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Roboflow: Hiring a Senior Open Source Software Engineer to Power Computer Vision

2025-01-09

Roboflow: Hiring a Senior Open Source Software Engineer to Power Computer Vision

YC-backed computer vision platform Roboflow is hiring a senior open-source software engineer. Roboflow's mission is to make computer vision accessible to every developer; its platform is used by over 500,000 developers, including half of the Fortune 100. The role requires extensive open-source project experience, proficiency in Python, PyTorch, and related technologies, and strong communication and content creation skills. The successful candidate will contribute to and maintain Roboflow's numerous open-source projects and have a significant impact on their direction. The company offers competitive compensation and benefits, including remote work options and flexible hours.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development

Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Unlocking Efficient Data Compression

2025-02-01

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) is a clever data compression algorithm that rearranges a character string to create runs of similar characters, making it easier to compress using techniques like run-length encoding. Imagine shuffling a text to create many consecutive 'the's – much easier to compress! BWT sorts all cyclic shifts of the string and extracts the last column. Remarkably, this transformation is reversible without needing extra data. Used in bzip2 and other compression tools, BWT also finds applications in genomics, image compression, and more. Its efficiency is further enhanced by algorithms that update the transform quickly after text edits, minimizing computational overhead.

(en.wikipedia.org)

Tech Burrows-Wheeler Transform

HD Hyundai's Hydrogen-Powered Excavator: A Cool Concept, But Is It Practical?

2025-02-01

HD Hyundai's Hydrogen-Powered Excavator: A Cool Concept, But Is It Practical?

HD Hyundai is unveiling its production-ready HW155H, a 14-ton hydrogen fuel cell-powered wheeled excavator, at Bauma. This quiet, zero-emission machine boasts an eight-hour operational lifespan between refills. While the concept won a Platinum Prize at the LACP Inspire Awards, the article questions the long-term practicality of hydrogen power in construction fleets compared to the anticipated all-electric HW155E.

(electrek.co)

Tech hydrogen excavator HD Hyundai

Stop Calling Kin Work 'Emotional Labor': It's 'F*cking Work'

2025-02-03

Stop Calling Kin Work 'Emotional Labor': It's 'F*cking Work'

The author challenges the common practice of labeling the work of maintaining family relationships, particularly that disproportionately done by women, as "emotional labor." She argues this term obscures the crucial importance of this work, which she calls "kin work." This isn't simply emotional management; it's essential labor for maintaining human social networks, ensuring survival and support. Dismissing it as "emotional labor" undervalues its significance and ignores its continued necessity in modern society. The author calls for shared responsibility in maintaining family connections, rather than viewing it as a solely female burden.

(thefuturefeeling.substack.com)

Misc family relationships gender equality

Codeberg: A Non-Profit Git Hosting Platform Championing Open Source

2025-02-04

Codeberg, a non-profit organization based in Berlin, Germany, operates a Git hosting platform prioritizing the commons. Unlike commercial platforms, Codeberg rejects tracking, third-party cookies, and profiteering. It maintains its own servers, ensuring user data remains secure and is never sold. Its vibrant community comprises developers, artists, academics, hobbyists, and professionals united by a passion for free culture, openness, and creativity. Codeberg's future depends on its users, and welcomes global participation.

(codeberg.org)

Development

Cosmopolitan 3.0: Write Once, Run Anywhere (and Faster!)

2025-02-01

Cosmopolitan 3.0: Write Once, Run Anywhere (and Faster!)

Cosmopolitan library version 3.0 is here! Nearly a year in the making, this release is a game-changer. A single executable now runs on AMD64 and ARM64 architectures across Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. This is powered by a new linker, apelink.c, cleverly weaving together PE, ELF, Mach-O, and PKZIP file formats. Cosmopolitan 3.0 also boasts massive improvements to Windows and macOS compatibility, plus significant speed and memory efficiency gains. Included is a "fat Linux distro," Cosmos, containing tools like Emacs, Vim, and CoreUtils. This innovative approach delivers not just unparalleled portability, but superior performance as well.

(justine.lol)

Development executable

Apple Cancels AR Glasses Project, Signaling Vision Pro Struggles

2025-01-31

Apple Cancels AR Glasses Project, Signaling Vision Pro Struggles

Apple has canceled its project to build advanced augmented reality glasses (codenamed N107), designed to pair with its devices. This follows the underwhelming reception of the $3,499 Apple Vision Pro headset. The N107 project aimed for a more consumer-friendly, affordable AR experience, but faced challenges in technology and cost. The cancellation represents a setback for Apple's AR ambitions and highlights the difficulty in creating successful consumer AR devices. While Apple continues development on Vision Pro successors and other AR technologies, the N107 cancellation impacts morale and underscores ongoing challenges in the market.

(finance.yahoo.com)

Tech AR glasses

Self-Taught AI Researcher Emil Wallner: An Extraordinary Journey

2025-02-07

Self-Taught AI Researcher Emil Wallner: An Extraordinary Journey

Emil Wallner, a self-taught AI researcher, has an extraordinary life story. From teaching in a rural village in Africa to becoming a machine learning researcher at Google Art & Culture, his career is full of adventure and challenges. He created the popular open-source project Screenshot-to-code, which translates design mock-ups into HTML/CSS, and was featured in a short film by Google for his work on automated colorization. This interview delves into Emil's AI journey, his advice for aspiring self-taught research scientists, and his insights into the future of AI research. He emphasizes the importance of practical experience and building a strong portfolio to gain recognition in the field.

(floydhub.ghost.io)

AI self-taught research

Smoot-Hawley Tariff: An Epic Trade Disaster

2025-02-02

Smoot-Hawley Tariff: An Epic Trade Disaster

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, a protectionist trade policy that dramatically increased tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods, is widely considered a major contributor to the Great Depression. Intended to shield American industries and workers, it instead triggered a global trade war, resulting in a sharp decline in US exports and imports, shrinking global trade and soaring unemployment. Despite warnings from economists, President Hoover signed the bill, a decision that exacerbated the economic crisis. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff remains a cautionary tale of the perils of protectionism.

(en.wikipedia.org)

Tech Smoot-Hawley Tariff Great Depression Protectionism

EU Scrutinizes Apple's New App Developer Fees

2025-01-13

EU Scrutinizes Apple's New App Developer Fees

Bloomberg reports that Apple's new fees for app developers are under scrutiny by the European Union's antitrust regulators. Concerns have been raised that the new "core technology fee" could inflate costs for software makers. The EU is investigating whether the new charges will be passed on to consumers and whether developers will be forced to adjust their business models. Apple claims that 85% of developers on its App Store don't pay any commission.

(finance.yahoo.com)

Tech Antitrust

Apple iPhones Join SpaceX Starlink Satellite Messaging Test

2025-02-02

Apple iPhones Join SpaceX Starlink Satellite Messaging Test

T-Mobile has announced that iPhones running the latest iOS 18.3 software are now eligible to participate in SpaceX's Starlink direct-to-cell phone testing program. Currently in a trial phase, the program initially supports satellite text messaging, with voice and data capabilities planned for the future. Previously, the test was limited to select Android devices. This collaboration signifies a step towards broader device compatibility for Starlink, offering new communication possibilities in remote areas or disaster zones.

(www.yahoo.com)

Tech satellite communication

Ambulance Chasing After a 911 Call: Capitalism's Dark Side?

2025-01-31

Ambulance Chasing After a 911 Call: Capitalism's Dark Side?

A false alarm at 3 AM led to a fire department visit, ultimately revealing a faulty HVAC system. Hours later, a Servpro representative aggressively solicited cleanup services. The author suspects their 911 call information, likely accessible via platforms like PulsePoint, was used to generate a sales lead. This incident highlights a disturbing trend of exploiting emergencies for profit, raising concerns about consumer privacy and the ethical implications of data sharing.

(a.wholelottanothing.org)

Misc disaster capitalism

Google Play 2024 Security Report: AI-Powered Defenses Protect Billions

2025-02-03

Google Play 2024 Security Report: AI-Powered Defenses Protect Billions

Google's 2024 Google Play security report highlights its commitment to user and developer safety. Leveraging AI-powered threat detection, strengthened privacy policies, and enhanced developer tools, Google Play prevented 2.36 million policy-violating apps from publication and banned over 158,000 malicious developer accounts. The report focuses on AI's role in proactively identifying malware, collaboration with developers to improve security and privacy (limiting access to sensitive data, enhanced data deletion options), and Google Play Protect's real-time scanning which identified over 13 million malicious apps from outside Google Play. New fraud protection features shield users from scams and malware. Google also collaborates with governments and industry partners to establish new app security assessment standards for a safer app ecosystem.

(security.googleblog.com)

Tech App Security

DOJ Claims Money Isn't Property: A Legal Absurdity

2025-01-31

DOJ Claims Money Isn't Property: A Legal Absurdity

In a shocking legal argument, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed that confiscating $50,000 from a small business owner, Chuck Saine, didn't violate his property rights because money isn't property. Their reasoning? The government creates money, can tax it, and the Constitution allows spending for the 'general welfare'. This absurd claim challenges fundamental property rights and has sparked outrage. The case will be decided in court, but the DOJ's argument raises serious concerns about governmental overreach.

(reason.com)

Misc property rights government overreach

The Surprising Physics of Microwave Ovens

2025-02-06

Microwave ovens are ubiquitous in American kitchens, but their inner workings are far more complex than simply heating food. This article delves into the science behind microwave cooking, explaining the formation of hot and cold spots, and offering strategies for optimal reheating. From its origins in WWII radar technology to its modern applications, the article traces the history of the microwave oven and explores the varying responses of different foods to microwave radiation. Practical tips are provided to avoid uneven heating, and safety concerns are addressed.

(www.genuineideas.com)

Tech microwave oven cooking

Critical Android Zero-Day: CVE-2024-53104 Exploited in the Wild

2025-02-07

Critical Android Zero-Day: CVE-2024-53104 Exploited in the Wild

A critical zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2024-53104, affecting the Linux kernel's USB Video Class (UVC) driver, allows privilege escalation on Android devices without additional permissions. Actively exploited in the wild, this flaw enables attackers to install malware, alter data, or gain full administrative control. Google has released emergency patches, but immediate updates are crucial for all Android users. This vulnerability highlights the ongoing threat of zero-day exploits and the importance of timely patching.

(thedefendopsdiaries.com)

Tech

Copyright Reform: A National Security Imperative

2025-02-01

Anna's Archive, the world's largest shadow library containing over 140 million copyrighted texts, is being used to train LLMs by Chinese companies. The authors argue this poses a national security threat requiring Western nations to reform copyright law. They propose shortening copyright terms and creating exceptions for mass preservation and dissemination of texts, allowing LLM training companies legal access to this data. This is not just an economic issue, but crucial for maintaining a lead in the AI race and even national security.

(annas-archive.org)

Tech copyright reform

FOSDEM 2024: A Packed Schedule of Open Source Goodness

2025-02-01

The FOSDEM 2024 schedule is out, boasting a diverse range of talks and workshops. Topics include Rust for Linux, a novel memory allocator, LLVM libc, SMB3.11 Unix extensions, NixOS, AI-powered API documentation testing, a RISC-V TEE, a safepoint garbage collector, enhanced spam detection, and much more. Panels cover AI ethics, collaborative application integration, the RISC-V unified database, Android upgrades, HAMNET, DPoP, and OpenLayers. Even junior developers are catered for with Python and computer programming introductions. No matter your area of interest, FOSDEM 2024 has something for you.

(fosdem.org)

Development Developer Conference

Ancient Amazonian Waterworks Enabled Year-Round Maize Farming

2025-02-02

Ancient Amazonian Waterworks Enabled Year-Round Maize Farming

Archaeologists have discovered that the ancient Casarabe people of South America transformed seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into year-round maize farming hotspots by building an innovative network of drainage canals and water-storing ponds. This allowed for two maize harvests annually, fueling the growth of the Casarabe civilization across 4,500 square kilometers from 500 to 1400 CE. The findings challenge previous understandings of Amazonian agriculture and highlight the sophisticated water management techniques of these ancient people.

(www.sciencenews.org)

Tech Ancient Agriculture Water Management Amazonian Civilization

AMD's Versal RF Series: Revolutionizing RF Signal Processing with Integrated Direct RF-Sampling

2025-02-04

AMD's Versal RF Series: Revolutionizing RF Signal Processing with Integrated Direct RF-Sampling

AMD is revolutionizing RF signal processing with its new Versal RF Series adaptive SoCs. These chips integrate high-resolution RF data converters, hard IP DSP compute blocks, and AI engines onto a single die, delivering up to 80 TOPS of DSP performance and 32 GSPS sample rates. Targeting aerospace & defense and test & measurement markets, the Versal RF Series boasts 19x more DSP compute and 80% lower power consumption compared to its predecessor. Its high-resolution, wideband spectrum observability and low-latency processing make it ideal for applications like phased array radar, electromagnetic spectrum operations, and military satellite communication terminals.

(www.electronicsweekly.com)

Hardware RF Data Converters

Hubble's Epic Panorama: 200 Million Stars in Andromeda Galaxy

2025-01-25

Hubble's Epic Panorama: 200 Million Stars in Andromeda Galaxy

The Hubble Space Telescope has created its largest-ever panorama of the Andromeda galaxy, showcasing over 200 million stars after more than a decade of work. Composed of over 600 individual Hubble images, this 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic reveals unprecedented detail of our galactic neighbor. Astronomers will use this data to study Andromeda's age, heavy element abundance, stellar masses, and its merger history with other galaxies. This monumental achievement provides invaluable data for understanding the evolution of the universe. The successor to Hubble, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is set to launch in 2027 and will capture even higher resolution images.

(www.techspot.com)

Tech

BZip3: A Superior Successor to BZip2

2025-02-01

BZip3: A Superior Successor to BZip2

BZip3 is a faster and more efficient successor to BZip2, boasting higher compression ratios and improved performance. This is achieved through an order-0 context mixing entropy coder, a fast Burrows-Wheeler transform utilizing suffix arrays, and an RLE with Lempel Ziv+Prediction pass based on LZ77-style string matching and PPM-style context modeling. Benchmarks comparing it against other compression algorithms, including tests on a massive archive of Perl source code, demonstrate its significant advantages. BZip3's performance is highly dependent on the compiler, with x64 Linux clang13 builds showing impressive speeds. The project is licensed under LGPLv3.

(github.com)

Development

US Halts $5 Billion Electric Vehicle Charging Station Program

2025-02-07

US Halts $5 Billion Electric Vehicle Charging Station Program

The US Department of Transportation has ordered states to halt their plans for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, a $5 billion initiative to fund the construction of electric vehicle charging stations. This decision, which may be illegal, could impact charging stations already under construction and harm businesses that have invested in the program. Tesla has also received $31 million in awards from the program. The move appears to contradict court orders and the Administrative Procedures Act.

(www.wired.com)

Tech charging stations

Backblaze's 1TB File Backup Nightmare: A 100,000 Chunk Limit?

2025-02-04

A user reports Backblaze continuously re-uploading a 1TB+ file, with log errors suggesting a 100,000 chunk limit (10MB each). This contradicts Backblaze's advertised unlimited storage. The user suspects a newly implemented limit, possibly even leading to deletion of existing backups. Support's response has been unhelpful, offering only standard troubleshooting steps.

(wadetregaskis.com)

Tech cloud backup file size limit

2000-Year-Old Mummies Found with Gold Tongues in Egypt

2025-02-06

2000-Year-Old Mummies Found with Gold Tongues in Egypt

Archaeologists unearthed 13 mummies in Egypt dating back over 2,000 years, each with a gold amulet replacing their tongue. Ancient Egyptians believed this ensured the deceased could speak in the afterlife. This discovery is exceptionally rare due to widespread tomb raiding. Beyond the golden tongues, the tombs yielded ritual texts, colorful inscriptions and artwork, scarabs, amulets, canopic jars, and more gold—including golden fingernails, another symbol of afterlife protection. The find offers invaluable insight into the religious practices and burial traditions of the Ptolemaic era (305-30 BC).

(www.popularmechanics.com)

Tech Ancient Egypt Mummies

Microsoft Cracks Down on Windows 11 TPM 2.0 Bypass Tools

2025-02-04

Microsoft Cracks Down on Windows 11 TPM 2.0 Bypass Tools

Microsoft has removed documentation on bypassing Windows 11's TPM 2.0 requirement and flagged the popular bypass tool Flyby11 as potential malware in its Defender antivirus. This move aims to prevent users from installing Windows 11 on incompatible hardware. With Windows 10's support ending soon, Microsoft is pushing users to upgrade or buy new PCs, but Flyby11's developer is working to resolve the issue.

(www.xda-developers.com)

Tech

Running Python and Pygame on a $30 Handheld Linux PC

2025-02-01

This post details how the author installed Debian and ran Python and Pygame on the ~$30 Miyoo A30 handheld. After flashing spruceOS, a Debian chroot environment with Python 3, Pygame, and necessary libraries was created using debootstrap. To solve graphics and input driver issues, essential libraries were copied from spruceOS into the chroot. Finally, a script was written to add a Pygame game to the spruceOS interface, successfully running a custom game on the Miyoo A30. While a 90-degree screen rotation issue remains, this post provides a complete guide to running complex programs on a low-cost handheld.

(www.jtolio.com)

Development

Stop Overusing Feature Flags: They're Often Unnecessary

2025-02-01

Stop Overusing Feature Flags: They're Often Unnecessary

Many teams rely heavily on feature flag management software, believing it solves all problems, but this introduces complexity and risks. This article argues that for most teams, a simple JSON configuration file suffices; read at application startup to control feature visibility. Overusing feature flags leads to unmaintainable code and increased security risks. The author suggests that only when needing large-scale runtime feature changes should complex feature flag management software be considered, avoiding premature optimization.

(code.mendhak.com)

Development feature flags

Francis Picabia's 391: Perpetual Motion in Dada and Beyond

2025-01-09

Francis Picabia's *391*: Perpetual Motion in Dada and Beyond

Francis Picabia, a close associate of Marcel Duchamp, was known for his multiple pseudonyms and his rebellious approach to artistic movements. His art review, *391* (1917-1924), chronicles his complex relationship with Dada and Surrealism. The magazine's eclectic content—poetry, artwork, satirical essays—reflects Picabia's anti-establishment stance. Ultimately, he declared his 'Instantanism,' rejecting all artistic movements and proclaiming that art is not a movement, but perpetual motion.

(publicdomainreview.org)

Design Dada Surrealism Picabia

Apple Launches Apple Invites: A New App for Seamless Event Planning

2025-02-04

Apple Launches Apple Invites: A New App for Seamless Event Planning

Apple unveiled Apple Invites, a new iPhone app designed to simplify event planning. Users can create custom invitations, share them easily, manage RSVPs, and even contribute to shared albums and collaborative Apple Music playlists. The app integrates with Maps and Weather for convenient guest information. Apple Intelligence features (available on select iPhone models) allow users to create unique invitations using AI-powered image generation and writing tools. Anyone can RSVP, regardless of Apple account ownership, while iCloud+ subscribers gain access to expanded storage and other premium features.

(www.apple.com)

Tech Event Planning

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