San Marino | Kleines Land ganz groß
Ein Stadtstaat mitten in Italien, etwa zehn Kilometer von Rimini entfernt, dessen Fläche gerade einmal ein Zwanzigstel der Fläche von Rom beträgt: Die kleine stolze Republik San Marino thront hoch oben auf einem Felsmassiv.
C'est au quartier Sainte-Thérèse que les affrontements entre forces de l'ordre et individus prêts à en découdre se sont déplacés durant la nuit du lundi 11 au mardi 12 mars 2024. Les pompiers sont intervenus concernant de nombreux départs de feux.Peggy Pinel-Fereol (Martinique 1ère)
Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
Link: engineering.fb.com/2024/03/12/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Marking a major investment in Meta’s AI future, we are announcing two 24k GPU clusters. We are sharing details on the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that help us extr…Mathew Oldham (Meta)
Not just humans: Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills
Link: phys.org/news/2024-03-humans-b…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Bumblebees and chimpanzees can learn skills from their peers so complicated that they could never have mastered them on their own, an ability previously thought to be unique to humans, two studies said on Wednesday.Juliette Collen (Phys.org)
More options for apps distributed in the European Union
Link: developer.apple.com/news/?id=8…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
We’re providing more flexibility for developers who distribute apps in the European Union (EU), including introducing a new way to distribute apps directly from a developer’s website.developer.apple.com
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Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable
Link: arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Active shielding was first proposed in the '60s. We’re finally close to making it work.Ars Technica
Stadt Land Kunst | Aserbaidschan / Normandie / New Mexico
Linda Lorin lädt auf eine Reise an besondere Orte ein, die sich durch ihr künstlerisches, kulturelles oder landschaftliches Erbe auszeichnen.
I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut
Link: protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
I am switching away from SourceHut because it no longer fits my workflow.Protesilaos Stavrou
The Bevy Foundation
Link: bevyengine.org/news/bevy-found…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!bevyengine.org
Create More, Consume Less (2021)
Link: omaritani.com/blog/create-more…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The problem with too much consumption is that it can leave us feeling utterly empty inside. Ironically, it creates something: One big void. A small dose of creativity is good for us.Omar Itani (OMAR ITANI)
Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2403.06634
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's PaLM-2.arXiv.org
Japanese Handsaws: The Maebiki Ooga
Link: covingtonandsons.com/2022/05/2…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A famous blockprint by Hokusai titled “Mount Fuji Seen from the Mountains of Totomi,” showing a crew of sawyers rip-sawing a timber into boards using maebiki ooga saws, one man on top a…Covington & Sons Tools
How Miles Davis hired John Coltrane
Link: honest-broker.com/p/how-miles-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
A fascinating interlude from James Kaplan's new book '3 Shades of Blue'Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker)
Mit offenen Karten - Im Fokus | Wahl in Portugal: politische Verwerfungen
"Mit offenen Karten im Fokus": Täglich drei Minuten Aktuelles und Analysen. Heute blicken wir nach Portugal, wo sich nach der Parlamentswahl ein Richtungswechsel im Süden Europas andeutet.
Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Cosine-similarity is the cosine of the angle between two vectors, or equivalently the dot product between their normalizations.arXiv.org
Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP
Link: copyninja.in/blog/clone_laptop…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
Link: trangram.com
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Trangram is a free one-stop platform to create, animate and share motion graphics.www.trangram.com
A Galaxy-Shaped Rocket Exhaust Spiral
Credit & Copyright: Seung Hye Yang
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240312.ht… #APOD
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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OpenAI – transformer debugger release
Link: github.com/openai/transformer-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Contribute to openai/transformer-debugger development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Breaking Down Tasks
Link: jacobian.org/2024/mar/11/break…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Something missing from this series on estimation, until now, has been a discussion of how to “break down” a project into a well-defined task list. I’d not previously written about this because, to me, it’s largely intuitive.jacobian.org
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Link: bbc.com/news/business-68534703
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.By Theo Leggett (BBC News)
28 Minuten | Doully / Sind die Europäer zu zögerlich gegenüber Putin? (07.03.2024)
Urkomisch und grenzenlos – Wir sind süchtig nach Doullys Humor. / Krieg in der Ukraine: Sind die Europäer zu zögerlich gegenüber Putin? Darüber diskutieren wir heute mit unseren Gästen.
Stadt Land Kunst | Claude Cahuns Jersey / Simbabwe / Jamaika
Linda Lorin lädt auf eine Reise an besondere Orte ein, die sich durch ihr künstlerisches, kulturelles oder landschaftliches Erbe auszeichnen.
Mit offenen Augen | GIF: Gefühle in der Endlosschleife
Es gibt immer mal wieder Situationen, bei denen man am liebsten im Boden versinken möchte. Um diese Emotion humorvoll zu veranschaulichen, gibt es u.a. das Homer-Simpson-Hecken-GIF! Die animierten Bilder sind im Netz allgegenwärtig.
Die Karakal-Katze | Von der Savanne nach Kapstadt
In der südafrikanischen Savanne kämpft eine junge Raubkatze, ein Karakal, ums Überleben. Nach zahlreichen Misserfolgen bei der Jagd und der ständigen Bedrohung durch größere Raubtiere, sucht sie schließlich neue Lebensräume und findet Nahrung und Sic…
Simpson's paradox
Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Charité - Staffel 2 (5/6) | Im Untergrund
Berlin wird immer stärker von den Alliierten bombardiert. Karins Zustand verschlechtert sich, was Artur dazu bewegt, heimlich ihre Verlegung auf die Kinderfachabteilung zu veranlassen. Doch damit wäre ihr Schicksal besiegelt ...
OpenPlotter
Link: openmarine.net/openplotter
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Google's threat model for post-quantum cryptography
Link: bughunters.google.com/blog/510…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Read on to understand how Google currently evaluates the threat landscape related to post-quantum cryptography, and what implications this has for migrating from classical cryptographic algorithms to PQC.bughunters.google.com
Charité - Staffel 2 (4/6) | Verschüttet
Die junge Mutter und Ärztin Anni Waldhausen sorgt sich um ihre Tochter Karin, deren Behinderung immer offensichtlicher wird – im Nationalsozialismus kommt das einem Todesurteil gleich.
Charité - Staffel 2 (3/6) | Letzte Hoffnung
Um den drohenden Wasserkopf der neugeborenen Karin abzuwenden, wird diese unter Geheimhaltung von Sauerbruch und Jung operiert. Aber die Operation ist extrem riskant.
Charité - Staffel 2 (2/6) | Schwere Geburt
Nach einer komplizierten Geburt ist Annis und Arturs Tochter Karin auf der Welt. Ist das arische Vorzeigeglück des Paars nun vollkommen? Die Chirurgie der Charité bekommt derweil qualifizierte Unterstützung vom zwangsrekrutierten elsässischen Arzt Ad…
Occupied Jerusalem, SAN- Following are the latest developments of Operation “al-Aqsa Flood” launched by the Palestinian resistance on October 7, in response to the attacks launched by the Israeli occupation on the war-ravaged Gaza Strip: -Palestinia…Syrian Arab News Agency
Show HN: Async tasks in 350 lines of C
Link: github.com/rkaehn/cr_task.h
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Header-only library for asynchronous tasks in C. Contribute to rkaehn/cr_task.h development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Both in Ukraine and in Gaza the warmongering push seems to come more from the United Kingdom than from the United States.VT Foreign Policy
The Israeli police forces blocked hundreds of worshipers' acces to Aqsa Mosque to perform Tarawih prayers on the first night of the holy month of Ramadan.The Palestinian Information Center
In the first segment, media scholars Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon and Steve Macek come back on the show, this time to discuss their latest edited book, Censorship, Digital Media, and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression.Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
Vegetable stock: my secret lover (2011)
Link: blog.andymatuschak.org/post/80…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
After learning how to season food correctly, homemade stock is the single best thing anyone can do for his cooking. A stock is a liquid extraction of complementary flavors, a broad palette upon which...andymatuschak (Tumblr)
On Friday, March 8, a sea of students flooded the streets of Athens in defense of FREE-PUBLIC Education, against the imposition of Private Universities attempted by the Government of Greece.central wftu (WFTU)
Statement of the International Women's Alliance on International Working Women's DayMench Tilendo (International League of Peoples' Struggle)
In this heartbreaking video, we confront the devastating reality facing children in Gaza as they endure hunger and deprivation, exacerbated by Israeli polici...YouTube
In this video, we offer you a glimpse into life in Deir al-Balah, Palestine, during the first days of Ramadan, amidst ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza ...YouTube
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Arms imports to Europe surged 94 percent in 2019-2023 from 2014-2018, said the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday.global.chinadaily.com.cn
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