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Open-Source AI Video Starter Kit for Browser-Based Production

2025-01-23

Open-Source AI Video Starter Kit for Browser-Based Production

The open-source project video-starter-kit offers a browser-based toolkit for AI-powered video creation. Built with Next.js, Remotion, and fal.ai, it integrates AI models like Minimax, Hunyuan, and LTX, enabling browser-native video processing, multi-clip composition, audio track integration, voiceover support, and extended video duration handling. Developers can leverage ready-to-use UI components and TypeScript support for rapid AI video application development.

(github.com)

Development AI video

Gen Z's 'Career Catfishing': A Silent Workplace Rebellion

2025-01-18

Gen Z's 'Career Catfishing': A Silent Workplace Rebellion

A recent survey reveals that one-third of Gen Z adults are engaging in "career catfishing" – accepting job offers but intentionally not showing up on the first day. This trend reflects Gen Z's pushback against workplace pressures, prioritizing personal needs and goals over conforming to corporate culture. From "quiet quitting" to "coffee badging," Gen Z is challenging traditional workplace norms and seeking work-life balance in various ways.

(nypost.com)

Startup Gen Z workplace culture rebellion

MiceWine: Running Windows Apps and Games on Android

2024-12-30

MiceWine: Running Windows Apps and Games on Android

MiceWine aims to run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones. It uses a customized Wine build compiled for Android and Box64 for optimal performance. Currently under active development, it utilizes a Termux-X11 based XServer. Supports Android 10 and above. Adreno 7xx and 6xx GPUs are supported with Turnip/Zink, while others have partial support with native/Zink (experimental). Native Vulkan on non-Adreno GPUs is experimental and requires testing.

(github.com)

Development Windows applications

Finishing Side Projects with LLMs and Cursor

2025-01-04

Finishing Side Projects with LLMs and Cursor

This blog post details how the author dramatically improved their side project completion rate using LLMs and the Cursor IDE. Facing time constraints, they leveraged AI to refine project specifications, bootstrap code generation, and iterate effectively. A habit tracker website serves as a case study, walking through the process from initial spec (refined with ChatGPT) to deployment via GitHub Actions. Key strategies include using Vite for project setup, Cursor's agent mode for code generation, iterative development with a divide-and-conquer approach, and providing ample context to the LLMs. The author emphasizes the importance of choosing the right LLM and Cursor mode for different tasks, ultimately delivering a functional v1 of the habit tracker.

(zohaib.me)

Development AI-assisted development productivity tools

Newton Public Schools' 'Equity' Experiment Fails

2024-12-14

Newton Public Schools' 'Equity' Experiment Fails

In the fall of 2021, Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts implemented a complex initiative called "multilevel classrooms" aimed at improving educational equity. This model mixed students of varying academic abilities into single classrooms with one teacher. Three years later, the results are troubling. Teachers report the model fails to meet the needs of diverse learners; high-achieving students are stifled, while lower-achieving students are hesitant to ask questions. Lack of adequate training and support for teachers led to poor outcomes, with students in multilevel classes often underperforming their single-level counterparts. The school lacked metrics for success, and no data supported the model's efficacy. A teacher's council petitioned to roll back multilevel classes in STEM and world languages, urging the district to find better solutions for addressing educational equity. The failure highlights the need for data-driven approaches and a focus on student needs in educational reform.

(www.thefp.com)

Misc educational equity multilevel classrooms teaching reform

Proton Raises Over $1 Million to Support a Better Internet

2025-01-14

Proton Raises Over $1 Million to Support a Better Internet

Proton's annual charity fundraiser, a raffle for Lifetime Accounts, raised over $1 million, a record-breaking amount, to support organizations fighting for privacy, freedom of expression, and human rights worldwide. This brings the total raised over seven years to over $4 million. The funds will go to 10 organizations chosen by the Proton community, in addition to those supported in previous years. Beyond financial contributions, Proton provides free services in regions with privacy threats, supports open-source projects, and actively combats online censorship. This success highlights the power of community action towards building a better digital future.

(proton.me)

Tech Charity Online Privacy

Is Zero Singular or Plural?

2025-01-22

A lively discussion on Stack Exchange explores the grammatical number of 'zero' in English. The question stems from a math textbook example using 'zero 3s', treating zero as plural. This isn't a mathematical rule but a quirk of English grammar. When 'zero' modifies a countable noun, the noun often takes a plural form, mirroring the usage of other words expressing negation. The debate highlights the complexities of English grammar and the sometimes counter-intuitive nature of language.

(ell.stackexchange.com)

Misc English grammar Number Plural

Why I Don't Use Domain-Driven Design

2024-12-29

Tony Marston, a seasoned software developer with four decades of experience building enterprise applications, explains why he doesn't use Domain-Driven Design (DDD). He argues that DDD overemphasizes object-oriented design theory at the expense of database design and code reusability in large systems. He prefers a layered architecture with a separate class for each database table, leveraging inheritance and the Template Method pattern for code reuse. Marston believes this approach better suits real-world projects and increases development efficiency.

(www.tonymarston.net)

Development Domain-Driven Design Code Reusability

OmniAI (YC) is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer

2025-01-07

OmniAI (YC) is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer

OmniAI, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring a full-stack engineer with a salary of $125,000-$175,000 and equity. They're building a new way to work with unstructured data, enabling large-scale analytics previously impossible. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience, proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript, React/NextJS, Postgres, and a deep understanding of LLMs and OCR. The interview process involves a phone screen, architecture design interview, and an on-site coding challenge.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: A Reflective Pause

2024-12-22

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: A Reflective Pause

Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" paints a serene and evocative winter scene. The speaker pauses by a snow-covered wood, contemplating the quiet beauty of the night. His horse seems puzzled by the unscheduled stop, mirroring the speaker's own internal conflict between the allure of the tranquil woods and the responsibilities that await. The poem's enduring appeal lies in its elegant imagery and profound reflection on life's commitments.

(poets.org)

Misc poetry Robert Frost nature

AI vs. End-to-End Encryption: A Privacy Showdown

2025-01-17

AI vs. End-to-End Encryption: A Privacy Showdown

This article explores the clash between AI and end-to-end encryption. The rise of AI assistants necessitates off-device processing of increasingly sensitive data, challenging the privacy protections offered by end-to-end encryption. While companies like Apple are attempting to mitigate this with 'Private Cloud Compute' and trusted hardware, this approach relies on complex software and hardware security, falling short of a perfect solution. A deeper concern lies in the control of powerful AI agents; once deployed, access becomes paramount, raising the specter of government or corporate access compromising personal privacy.

(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

Tech AI privacy end-to-end encryption

Bag of Words: Build and Share Smart Data Apps with AI

2025-02-17

Bag of Words: Build and Share Smart Data Apps with AI

Bag of Words empowers users to create comprehensive dashboards from a single prompt and iteratively refine them. It seamlessly integrates with various data sources, including databases, APIs, and business systems, enabling efficient data utilization. Key features include natural language queries, dashboard management, and compatibility with multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). The project offers Docker deployment and detailed setup instructions for Python and Node.js environments, using the AGPL-3.0 license.

(github.com)

AI Data Applications

MyST Markdown: Open-Source Tools Revolutionizing Scientific Communication

2025-01-05

MyST Markdown: Open-Source Tools Revolutionizing Scientific Communication

MyST Markdown is an open-source, community-driven ecosystem of tools designed to transform scientific communication. It supports authoring blogs, online books, scientific papers, reports, and journal articles, offering powerful features like embedded live graphs, Jupyter integration, PDF export, and compatibility with hundreds of journals. At its core is a flexible Markdown extension that seamlessly integrates code, computational results, and interactive elements, creating dynamic and engaging documents. Whether you're a scientist, engineer, or technical writer, MyST empowers you to share your research and knowledge more effectively.

(mystmd.org)

Development Scientific Writing Open-Source Tools

Linux 6.13 Stable Released: AMD Optimizations, Broader Apple Support & More

2025-01-20

The Linux 6.13 stable kernel is here, bringing exciting features like AMD 3D V-Cache optimizations for Ryzen X3D processors, improved power efficiency for AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" servers, support for older Apple devices, and AutoFDO/Propeller compiler optimizations. Initial Intel Xe3 graphics support, NVMe 2.1 support, and expanded Rust language infrastructure are also included. Marking the first major kernel release of 2025, Linux 6.13 significantly boosts performance and hardware compatibility.

(www.phoronix.com)

Development

The Academic Great Gatsby Curve: How Much of Academic Success Is Inherited?

2024-12-21

The Academic Great Gatsby Curve: How Much of Academic Success Is Inherited?

A new study reveals that academic success mirrors the inheritance of wealth and social status. Analyzing data from over 245,000 mentor-mentee pairs, researchers found that the more unequal the citation distribution within a discipline, the more likely a mentee's citation ranking reflects their mentor's. This suggests academic success is shaped by structural forces similar to those governing social mobility, where the advantage of a top mentor creates a self-reinforcing cycle of success. While acknowledging the benefits of top mentorship, the study cautions against relying solely on citation metrics, advocating for greater academic equity and equal opportunity.

(blogs.lse.ac.uk)

AI academic success mentor-mentee relationships academic inequality

White House Near Collapse: An Unprecedented Reconstruction

2024-12-14

White House Near Collapse: An Unprecedented Reconstruction

In 1948, the White House, worn down by war damage and hasty renovations, faced imminent collapse due to structural decay and inadequate foundations. President Truman and his family were relocated, initiating a three-year comprehensive reconstruction. This project not only repaired the critical structural issues but also modernized the White House, adding basements, expanding utility spaces, and nearly doubling the number of rooms. A secret atomic bomb shelter was also constructed, reflecting the anxieties of the Cold War era. While the renovated White House was modernized, the removal of original interior elements altered its historical character.

(en.wikipedia.org)

Misc White House Reconstruction Truman Historic Preservation

28-Hour Days: A Year-Long Experiment

2025-01-09

The author shares their experience of living on a 28-hour day schedule for a year. They found it to be the second best thing they've done for their health, after regular exercise. Adaptation took two months, involving overcoming sleepiness and communication challenges with their partner. Strategic naps became key to managing their schedule, and they've become adept at switching between 28 and 24-hour cycles. While the unconventional schedule complicates social interactions, the author reports significant benefits: improved sleep consistency, increased free time, more frequent exercise, and a quieter, less crowded environment for workouts. Despite the social adjustments, the benefits are deemed to far outweigh the inconveniences.

(sidhion.com)

Misc lifestyle sleep schedule

Genesis Engine: A Universal Physics Engine Ushering in a New Era for Robotics and AI

2024-12-22

Genesis is a powerful, general-purpose physics engine and robotics simulation platform capable of simulating a wide range of materials and physical phenomena at unprecedented speeds. It can even generate physically accurate videos and robotic policies from natural language descriptions. For example, it can simulate Sun Wukong performing somersaults, a samurai practicing boxing, and various robots completing complex tasks, with Sim2Real policy transfer capabilities. Currently open-source, the engine will gradually release its generative framework in the future, promising to revolutionize data generation for robotics and AI.

(genesis-embodied-ai.github.io)

AI AI data generation

Google Cuts Code Migration Time in Half with AI

2025-01-16

Google Cuts Code Migration Time in Half with AI

Google reports using its AI tools to halve the time required for code migrations. This involved projects like migrating 32-bit IDs to 64-bit IDs in the Google Ads codebase, upgrading JUnit testing libraries, and replacing the Joda time library. While human review is still necessary, the AI significantly sped up the process, reducing what would have taken hundreds of engineering years to just months. Google emphasizes the AI should be used in conjunction with traditional methods for optimal efficiency and cost management.

(www.theregister.com)

Development Code Migration

Trump and Musk's Daylight Saving Time Plan: A Battle Over Sunlight

2024-12-21

Trump and Musk's Daylight Saving Time Plan: A Battle Over Sunlight

President-elect Trump and Elon Musk propose eliminating Daylight Saving Time, calling it "inconvenient and costly." Nate Silver's analysis uses data to counter this, showing that abolishing DST would significantly reduce daylight hours during summer, negatively impacting schedules and health. Year-round DST, conversely, would cause very late sunrises in winter. Silver argues maintaining the status quo or allowing states to opt for year-round DST are more sensible options.

(www.natesilver.net)

Misc Daylight Saving Time Trump Musk

Massive Data Breach: 190 Million Americans Affected by Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack

2025-01-25

Massive Data Breach: 190 Million Americans Affected by Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack

UnitedHealth Group confirmed that a ransomware attack on its subsidiary, Change Healthcare, in February 2024 affected approximately 190 million Americans – nearly double previous estimates. The attack resulted in the theft of massive amounts of sensitive health and insurance data, including names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, and medical records. Some data was even published online by the hackers. Change Healthcare paid ransoms to prevent further data release. This is the largest healthcare data breach in US history, highlighting critical vulnerabilities in the healthcare system's cybersecurity.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech healthcare security

Unit Testing Reimagined: Beyond the Dogma

2025-02-15

Traditional unit testing often falls into dogma, leading to wasted time and ineffective tests. This article challenges the very definition of a 'unit', advocating for user-centric integration and end-to-end tests instead of rigidly testing every class or method. The author suggests reducing reliance on code isolation and mocks, leveraging real databases and tools like Docker for increased efficiency and meaningful tests. TDD is presented as not a silver bullet, with software architecture design prioritizing non-functional requirements. Ultimately, the key decision in choosing a testing strategy is balancing quality assurance, refactoring resilience, and speed of feedback; often, modern tools make fast e2e or integration tests feasible.

(linkedrecords.com)

Development unit testing

AI Scaling Laws: Beyond Pre-training, a New Paradigm Emerges

2024-12-12

AI Scaling Laws: Beyond Pre-training, a New Paradigm Emerges

This article explores the evolution of AI scaling laws, arguing that they extend beyond pre-training. OpenAI's o1 model demonstrates the utility and potential of reasoning models, opening a new, unexplored dimension for scaling. The article delves into techniques like synthetic data, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), and reinforcement learning to enhance model performance. It clarifies that Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Opus and OpenAI's Orion weren't failures, but rather shifts in scaling strategies. The authors emphasize that scaling encompasses more than just increasing data and parameters; it includes inference-time compute, more challenging evaluations, and innovations in training and inference architecture.

(semianalysis.com)

AI AI scaling large language models reasoning models

SmolGPT: A Minimal PyTorch Implementation for Training Small LLMs

2025-01-29

SmolGPT: A Minimal PyTorch Implementation for Training Small LLMs

SmolGPT is a minimal PyTorch project designed for educational purposes, allowing users to train their own small language models (LLMs) from scratch. It features a modern architecture incorporating Flash Attention, RMSNorm, and SwiGLU, along with efficient sampling techniques. The project provides a complete training pipeline, pre-trained model weights, and text generation examples, making it easy to learn about and experiment with LLM training.

(github.com)

Development LLM training

Startup Failure After 3 Years: Founder Open-Sources All Code

2024-12-17

Startup Failure After 3 Years: Founder Open-Sources All Code

After three years, Dylan Huang's developer tools startup, Konfig, has shut down. Konfig focused on simplifying API integrations, with its core product being an SDK generator alongside API documentation and testing tools. Despite gaining some early traction, the company failed to achieve hyper-growth due to challenges in securing contracts and low pricing. A pivot to a B2B SaaS AI product also proved unsuccessful. Now, Huang is open-sourcing Konfig's entire codebase – including the core product, failed pivots, and various supporting scripts – hoping it will be beneficial to others. While the startup ended in failure, Huang emphasizes the invaluable lessons learned.

(dylanhuang.com)

Startup startup failure open source code API development tools

LLMs: The Biggest Mistake in Computing?

2024-12-28

The author criticizes Large Language Models (LLMs), arguing they are not the future of computing but a potential setback. For decades, corporations prioritized profit over software quality and user experience, resulting in slow, bloated, and buggy software. LLMs perpetuate this trend, being slow, expensive, and unreliable. The author worries that massive investments will prevent their abandonment, leading to a computing world dominated by a few giants, stifling innovation, and depriving future generations of high-quality software.

(crys.site)

Development Tech Ethics

Foundations of Large Language Models: A New Book Decoding Core Concepts

2025-01-23

A new book, "Foundations of Large Language Models," has been released. Instead of aiming for comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge technologies, it delves into the core foundational concepts of large language models. Structured into four chapters covering pre-training, generative models, prompting techniques, and alignment methods, the book is geared towards college students, professionals, and practitioners in natural language processing and related fields. It serves as a valuable reference for anyone interested in LLMs.

(arxiv.org)

AI

FreeWHA: Free Web Hosting Since 2005 – Still Going Strong!

2025-01-27

Free Web Hosting Area (FreeWHA) offers free web hosting services since 2005, boasting reliable uptime and a robust feature set. Users get 1500MB of free space, unmetered bandwidth, Apache 2.4, PHP 7.1, MariaDB 10.4, FTP access, and an autoinstaller. While free, FreeWHA runs on fast servers and provides responsive support, accepting donations to maintain its operations. The service guarantees 99.8% yearly uptime.

(www.freewebhostingarea.com)

Development free hosting servers

FreeBSD as a High-Fidelity Audio Server: A Deep Dive

2025-02-06

FreeBSD as a High-Fidelity Audio Server: A Deep Dive

This comprehensive guide details configuring FreeBSD as an audiophile-grade audio server. It covers system and audio subsystem parameter tuning, real-time operation, bit-perfect signal processing, and optimal methods for enabling and configuring the system's graphic equalizer and high-quality audio equalization using FFmpeg filters. A comparison with Linux is included, along with numerous commands and configuration examples to help build a superior audio system. Linux users will also find valuable insights, particularly regarding MPD player and filter configuration.

(m4c.pl)

Hardware Audio Server High-Fidelity Audio

Keeling Labs: Pioneering ML for Complex Energy Control

2025-01-17

Keeling Labs: Pioneering ML for Complex Energy Control

Keeling Labs is a mission-driven startup in Venice, Los Angeles, pioneering machine learning solutions for complex control problems in the energy sector. The team boasts experience from companies like Rivian, DeepMind, and boasts a collaborative in-person work environment emphasizing whiteboarding and brainstorming. If you're passionate about energy trading and machine learning and want to join a growing startup, Keeling Labs might be the perfect fit.

(www.keelinglabs.com)

Startup energy trading

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