RadhaKrishna

[RiscV @MKVRiscy]

A few months ago I underwent some training on the semiconductor manufacturing process and one thing the speaker said that stuck out to me was “understand that every technical term you hear during this presentation was the result of 2 or 3 PhD thesis”

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“tell toranaga-sama that cursor is incredible. a game changer. in its current form it’s basically the equivalent of having a technical cofounder or a team of senior engineers. tell him i’m excited to see what i can build with cursor + claude”

“the anjin doesn’t know how to code”

[Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV]

I have some tough news.

Today, @_buildspace is closing.

I wanna be real about everything.

It’s not because of investor pressure, runway, internal drama, monetization, or any of those reasons.

The actual reason is a bit more personal.

I wrote a letter about it below.

I know this company means so much to so many people. I hope after reading the letter, you can understand.

Ty for the five best years of my life.

No matter what happens, ily.

https://t.co/aKz2DJCENg

[TDM (e/λ) (L8 vibe coder 💫) @cto_junior]

Damn, SAM-2 is goated

it's able to accurately segment out the waifu even during rapid pose changes in the end

[Steve Hollasch @hollasch]

Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0 release is finally out! Three and a half years in the making — phew! Tons of fixes, changes, and new material.

https://t.co/C9Uo4p3MpZ

[Zach Vorhies / AI Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

Crowdstrike Analysis:

It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

We thought like, maybe a big ransomware incident, or a data leak.

We didn't expect arguably one of the largest IT outages in history caused by arguably one of the largest cybersecurity companies in history.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

I saw many engineers blaming the outage on Microsoft 🤦‍♂️ SWEs blaming without knowing the root cause is concerning.

It is not Microsoft, it is Crowdstrike who released an update for Windows that had a bug. The patch runs in Kernel mode to monitor system activity at a low level.

Because it was running in Kernel mode, the buggy code was trying to access an invalid memory location that triggered a panic and which showed Blue Screen of Death.

The name of the driver file that had the buggy update is "C-00000291.sys", deleting it fixes the issue and unfortunately this needs to be done manually.

Microsoft has nothing to do with it.

[Manu Awasthi @mnwsth]

Just thought of doing a random comparison, of a top rated Chinese University (Tsinghua) and top rated Indian University (IISc).

I am not picking on any institution, but trying to make a comparison. Generally, the top performing institutions are the best funded ones. At least according to the levels of funding in the country under consideration.

I am going by the data available on Wikipedia which might not be completely correct, but allows us to get ballpark numbers.

Compared to IISc, Tsinghua has:
- 6.8x the faculty
- 5.75x PhD students.

Tsinghua also has a USD 6B endowment. I don't think IISc has one. And even if it does, it will be very, very small (to the extent that the government rules allow)

In addition, Tsinghua graduates 10s of thousands of UGs and PGs every year, which IISc doesn't, but lets leave that aside for a moment.

This didn't happen overnight. It took a long time (decades), a lot of effort, and a lot of money to make this happen. The country decided that it is in their long term interests to fund research and universities within the country. They got the best people to work in these places, gave them the facilities they needed -- funding, spaces, equipment, incentives to get research going. And they kept doing it for a long, long time without expecting to see returns right away. I personally know of cases where top universities in China made such good offers to excellent candidates that no sane person could reject them.

And the results are there for everyone to see.

BTW, Tsinghua is just one example. There are many such universities in China that have similar levels of funding and research output.

Our top institutions do the best they can. But, end of day, they are shackled by the lack of vision and commitment of successive governments to develop the country as a research powerhouse. And then there are myriad bureaucratic rules on top of that make it even more difficult.

[kenneth @kennethnym]

new website just dropped

[anpaure @anpaure]

this is the average male fantasy btw

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

I suspect that at a time you can only attempt one major project in life.

Either you’re getting fit, or making a career change, or trying to get married, or planning a startup.

Multi tasking at micro scale doesn’t work, but neither does it work at macro scale.

[Mr. Rc @rcx86]

Resist the temptations of the shiny object syndrome sometimes.

[Mr. Rc @rcx86]

I'm working on a Visual Debugger for Assembly (x86, arm and other major archs.) which is going to be cross platform and FOSS

Demo video link in post below

cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

I love this exchange.

[fabian @fabianstelzer]

just built a fully automated Wojak meme generator in Glif in 5 min:

Claude 3.5 block generates the meme as JSON
ComfyUI block uses a Wojak Lora to generate a fitting image
JSON extractor + Canvas Block ties it all together

input "AI entrepreneur" 💀

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]