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Hush is a Mac menu-bar app that helps focus by generating brown noise or a speech-blocking noise in real time, offline. Right-click to start/stop; left-click for controls (choose noise, adjust volume, and set a low-pass on brown noise). No audio files are used—the sounds are generated on the fly. Notarized, fast, CPU-friendly, and pay-what-you-want; source code is MIT on GitHub. Beta testers influenced features; white/pink noise were dropped. Download and try it.
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The piece argues that the standard cosmological model fails to explain why the universe expands and relies on ad hoc patches (inflation, dark energy) to fit data. In a Copernican spirit, it calls for reexamining fundamental symmetries, suggesting matter may not be comoving at rest. The author describes developing Cosmological Relativity, a general-relativistic framework with matter following preferred worldlines. In this model, expansion arises naturally and unfolds at the same rate as ΛCDM, with the rate fixed by the cosmological constant.
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The SPR stores about 714 million barrels in underground salt caverns along the Gulf Coast. Aboveground tanks would require vast land and are vulnerable to attack; underground options like Red Hill are costly and risk groundwater contamination. The solution: salt caverns formed in Gulf-site salt domes by dissolving rock salt with water; oil is pumped out as injected water displaces it. Benefits include low cost (~$3.50/barrel), security from air attacks, and proximity to refineries. Tradeoffs: water/brine management, cavern monitoring, and ongoing maintenance.
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Data loss is common and unpredictable; the answer isn’t simple mirroring but robust, snapshot-based backups. Take incremental, deduplicated backups with rotation (daily/weekly/monthly) and an appropriate Recovery Point Objective. Use hard links to avoid duplicating unchanged files, transfer via rsync, and apply 3-2-1: three copies on two media with one offsite. Cloud offsite often requires tarballs to preserve metadata and cost control. Prefer proven tools like Borg or Restic, encrypt, checksum, and test restores regularly instead of hoping for the best. Avoid backups at 2–3 a.m.
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CUDA Rust introduces two tracks for writing GPU kernels: SIMT (cuda-oxide) and Tile (cutile-rs). cuda-oxide is a custom rustc backend that compiles #[kernel] code through MIR/Pliron/LLVM to PTX, requiring nightly Rust, CUDA toolkit, Linux, and LLVM. cutile-rs uses CUDA Tile IR for tile-based computation, runs on stable Rust 1.89+, CUDA 13.3, with no nightly or extra LLVM. Both enforce compile-time memory safety—DisjointSlice/launch contracts in cuda-oxide; tensor partitioning in cutile-rs. cutile-rs is public on crates.io and used by HuggingFace Grout; cuda-oxide is early alpha. Interop with C++/Python planned.
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AttaLambda is a small, pure untyped lambda-calculus language where computation is built from unary functions and application. It adds readable syntax, exact rational numbers, and runtime type checks, with IO crossing a host boundary. Example: (def square x = (mult x x)); (print (map square (list 1 2 3 4))) outputs [1, 4, 9, 16]. It is open source under the Apache License 2.0.
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Japan’s book scene is shifting from traditional bookstores to libraries, turning local libraries into travel destinations and community hubs. The 2013 Tsutaya Takeo library—featuring a Starbucks inside and a bookstore—drew visitors from far away and helped reshape the town. Smaller libraries like Nankan in Kumamoto and Yahiko in Niigata illustrate that a library’s value lies in its curated shelves and soft power, not architecture. The author argues Japan’s depth is in these local places, inviting travelers to discover the country via its libraries rather than famous sites.
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NET 11 delivers broad performance gains across JIT, runtime, and libraries. The JIT adds guarded devirtualization, stronger escape analysis, range analysis, and loop cloning, reducing allocations and enabling more inlining. Bounds checks are eliminated more aggressively, and many patterns now compute in a single path. Runtime async shifts the async state machine lowering from the C# compiler into the runtime (opt-in), cutting allocations and code size while preserving compatibility. Vectorization, SIMD intrinsics, and AVX/SVE improvements boost throughput. Startup, networking, and IO paths also see targeted reductions. Hundreds of micro-optimizations raise performance by notable margins.
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WSJ 404 page: the requested page isn’t found; instructions to verify the URL and email [email protected]. The page also lists popular articles and latest podcasts.
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Jevlike is a one-pass model that scores N text options for a given context. Each option is a query vector; attention over the context yields a score, and softmax converts scores to probabilities. Data format uses one JSONL line: {context, options, label}. The repo provides demos (doom, chess) and Wikispeedia, plus training/eval/predict pipelines and optional Hugging Face encoder support. It can train from synthetic data and evaluate with a frozen encoder. Reported results: ~98% accuracy on synthetic menus; ~26% on Wikispeedia with Qwen encoder. Limitations: requires the full option list; it's a research starter (MIT).
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Linum demonstrates 3.6× faster training of text-to-image models by moving from latent-diffusion to pixel-space with JiT and introducing JiT-DDT. The encoder predicts a low-resolution 64×64 plan and the decoder generates 512×512 images from that, using x-prediction instead of v-prediction to overcome the curse of dimensionality and push compression into the DiT. The approach yields 4× more pixels at similar token budgets, with 3.6× fewer GPU-hours. They apply PixelREPA, DINO-based perceptual losses, a single-stream DiT, and noise-schedule tweaks, achieving higher fidelity than Linum v2 while training faster.
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Dramame is cloud software to manage an organization’s dramas (projects/workflows), aiming to save developer hours and reduce toil. It offers a free tier for up to 3 projects and three paid plans—Basic, Standard, and Premium (with features like SSO via SAML, SCIM provisioning, environments on demand, and dedicated support). Integrations include GitHub, Zapier, Stripe, PagerDuty, Slack, and Vercel. Backed by YC, HIPAA-ready, SOC 2 Type II, and thousands of onboarded teams with positive testimonials.
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Langdock, a Berlin-founded AI startup, moved its legal parent from the US to Germany, reorganizing as a Societas Europaea to become a European hyperscaler. The 2026 restructuring, costing several million euros, places governance under EU law and clarifies data sovereignty while keeping customer data in Europe. Serving about 13,000 organizations with an enterprise AI platform, it plans three new services, a German data center, and growth toward sovereign AI, though it trails US giants in scale. Revenue run rate around $50 million by Aug 2026.
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Megi Endeladze, owner of Penny's Coffee Shop in Buffalo, used ChatGPT to create a menu poster due to a missing chalkboard designer and time constraints. She printed it for about $150 and framed it for $200. After posting to Instagram, she faced angry DMs, threats, and follower loss as customers accused her of AI use. She apologized and said the shop would not use AI for menu art, urging kindness. The incident reflects a broader backlash against AI in small businesses, with other delis and bakeries facing similar vitriol.
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Rohan Bansal shows a 4B open‑weight model can beat Postgres’ default query plans for analytics using off‑policy distillation and agentic RL. Starting from a distilled Qwen 4B, a qo‑agent emits PlanAction hints to guide plans and benchmarks candidates vs defaults on a calibrated Postgres setup, with LoRA finetuning and anchored GRPO rewards. On 113 JOB queries, latency dropped 44.7%; after RL with 1,200 updates, a 1.81x geometric mean speedup and 1.81x total workload speedup were achieved. Learned tactics include Leading trees and nested loops with index scans. Cost about $1,200. Conclusion: open‑weights plus RL can outperform Postgres on analytics tasks.
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Chuck Greenman reports two GitHub UI issues: (1) PR counts in the repository tab overcount, often after merges, though the correct number is visible on the page; (2) while setting up Sentry, navigating to the project on the second page of org memberships is hampered by Chrome’s pop-up address-bar restriction, requiring a JavaScript-based workaround. He seeks insight and notes his long GitHub use and social handles.
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