#F3 #file-format discussion: “they’ve addressed a lot of the shortcomings of Parquet which is very exciting” including Wes McKinney #toread
discussion of #RISC-V #asm conditional moves and the 64-bit #ARM CSEL instruction
#RISC-V #asm conditional moves and the 64-bit #ARM CSEL instruction #toread
discussion of “SolveIt – an antidote to #AI fatigue” “a fundamental rethinking of the human-AI relationship. (...) a better more sustainable approach to AI-assisted development”
the #history of yogh in #palaeography
snake-oil? #AI #security “Password managers are broken. We changed the game with secure one-click sharing, instant revocation, and powerful agentic integrations. (...) Multi is the only AI agent that can securely access your own accounts when asked, just by storing them in Multifactor. Strong access controls ensure you remain in control throughout the process.”
#introduction #tutorial to #Cedarling (in Wasm) in #JS. “To perform an authorization check, follow these steps:” #security #toread
explanation of the #membrane pattern in JS
“Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Automated Reverse Engineering of Legacy Software Systems” #paper by Kelsi Davis on #AI #reverse-engineering: “we recreated a bootable prototype of Apple System 7.1 [on amd64?] from binary analysis in just 3 days” #toread
discussion of #Paper2Agent turning a paper into a chatbot with #AI #toread
"Remyx": “Go from idea to deployment in minutes, not weeks. Learn what works and why, turning every launch into institutional knowledge. (...) DevOps operationalizes code. MLOps operationalizes data. ExperimentOps operationalizes knowledge, closing the loop between experimentation and AI that delivers on business goals. (...) Capture and surface the insights that make AI experiments repeatable, trustworthy, and ready for production.” #AI
#Paper2Agent #PDF #paper turning a paper into a chatbot with #AI #toread: “an automated framework that converts research papers into AI agents. Paper2Agent transforms research output from passive artifacts into active systems that can accelerate downstream use, adoption, and discovery”
"Zutty" #terminal emulator FAQ #documentation: “Zutty has a number of interesting properties. It is a terminal with accurate VT support, high performance, low latency, a small codebase and is potentially compatible with a wide array of contemporary graphics hardware. This combination is, as far as I am aware, a unique proposition.”
“Zero-cost Unicode teletype (...) What really sets #Zutty apart is its radically simple, yet extremely efficient rendering implementation, coupled with a sufficiently complete feature set to make it useful for a wide range of users. Zutty offers high throughput with low latency, and strives to conform to relevant (published or de-facto) standards.
Zutty is written in straightforward C++ and only relies on OpenGL ES 3.1 for rendering” #erminal emulator
#Zutty Git repository
#Eliezer’s older book, originally a bunch of OvercomingBias/LessWrong posts
#PDF #ebook of "The Epidemics of the Middle Ages", by J.F.C. Hecker, translated by B.G. Babington, published by the Sydenham Society #history #medicine
“Perhaps the simplest method of creating low-cost shared housing is to allow unrelated individuals to share a house in the same way that relatives are allowed to share a house. (...) Iowa, Oregon, and Colorado all passed bipartisan legislation to strike down local codes that prohibit house-sharing (in 2017, 2021, and 2024, respectively).” #USA #politics #economics #housing #roommates #SROs
Pew Charitable Trust: “How States and Cities Decimated Americans’ Lowest-Cost #Housing Option: The intertwined history of single-room occupancy and #homelessness in the U.S.” #USA #politics #history #economics #roommates #SROs #toread
“The point of this module is specific to German internet politics. It can be considered an ode to the German Minister for Family Affairs, Ursula von der #Leyen.
Among German geeks, she is known as "Zensursula", a combination of “Zensur” (German for “#censorship”) and “Ursula”. She has been pushing for legislation to force ISPs to censor the web much in the same way that China does.” #Germany #politics #human-rights (note that von der Leyen is currently the president of the #EU)
“For a future with #privacy, not mass #surveillance, #Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in the #Chat-Control proposal” #politics #EU #human-rights #PDF
#video #toread from three years ago about #Ukraine salvaging Russian tank machine guns for use as #weaponry
#Xiaomanyc #humor #video in South #Korea where the people at a restaurant make joking-not-joking remarks about how he’s a spy for North Korea because he’s speaking North Korean dialect
#RFU #video from today on #Ukraine news on the front between Dolyna and Lyman; Ukraine is bombing Russian pontoon bridges with GBU39 #weaponry despite GPS jamming; artillery fire suppressed bridge replacement. FPV #drones are playing a supporting role.
#video about #Argentina by Marcos Wolf, who’d been living in Ontario, Canada all his life until he came to stay in a hostel and AirBnB and visit his grandparents in Caseros for six months a year ago (although he’d been there 15 years before) #formina
one-minute demo #video of "Sora 2" #OpenAI video generation #AI model #neural-networks
#video exploring #OpenAI’s #Sora-3 video generation #AI model for half an hour, comparing it to Kling 2.5 (which seems comparable), Hailuo O2, and the noticeably worse Veo3 (Google’s). Their “Cameo” feature has an interesting anti-deepfakes feature for iOS. #neural-networks
#video #toread about how not to get killed by #drones #weaponry: umbrellas, tunnels, moving in the daytime, moving in thunderstorms, etc.
#Palantir and #Anduril are collaborating to build the communications platform "NGC2" for the #USA military, but it currently has serious flaws in early testing
“some AIs seem to spontaneously produce personas that claim to be autonomous, self-aware entities and attempt to preserve their own lives. These personas commonly name themselves “Nova.”” #AI
#video on #asm programming for #UEFI, showing how to call ConOut, WaitForEvent, and GetTime UEFI subroutines from assembly, but using Microsoft MASM and the VC++ linker, gag. He tests his hello-world image in QEMU by writing it to a flash drive with a GUID partition table (not an MBR) with an EFI system partition. Sponsored by a mini-PC vendor. Also covers the EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_PROTOCOL (GOP) which contains QueryMode, SetMode, and Blt. Also how to start up additional processors (he’s on a 12-core amd64 machine) via EFI_MP_SERVICES_PROTOCOL. But UEFI doesn’t support keyup events! Only keydown events! So it sucks for his Zaxxon reimplementation. The EFI_SIMPLE_POINTER_PROTOCOL for talking to the mouse might be okay, although it only supports two buttons (gag).
"#Trump’s recent order calls for the National Guard to have a standing force ready for “quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety.”” “ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA” is the name of the EO. “ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.” But only 600 soldiers? “Just this week, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s federalization and deployment of the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Governor Newsom was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the president from using the military for domestic policing unless he first invokes the Insurrection Act. (...) But if the courts do intervene, don’t expect Trump to give up on the idea. The most likely scenario is a similar project, but staffed with #ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, or DHS officers instead.” #USA #politics #human-rights
Journalist Jemima Kelly from the Financial Times somehow ended up at a party in Surrey at Norman McKenzie-Richmond’s house with #Moldbug. #politics #USA #UK #toread