.pocoo.org)
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NordVPN's New Protocol Aims to Evade VPN Blockers

2025-01-29
NordVPN's New Protocol Aims to Evade VPN Blockers

NordVPN has unveiled NordWhisper, a new protocol designed to bypass VPN blocks prevalent in countries like Russia and India. By mimicking regular internet traffic, it aims to fool ISPs and websites into thinking the traffic isn't from a masked service. While not foolproof and potentially adding latency, NordWhisper offers a valuable tool for users seeking access to restricted content or enhanced privacy. It's currently rolling out for Windows, Linux, and Android, with support for other platforms planned.

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(gizmodo.com)
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Chrome EULA Controversy: Google's Swift Response and Correction

2025-03-02
Chrome EULA Controversy: Google's Swift Response and Correction

A blog post clarifies a misunderstanding regarding a clause in the Google Chrome End User License Agreement (EULA). The clause granted Google broad rights to content created by users within Chrome, raising user concerns. The Google Chrome team swiftly responded, explaining it was due to the use of universal terms of service and that the clause didn't apply to Chrome, promising its removal. Google subsequently updated the EULA, explicitly stating users retain copyright and other rights to their content, resolving the controversy.

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(www.mattcutts.com)
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Cryptographic Security Shaken: Attack on Fiat-Shamir Transformation

2025-07-10
Cryptographic Security Shaken: Attack on Fiat-Shamir Transformation

New research has challenged the long-held assumption of the random oracle model in cryptography. Researchers demonstrated a method to trick proof systems using the widely adopted Fiat-Shamir transformation, enabling them to certify false statements. This transformation is crucial in systems like blockchains for verifying computations from external servers, relying on the random oracle model's assumption. The research shows that even under this assumption, attacks are possible. This finding necessitates a re-evaluation of the random oracle model and its implications for numerous cryptographic applications, raising concerns about blockchain security and the potential for cryptocurrency theft.

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(www.quantamagazine.org)
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UK Economy Surges, But Future Uncertain Amidst Global Trade Tensions

2025-05-15
UK Economy Surges, But Future Uncertain Amidst Global Trade Tensions

The British economy grew at its fastest pace in a year during the first quarter of 2025, expanding by 0.7%, a welcome boost for the Labour government. The services sector fueled this growth, making the UK the fastest-growing G7 economy in Q1. However, economists predict a slowdown in Q2 due to global uncertainty stemming from US tariffs and new UK taxes. While a US-UK trade deal was announced, reducing tariffs on some goods, the lingering effects of the US-China trade war and rising domestic prices are expected to dampen consumer demand and export growth.

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(apnews.com)
Tech UK economy global trade

Building a $1300 AI Server from Scratch: A Detailed Walkthrough

2025-06-06
Building a $1300 AI Server from Scratch: A Detailed Walkthrough

This post details the author's journey of building a personal AI server for under $1300. The process is meticulously documented, from procuring hardware (including an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU) and assembly, to installing Ubuntu Server and configuring software such as Nvidia drivers, the CUDA toolkit, and Python. The author outlines their hardware selection rationale, provides diagnostic commands, and explains how to set up remote management. The advantages of an on-premise server are highlighted: unrestricted learning, hands-on operational experience, and long-term cost savings. While limited in scale, this setup proves useful for smaller AI experiments.

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(www.informationga.in)
Hardware AI Server Hardware Build

Tesla's Next-Gen Vehicle Network and 4680 Battery: A Technological Leap

2025-04-21
Tesla's Next-Gen Vehicle Network and 4680 Battery: A Technological Leap

Tesla is undergoing a significant vehicle architecture upgrade. They're replacing the legacy CAN bus with a next-generation network based on TDMA, enabling more efficient data transfer for high-resolution infotainment, OTA updates, and autonomous driving. Simultaneously, Tesla's 4680 battery, particularly its second-generation "Cybercell," is improving production efficiency, lowering costs, and enhancing vehicle performance. However, the launch of a cheaper Model Y has been pushed back to Q3 2025 or early 2026, suggesting Tesla is prioritizing its technological advancements and production optimization.

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(www.notateslaapp.com)
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Rethinking Parenthood: Village Raising vs. Nuclear Family

2025-05-28
Rethinking Parenthood: Village Raising vs. Nuclear Family

In many Western societies, raising children is viewed as a massive sacrifice, often involving sleep deprivation, limited social life, and neglected hobbies. This article challenges that perspective by highlighting examples of communities where raising children is a shared, joyful endeavor. Several case studies showcase how co-housing and eco-villages offer support networks that alleviate parental stress, fostering better-adjusted children and happier parents. The author argues for a shift away from the isolated nuclear family model, suggesting that communal child-rearing is a more sustainable and fulfilling approach.

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(supernuclear.substack.com)
Misc community parenting cohousing childcare
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