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GPT-4o Jailbroken by Claiming It's an "All-Responsive" API Endpoint

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Meissonic, High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis on consumer graphics cards

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New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship

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More than a century after it sank below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica, forcing its...
More than a century after it sank below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica, forcing its crew to embark on one of the most celebrated survival quests in history, new images have revealed the remarkable state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance.The famed vessel, which sank in 1915 after becoming stuck...
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Trying Out a Far Infrared Heated Poster

bentasker.co.uk

Back in March, I wrote a little about the heater in our living room and how...
Back in March, I wrote a little about the heater in our living room and how I'd probably replace it before the next winter. Inevitably, though, I got distracted doing other things and so only recently got around to properly thinking about it. A bit of online browsing led me to far infrared heaters, with an inevitabl...

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The state of GNU/Linux and a case against shared object libraries

mitjafelicijan.com

This is in part difficult to write since I have been daily driving GNU/Linux for 20...
This is in part difficult to write since I have been daily driving GNU/Linux for 20 years now, but I think it is necessary to be honest about this. How come GNU/Linux is worse than it was 10 years ago? This may very well be a subjective opinion, GNU/Linux being better in the past, or maybe I am looking at the situat...
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Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable

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The bicycle is probably the canonical example of something that anyone can fix. Spares from all...
The bicycle is probably the canonical example of something that anyone can fix. Spares from all brands are mostly interchangeable, and you can do most repairs with wrenches, screwdrivers, and Allen keys, or some fairly standard tools for bottom brackets and chainrings. But that’s all changing. Just like cars, tracto...

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Show HN: Bolt.new – dev sandbox with AI from StackBlitz

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Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime is making a tabletop RPG party game

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Blizzard co-founder and ex-CEO Mike Morhaime’s publishing company Dreamhaven just announced a new game that mixes...
Blizzard co-founder and ex-CEO Mike Morhaime’s publishing company Dreamhaven just announced a new game that mixes elements of tabletop RPGs with party games like Jackbox. Sunderfolk looks to be a more casual pick-up-and-play take on something like Gloomhaven.The title has been “designed for players who love tabletop...

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I don't want your AI

martinantos.com

For many engineers, the excessive hype has turned the word “AI” into a somewhat agonizing buzzword....
For many engineers, the excessive hype has turned the word “AI” into a somewhat agonizing buzzword. There seems to be an interesting phenomenon going on with how products are built today around this buzzword. Every product team is jumping on this wave likely out of a fear of lagging behind. Though, what I see is com...
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How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence–experts want it to stop

arstechnica.com

In a response published simultaneously in JAMA Internal Medicine, oral medicine expert Yehuda Zadik championed Feit's...
In a response published simultaneously in JAMA Internal Medicine, oral medicine expert Yehuda Zadik championed Feit's point, calling it "an essential discussion about the necessity and risks of routine dental radiography, emphasizing once again the need for evidence-based dental care." Zadik, a professor of dental m...
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Project Euler

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PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework

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The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering

jsomers.net

In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that quickly...
In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that quickly became a classic in the field. Epistemologists going back to the Greeks had debated what it meant to know something, and in the Enlightenment, a definition was settled upon: to know something is to have a justif...
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Remains of a 3,500-year-old Ancient Greek Structure found in Croatia

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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old settlement in the heart of the Dalmatian village...
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old settlement in the heart of the Dalmatian village of Stobreč in Croatia. Stobreč is a picturesque village located near Split, about 250 miles south of Croatia’s capital, Zagreb. The discovery includes a well-preserved monumental Greek rampart, or defensive...

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Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver

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Google Funding Construction of Seven U.S. Nuclear Reactors

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Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense

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Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model

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Today we’re releasing our most capable and conversational voice model that can speak in 30+ languages...
Today we’re releasing our most capable and conversational voice model that can speak in 30+ languages using any voice or accent, with industry leading speed and accuracy. We’re also releasing 50+ new conversational AI voices across languages. Our mission is to make voice AI accessible, personal and capable for all. ...
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Why World War WordPress Will End with a Zombie Fork

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Image Credit: Night of the Living Dead With WP Engine & Automattic officially waging a legal...
Image Credit: Night of the Living Dead With WP Engine & Automattic officially waging a legal war against each other, I do not expect a civil end to this corporate pissing match. Assuming Matt Mullenweg can force WP Engine to pay a federal fine for violating WordPress's trademark (a real possibility), WP Engine could...
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Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study

medicalxpress.com

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Gosub – An open-source browser engine

github.com
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Accelerating ZFS with Copy Offloading: BRT

klarasystems.com

OpenZFS 2.2 was a milestone release that brought several long-anticipated features to everyone’s favorite filesystem. We’re...
OpenZFS 2.2 was a milestone release that brought several long-anticipated features to everyone’s favorite filesystem. We’re going to talk about automatically deduplicated copy operations via the new Block Reference Table feature, also known as the BRT or File Cloning. The addition of the BRT feature allows OpenZFS t...
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