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IDEcline: How the most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens
7 hours ago
- The shift from IDEs being central to software development to becoming second-class citizens in the face of AI-driven orchestration.
- Three waves of AI coding tools: Wave 1 (AI as IDE feature), Wave 2 (AI in terminal), Wave 3 (multi-agent desktop control planes).
- Agent control planes coordinate tasks, tools, permissions, context, and review, surpassing IDE capabilities.
- IDEs are not disappearing but are being repositioned as verification and debugging tools.
- The competitive landscape is shifting, with IDE-first companies facing pressure and tech giants like Microsoft and Google adapting strategies.
- Potential counterarguments include deep IDE-agent integration, fragmentation of attention, and security constraints.
- The future battleground is about trust, auditing, and verification in codebases.
US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses
2 hours ago
- US corporate leaders attribute layoffs to AI increasing efficiency, replacing human jobs.
- Economists and analysts are skeptical, citing tariffs, pandemic overhiring, and profit maximization as real reasons.
- The term 'AI-washing' describes companies using AI as a scapegoat for layoffs.
- In 2025, AI was cited for over 54,000 layoffs, with Amazon cutting 30,000 jobs.
- Amazon and HP executives claim AI boosts productivity, justifying workforce reductions.
- Forrester reports only 6% of US jobs will be automated by 2030, questioning AI's role in layoffs.
- Experts warn against premature layoffs based on AI's unproven capabilities in most occupations.
- CEOs may blame AI to avoid backlash over tariffs or pandemic-era overhiring.
- Salesforce's CEO reduced staff citing AI agents, but researchers urge scrutiny of such claims.
- Amazon and Duolingo later contradicted initial AI-driven layoff narratives, citing culture or contractor adjustments.
- A laid-off Amazon employee believes cost-cutting, not AI, was the real reason for her termination.
Another GitHub outage in the same day
2 hours ago
- Subscribe to updates for Incident with Issues, Actions, and Git Operations via email and/or text message.
- Receive email notifications when incidents are updated.
- Receive text message notifications when GitHub creates or resolves an incident.
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What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?
4 days ago
- The text discusses the entropy of the probability distribution derived from the prime factorization of a random integer.
- It simplifies the problem by considering squarefree integers, linking their prime factor sizes to cycle lengths in random permutations.
- The entropy calculation involves summing contributions from each cycle, leading to an estimated mean entropy of 1.
- Questions are raised about the behavior of entropy and perplexity, suggesting deeper connections to number theory.
- References to Terry Tao's blog posts and a paper by Kontoyiannis are provided for further reading.
Eight more months of agents
a day ago
- The author reflects on the rapid evolution of LLM-assisted programming over the past year, noting significant improvements in model capabilities, particularly in coding tasks.
- Agent harnesses have seen little improvement, with some capabilities from six months ago still unmatched by current popular agents.
- Public benchmarks for models are considered unreliable due to gaming; qualitative improvements in coding models are highlighted as significant economic signals.
- The shift in the author's coding time allocation from writing to reading code is noted, with a current ratio of 95-5 in favor of reading.
- The history and current state of IDEs are discussed, with the author moving away from IDEs back to Vi, despite earlier predictions about the dominance of IDEs with LLM-assisted features.
- The importance of using the best models (like Opus or GPT-7.9) is emphasized, despite the cost, to truly understand their capabilities.
- The challenges of working with agents, including the need for fresh VMs to avoid sandbox limitations, are mentioned.
- The author is building exe.dev to address the need for unconstrained agents in easily accessible VMs.
- The joy and increased productivity brought by agents in programming are contrasted with broader societal fears about AI.
- A programming philosophy is introduced: the best software for an agent is what's best for a programmer, reversing traditional product development wisdom.
- The author's experience with Stripe Sigma illustrates how agents can outperform traditional products by enabling custom solutions with minimal input.
Ultrarunners in Secondhand Trainers
4 hours ago
- Haja Nirina, a cycle rickshaw driver in Antsirabe, Madagascar, has honed his athletic prowess and business over five years.
- Antsirabe has over 4,000 rickshaws for 265,000 people, with Nirina making 10-15 trips daily, earning 10,000-15,000 ariary.
- Nirina owns his rickshaw, avoiding rental fees, thanks to a microcredit program by Crown Athletics Club.
- Crown Athletics Club started after a 1997 rickshaw race and now supports athletes with microcredit and training.
- Yann Mayette, club president, motivates athletes to compete internationally, organizing local races and expeditions.
- Nirina and fellow runner Mamie Andrianirina competed in the Mascareignes race in Réunion, finishing second and third.
- Despite inadequate equipment, the club aims to compete internationally, but funding remains a challenge.
- Nirina and his peers, once mocked as rickshaw drivers, are now among Madagascar's best athletes.
Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy
3 hours ago
- Eddie Bauer, a 106-year-old outdoor apparel retailer, has declared bankruptcy for the third time.
- The company operates around 180 stores in the U.S. and Canada, which will continue serving customers while some stores begin winding down.
- E-commerce and wholesale operations remain unaffected as they are operated separately.
- The bankruptcy does not impact Eddie Bauer stores outside the U.S. and Canada.
- CEO Marc Rosen of Catalyst Brands, the licensee for Eddie Bauer in the U.S. and Canada, stated the restructuring aims to optimize stakeholder value and ensure profitability.
- Challenges include dwindling sales, supply-chain issues, and 'ongoing tariff uncertainty.'
- Despite improvements in product development and marketing, changes couldn't address long-standing challenges quickly enough.
- Founded in 1920 as a Seattle fishing shop, Eddie Bauer gained fame for military outerwear during World War I and outfitting the first American to climb Mount Everest in 1963.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
3 hours ago
- The Journal relies on reader support to stay open.
- It provides independent, unbiased news that tells the truth.
- Advertising revenue is insufficient this year to support their mission.
- Readers are encouraged to contribute to sustain accurate and meaningful journalism.
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
3 hours ago
- Seamus Culleton, an Irish man, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.
- Culleton, married to a US citizen and running a plastering business in Boston, was arrested in a random immigration sweep in September 2025.
- He is currently held in a squalid detention center in El Paso, Texas, sharing a cell with over 70 men, describing conditions as 'like a concentration camp, absolute hell'.
- Culleton refused to sign deportation documents, contesting his arrest on grounds of his marriage to a US citizen and valid work permit.
- A judge approved his release on bond, but ICE continued to detain him, allegedly based on falsified documents claiming he agreed to deportation.
- Culleton's case highlights systemic issues within ICE, including ineptitude and capriciousness, as noted by his lawyer.
- His wife, Tiffany Smyth, and family in Ireland report severe physical and mental health deterioration due to detention conditions.
- The Irish government noted a 330% increase in Irish citizens seeking consular assistance for US deportation cases from 2024 to 2025.
The Markets of Old London
3 hours ago
- Tickets available for a walking tour of Spitalfields this Saturday.
- Discovery of a rare photograph of Clare Market, demolished in 1905, among glass slides at the Bishopsgate Institute.
- Overview of London's historic markets: some still operating, others relocated or vanished.
- Author's personal reflections on the cultural and social significance of markets worldwide.
- Historical photographs showcase the vibrant life and hierarchy within London's old markets.
- Comments from readers sharing their own memories and connections to London's markets.
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
4 hours ago
- Audio enhancement in Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulators reduces aliasing and noise.
- Nearest neighbor interpolation in GBA hardware causes noticeable audio aliasing.
- Alternative approaches like MP2K HQ exist but are limited to specific games.
- Enhanced interpolation resamples audio channels directly to the output sample rate.
- PCM channel sample rates are calculated using GBA timer settings.
- Resampling algorithms include cubic Hermite and windowed sinc interpolation.
- Cubic Hermite is better for upsampling, while sinc reduces aliasing but may muffle sound.
- PSG channels require separate resampling and may need low-pass filtering.
- Dynamic low-pass filtering of PSG output can improve sound quality.
- Performance impact is significant due to high-quality resampling and filtering.
Recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a reduced risk of dementia
5 hours ago
- Two doses of the recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) are associated with a 51% lower risk of dementia in adults aged 65 and older.
- The study involved 65,800 RZV-vaccinated individuals and 263,200 unvaccinated matches, showing consistent risk reduction across age and racial/ethnic groups.
- Females exhibited a stronger risk reduction compared to males.
- After accounting for healthy vaccinee bias, RZV vaccination still showed a statistically significant lower risk of dementia.
- The study was conducted using Kaiser Permanente Southern California data, with findings presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2025.
- The research was funded by GSK, with several authors declaring competing interests related to pharmaceutical funding.
Ice Kid Prisons
4 hours ago
- Ariana Velasquez, 14, and her mother were detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas for 45 days, causing Ariana to fall behind in school and miss her siblings.
- Dilley, run by CoreCivic, reopened under Trump's administration to detain families together, but conditions are harsh, with reports of poor medical care, bad food, and mental distress among children.
- Children at Dilley, including 9-year-old Susej Fernández and 15-year-old Alexander Perez, describe boredom, inadequate education, and mistreatment by staff.
- Parents and children report insufficient medical care, with delays and dismissals for serious conditions, including a baby hospitalized for COVID-19 and RSV.
- ICE released some detainees unexpectedly, including Ariana and her mother, but many families remain detained, with some deported or still awaiting resolution.
- The emotional and psychological toll on detained children is severe, with reports of self-harm, suicide ideation, and lasting trauma.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
4 hours ago
- Hard-braking events (HBEs) are positively associated with road segment crash rates.
- HBEs can serve as leading measures for road safety assessment, unlike traditional lagging crash data.
- Analysis shows roads with higher HBE rates have significantly higher crash risks.
- HBEs provide a denser data signal compared to sparse crash reports, enabling network-wide analysis.
- Statistical validation using negative binomial regression confirms the correlation between HBEs and crash rates.
- Infrastructure elements like ramps increase crash risk, as indicated by HBE data.
- A case study on a California freeway merge segment demonstrated HBEs' effectiveness in identifying high-risk areas.
- Google is integrating HBE data into its Roads Management Insights for real-world safety applications.
- Future work includes refining HBE signals and using them for targeted infrastructure interventions.
What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end
2 days ago
- Debate over whether sponges or comb jellies were the first animal lineage has persisted for nearly 20 years.
- Initial evidence favored sponges due to their simplicity, but a 2008 genomic study suggested comb jellies might be first.
- The debate has led to entrenched positions, with some researchers advocating for a more collaborative approach.
- Sponges lack specialized tissues like nerves and muscles, traits thought to have evolved later, supporting their early emergence.
- Comb jellies possess complex features like nerves and muscles, raising questions about how complexity evolved if they came first.
- The challenge lies in distinguishing genetic signals from ancient evolutionary events, complicated by rapid evolutionary changes.
- Different scientific disciplines tend to favor different hypotheses, with zoologists often supporting sponges and genomicists favoring comb jellies.
- Researchers emphasize the need for innovative approaches to resolve the debate and understand early animal evolution.
Running Lua on a tiny console from 2001
2 days ago
- The Pokemon Mini is a small, underpowered console released in 2001 with 4KB of RAM and a black-and-white screen.
- The homebrew community for the Pokemon Mini is active, with emulators, a C SDK, and assemblers/linkers available.
- The author's goal was to run Lua code on the Pokemon Mini by compiling Lua to C using Nelua.
- Initial attempts failed due to syntax errors from C99 to C89 incompatibility with the Pokemon Mini SDK.
- A C99 to C89 converter was found, but manual adjustments and a custom PowerShell script were needed for successful compilation.
- Further adjustments were required to correctly place the 'NINTENDO' string and reserve memory for hardware registers.
- Helper functions for hardware registers (e.g., set_pixel, get_pixel) were written to facilitate Lua usage.
- The final library works on both emulators and physical devices, and the author plans to use it for game development.
How a Cat Debugged Stable Diffusion (2023)
a day ago
- The author encountered a loud beeping issue while running Stable Diffusion on their computer.
- Initial troubleshooting suggested potential causes like coil whine, insufficient machine power, overheating, or fan issues.
- The author's cat, Ollie, identified the actual source of the noise—the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) was being overdrawn.
- The UPS was rated for 360 watts, while the computer's power supply maxed out at 750 watts, causing the UPS to beep loudly under the load.
- The solution was upgrading to a higher-capacity UPS, resolving the issue.
- The story humorously concludes that cats might be better at debugging than humans and AI.
Never Work with Bad People
7 hours ago
- Stephen Cloobeck advises avoiding the 'zip code of bad people' to achieve success.
- Bad people can be charming but are often pathological liars with harmful intentions.
- Short alliances with bad people can be damaging despite initial temptations.
- Normal people have responsibilities like jobs and families, whereas bad people dedicate time to destructive behaviors.
- Bad people lie blatantly and are afraid of losing in honest competition.
- The best strategy against bad people is not to engage in their games.
Zero crashes, zero compromises: inside the HAProxy security audit
5 hours ago
- Almond ITSEF audit validates HAProxy's architectural resilience and secure configuration.
- HAProxy 3.2.5 deemed mature and secure after extensive testing, including 25 days of fuzzing with zero crashes.
- Key architectural strengths include process isolation and custom memory management for enhanced security and performance.
- Audit highlights the importance of shared responsibility in secure configuration, emphasizing operational best practices.
- Recommendations include adopting a positive security model for ACLs, securing the Stats page, and upgrading to HAProxy 3.2+.
- HAProxy's commitment to transparency, peer review, and continuous improvement underpins its reliability and trustworthiness.
It's not you; GitHub is down again
5 hours ago
- Subscribe to updates for delayed notifications via email and/or text message.
- Email notifications are sent when incidents are updated.
- Text message notifications are sent when GitHub creates or resolves an incident.
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IDEcline: How the most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens
7 hours ago
- The shift from IDEs being central to software development to becoming second-class citizens in the face of AI-driven orchestration.
- Three waves of AI coding tools: Wave 1 (AI as IDE feature), Wave 2 (AI in terminal), Wave 3 (multi-agent desktop control planes).
- Agent control planes coordinate tasks, tools, permissions, context, and review, surpassing IDE capabilities.
- IDEs are not disappearing but are being repositioned as verification and debugging tools.
- The competitive landscape is shifting, with IDE-first companies facing pressure and tech giants like Microsoft and Google adapting strategies.
- Potential counterarguments include deep IDE-agent integration, fragmentation of attention, and security constraints.
- The future battleground is about trust, auditing, and verification in codebases.
US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses
2 hours ago
- US corporate leaders attribute layoffs to AI increasing efficiency, replacing human jobs.
- Economists and analysts are skeptical, citing tariffs, pandemic overhiring, and profit maximization as real reasons.
- The term 'AI-washing' describes companies using AI as a scapegoat for layoffs.
- In 2025, AI was cited for over 54,000 layoffs, with Amazon cutting 30,000 jobs.
- Amazon and HP executives claim AI boosts productivity, justifying workforce reductions.
- Forrester reports only 6% of US jobs will be automated by 2030, questioning AI's role in layoffs.
- Experts warn against premature layoffs based on AI's unproven capabilities in most occupations.
- CEOs may blame AI to avoid backlash over tariffs or pandemic-era overhiring.
- Salesforce's CEO reduced staff citing AI agents, but researchers urge scrutiny of such claims.
- Amazon and Duolingo later contradicted initial AI-driven layoff narratives, citing culture or contractor adjustments.
- A laid-off Amazon employee believes cost-cutting, not AI, was the real reason for her termination.
Another GitHub outage in the same day
2 hours ago
- Subscribe to updates for Incident with Issues, Actions, and Git Operations via email and/or text message.
- Receive email notifications when incidents are updated.
- Receive text message notifications when GitHub creates or resolves an incident.
- Verify your number to receive SMS updates.
- Click ‘Subscribe’ to proceed with just email notifications.
What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?
4 days ago
- The text discusses the entropy of the probability distribution derived from the prime factorization of a random integer.
- It simplifies the problem by considering squarefree integers, linking their prime factor sizes to cycle lengths in random permutations.
- The entropy calculation involves summing contributions from each cycle, leading to an estimated mean entropy of 1.
- Questions are raised about the behavior of entropy and perplexity, suggesting deeper connections to number theory.
- References to Terry Tao's blog posts and a paper by Kontoyiannis are provided for further reading.
Eight more months of agents
a day ago
- The author reflects on the rapid evolution of LLM-assisted programming over the past year, noting significant improvements in model capabilities, particularly in coding tasks.
- Agent harnesses have seen little improvement, with some capabilities from six months ago still unmatched by current popular agents.
- Public benchmarks for models are considered unreliable due to gaming; qualitative improvements in coding models are highlighted as significant economic signals.
- The shift in the author's coding time allocation from writing to reading code is noted, with a current ratio of 95-5 in favor of reading.
- The history and current state of IDEs are discussed, with the author moving away from IDEs back to Vi, despite earlier predictions about the dominance of IDEs with LLM-assisted features.
- The importance of using the best models (like Opus or GPT-7.9) is emphasized, despite the cost, to truly understand their capabilities.
- The challenges of working with agents, including the need for fresh VMs to avoid sandbox limitations, are mentioned.
- The author is building exe.dev to address the need for unconstrained agents in easily accessible VMs.
- The joy and increased productivity brought by agents in programming are contrasted with broader societal fears about AI.
- A programming philosophy is introduced: the best software for an agent is what's best for a programmer, reversing traditional product development wisdom.
- The author's experience with Stripe Sigma illustrates how agents can outperform traditional products by enabling custom solutions with minimal input.
Ultrarunners in Secondhand Trainers
4 hours ago
- Haja Nirina, a cycle rickshaw driver in Antsirabe, Madagascar, has honed his athletic prowess and business over five years.
- Antsirabe has over 4,000 rickshaws for 265,000 people, with Nirina making 10-15 trips daily, earning 10,000-15,000 ariary.
- Nirina owns his rickshaw, avoiding rental fees, thanks to a microcredit program by Crown Athletics Club.
- Crown Athletics Club started after a 1997 rickshaw race and now supports athletes with microcredit and training.
- Yann Mayette, club president, motivates athletes to compete internationally, organizing local races and expeditions.
- Nirina and fellow runner Mamie Andrianirina competed in the Mascareignes race in Réunion, finishing second and third.
- Despite inadequate equipment, the club aims to compete internationally, but funding remains a challenge.
- Nirina and his peers, once mocked as rickshaw drivers, are now among Madagascar's best athletes.
Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy
3 hours ago
- Eddie Bauer, a 106-year-old outdoor apparel retailer, has declared bankruptcy for the third time.
- The company operates around 180 stores in the U.S. and Canada, which will continue serving customers while some stores begin winding down.
- E-commerce and wholesale operations remain unaffected as they are operated separately.
- The bankruptcy does not impact Eddie Bauer stores outside the U.S. and Canada.
- CEO Marc Rosen of Catalyst Brands, the licensee for Eddie Bauer in the U.S. and Canada, stated the restructuring aims to optimize stakeholder value and ensure profitability.
- Challenges include dwindling sales, supply-chain issues, and 'ongoing tariff uncertainty.'
- Despite improvements in product development and marketing, changes couldn't address long-standing challenges quickly enough.
- Founded in 1920 as a Seattle fishing shop, Eddie Bauer gained fame for military outerwear during World War I and outfitting the first American to climb Mount Everest in 1963.
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
3 hours ago
- The Journal relies on reader support to stay open.
- It provides independent, unbiased news that tells the truth.
- Advertising revenue is insufficient this year to support their mission.
- Readers are encouraged to contribute to sustain accurate and meaningful journalism.
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
3 hours ago
- Seamus Culleton, an Irish man, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.
- Culleton, married to a US citizen and running a plastering business in Boston, was arrested in a random immigration sweep in September 2025.
- He is currently held in a squalid detention center in El Paso, Texas, sharing a cell with over 70 men, describing conditions as 'like a concentration camp, absolute hell'.
- Culleton refused to sign deportation documents, contesting his arrest on grounds of his marriage to a US citizen and valid work permit.
- A judge approved his release on bond, but ICE continued to detain him, allegedly based on falsified documents claiming he agreed to deportation.
- Culleton's case highlights systemic issues within ICE, including ineptitude and capriciousness, as noted by his lawyer.
- His wife, Tiffany Smyth, and family in Ireland report severe physical and mental health deterioration due to detention conditions.
- The Irish government noted a 330% increase in Irish citizens seeking consular assistance for US deportation cases from 2024 to 2025.
The Markets of Old London
3 hours ago
- Tickets available for a walking tour of Spitalfields this Saturday.
- Discovery of a rare photograph of Clare Market, demolished in 1905, among glass slides at the Bishopsgate Institute.
- Overview of London's historic markets: some still operating, others relocated or vanished.
- Author's personal reflections on the cultural and social significance of markets worldwide.
- Historical photographs showcase the vibrant life and hierarchy within London's old markets.
- Comments from readers sharing their own memories and connections to London's markets.
Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
4 hours ago
- Audio enhancement in Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulators reduces aliasing and noise.
- Nearest neighbor interpolation in GBA hardware causes noticeable audio aliasing.
- Alternative approaches like MP2K HQ exist but are limited to specific games.
- Enhanced interpolation resamples audio channels directly to the output sample rate.
- PCM channel sample rates are calculated using GBA timer settings.
- Resampling algorithms include cubic Hermite and windowed sinc interpolation.
- Cubic Hermite is better for upsampling, while sinc reduces aliasing but may muffle sound.
- PSG channels require separate resampling and may need low-pass filtering.
- Dynamic low-pass filtering of PSG output can improve sound quality.
- Performance impact is significant due to high-quality resampling and filtering.
Recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a reduced risk of dementia
5 hours ago
- Two doses of the recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) are associated with a 51% lower risk of dementia in adults aged 65 and older.
- The study involved 65,800 RZV-vaccinated individuals and 263,200 unvaccinated matches, showing consistent risk reduction across age and racial/ethnic groups.
- Females exhibited a stronger risk reduction compared to males.
- After accounting for healthy vaccinee bias, RZV vaccination still showed a statistically significant lower risk of dementia.
- The study was conducted using Kaiser Permanente Southern California data, with findings presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2025.
- The research was funded by GSK, with several authors declaring competing interests related to pharmaceutical funding.
Ice Kid Prisons
4 hours ago
- Ariana Velasquez, 14, and her mother were detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas for 45 days, causing Ariana to fall behind in school and miss her siblings.
- Dilley, run by CoreCivic, reopened under Trump's administration to detain families together, but conditions are harsh, with reports of poor medical care, bad food, and mental distress among children.
- Children at Dilley, including 9-year-old Susej Fernández and 15-year-old Alexander Perez, describe boredom, inadequate education, and mistreatment by staff.
- Parents and children report insufficient medical care, with delays and dismissals for serious conditions, including a baby hospitalized for COVID-19 and RSV.
- ICE released some detainees unexpectedly, including Ariana and her mother, but many families remain detained, with some deported or still awaiting resolution.
- The emotional and psychological toll on detained children is severe, with reports of self-harm, suicide ideation, and lasting trauma.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
4 hours ago
- Hard-braking events (HBEs) are positively associated with road segment crash rates.
- HBEs can serve as leading measures for road safety assessment, unlike traditional lagging crash data.
- Analysis shows roads with higher HBE rates have significantly higher crash risks.
- HBEs provide a denser data signal compared to sparse crash reports, enabling network-wide analysis.
- Statistical validation using negative binomial regression confirms the correlation between HBEs and crash rates.
- Infrastructure elements like ramps increase crash risk, as indicated by HBE data.
- A case study on a California freeway merge segment demonstrated HBEs' effectiveness in identifying high-risk areas.
- Google is integrating HBE data into its Roads Management Insights for real-world safety applications.
- Future work includes refining HBE signals and using them for targeted infrastructure interventions.
What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end
2 days ago
- Debate over whether sponges or comb jellies were the first animal lineage has persisted for nearly 20 years.
- Initial evidence favored sponges due to their simplicity, but a 2008 genomic study suggested comb jellies might be first.
- The debate has led to entrenched positions, with some researchers advocating for a more collaborative approach.
- Sponges lack specialized tissues like nerves and muscles, traits thought to have evolved later, supporting their early emergence.
- Comb jellies possess complex features like nerves and muscles, raising questions about how complexity evolved if they came first.
- The challenge lies in distinguishing genetic signals from ancient evolutionary events, complicated by rapid evolutionary changes.
- Different scientific disciplines tend to favor different hypotheses, with zoologists often supporting sponges and genomicists favoring comb jellies.
- Researchers emphasize the need for innovative approaches to resolve the debate and understand early animal evolution.
Running Lua on a tiny console from 2001
2 days ago
- The Pokemon Mini is a small, underpowered console released in 2001 with 4KB of RAM and a black-and-white screen.
- The homebrew community for the Pokemon Mini is active, with emulators, a C SDK, and assemblers/linkers available.
- The author's goal was to run Lua code on the Pokemon Mini by compiling Lua to C using Nelua.
- Initial attempts failed due to syntax errors from C99 to C89 incompatibility with the Pokemon Mini SDK.
- A C99 to C89 converter was found, but manual adjustments and a custom PowerShell script were needed for successful compilation.
- Further adjustments were required to correctly place the 'NINTENDO' string and reserve memory for hardware registers.
- Helper functions for hardware registers (e.g., set_pixel, get_pixel) were written to facilitate Lua usage.
- The final library works on both emulators and physical devices, and the author plans to use it for game development.
How a Cat Debugged Stable Diffusion (2023)
a day ago
- The author encountered a loud beeping issue while running Stable Diffusion on their computer.
- Initial troubleshooting suggested potential causes like coil whine, insufficient machine power, overheating, or fan issues.
- The author's cat, Ollie, identified the actual source of the noise—the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) was being overdrawn.
- The UPS was rated for 360 watts, while the computer's power supply maxed out at 750 watts, causing the UPS to beep loudly under the load.
- The solution was upgrading to a higher-capacity UPS, resolving the issue.
- The story humorously concludes that cats might be better at debugging than humans and AI.
Never Work with Bad People
7 hours ago
- Stephen Cloobeck advises avoiding the 'zip code of bad people' to achieve success.
- Bad people can be charming but are often pathological liars with harmful intentions.
- Short alliances with bad people can be damaging despite initial temptations.
- Normal people have responsibilities like jobs and families, whereas bad people dedicate time to destructive behaviors.
- Bad people lie blatantly and are afraid of losing in honest competition.
- The best strategy against bad people is not to engage in their games.
Zero crashes, zero compromises: inside the HAProxy security audit
5 hours ago
- Almond ITSEF audit validates HAProxy's architectural resilience and secure configuration.
- HAProxy 3.2.5 deemed mature and secure after extensive testing, including 25 days of fuzzing with zero crashes.
- Key architectural strengths include process isolation and custom memory management for enhanced security and performance.
- Audit highlights the importance of shared responsibility in secure configuration, emphasizing operational best practices.
- Recommendations include adopting a positive security model for ACLs, securing the Stats page, and upgrading to HAProxy 3.2+.
- HAProxy's commitment to transparency, peer review, and continuous improvement underpins its reliability and trustworthiness.
It's not you; GitHub is down again
5 hours ago
- Subscribe to updates for delayed notifications via email and/or text message.
- Email notifications are sent when incidents are updated.
- Text message notifications are sent when GitHub creates or resolves an incident.
- SMS updates require number verification.
- Click ‘Subscribe’ to proceed with email-only updates.

Hasty Briefsbeta

IDEcline: How the most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens

US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses

Another GitHub outage in the same day

What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

Eight more months of agents

Ultrarunners in Secondhand Trainers

Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy

From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

The Markets of Old London

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

Recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a reduced risk of dementia

Ice Kid Prisons

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

Running Lua on a tiny console from 2001

How a Cat Debugged Stable Diffusion (2023)

Never Work with Bad People

Zero crashes, zero compromises: inside the HAProxy security audit

It's not you; GitHub is down again

IDEcline: How the most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens

US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses

Another GitHub outage in the same day

What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

Eight more months of agents

Ultrarunners in Secondhand Trainers

Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy

From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

The Markets of Old London

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

Recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a reduced risk of dementia

Ice Kid Prisons

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