The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction
The Interactive Module consists of an Embedding block and a cross-attention layer, translating keyboard inputs into natural language commands for video generation. For example, pressing W becomes “The car is driving forward” in Forza Horizon 5 or “The man is moving forward and looking up” in Cyberpunk 2077 when combined with upward mouse movement. For […]
Ford lost $3.7B on its EV sales
The entirety of Ford’s normal vehicle profits was undone by its losses on electric vehicles. Ford’s 2024 Q3 Earnings Presentation delivers the details: The year-to-date losses on Ford’s EV business (what the company calls “Ford Model e”) totaled $3.7 billion. Profits from Ford’s “Model Blue” division, which sells traditional internal combustion vehicles, also happened to […]
The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”
On May 21, 1946, the Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was demonstrating to several other Los Alamos scientists how to do a criticality experiment. Slotin wasn’t really doing an experiment at the time, in the sense of taking careful scientific measurements — he was simply showing how one would do them, because he was about to […]
Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking
David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike other creative processes, like making music, which can be heard, or painting pictures, which can be seen, math is for the most part an internal process, hidden from view. “It sounded a […]
Show HN: We Open-Sourced Our Compost Monitoring Tech – Use It for Your Projects
Welcome to the Monty Home Device Hacking Guide repository! This guide provides step-by-step instructions for extending the functionality of the Monty Home BLE device using a Raspberry Pi. Originally designed for compost monitoring, the Monty Home device collects valuable data on temperature, humidity, and other environmental metrics. Through this guide, you’ll learn how to retrieve, […]
Building Databases over a Weekend
Databases are some of the most complex pieces of software conceived since the advent of the computing age over half a century ago. [1] Nearly every piece of technology ends up touching the database in some way shape or form. Despite the ubiquity of Databases in the software stack, the vast majority of developers have […]
Vapi (YC W21) Is Hiring Founding Senior Engineer (Front End)
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Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript
Electrobun aims to be a complete solution-in-a-box for building, updating, and shipping ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop applications written in Typescript. Under the hood it uses bun to execute the main process and to bundle webview typescript, and has native bindings written in zig. Typescript Write typescript for the main process and webviews without […]
Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells
Trendy weight-loss drugs making headlines for shrinking waistlines may also be shrinking the human heart and other muscles, according to a new University of Alberta study whose authors say should serve as a “cautionary tale” about possible long-term health effects of these drugs. “If people have been prescribed these drugs, then the benefits should likely […]
Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds
Z-Library is one of the largest shadow libraries on the Internet, hosting millions of books and academic articles that can be downloaded for free. The site defied all odds over the past two years. It continued to operate despite a full-fledged criminal prosecution by the United States, which resulted in the arrest of two alleged […]