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742 points by krembo · 193 comments
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numpad0: - at least 50 hospitalized due to various injuries[1] - 9 missing, 12 house collapses, 4 trappings, 7 fires so far[1] - multiple highway road bridges snapped, roads damaged[2] - AEON brand shopping mall exploded following evacuation, cause unknown[3] - chimney collapsed a...
goginko: This was my first real earthquake since moving to Kyushu. After it stopped I looked it up, and the first place to post the epicenter and shindo was NERV's twitter...which is named after the org from the anime and has an anime screenshot as its banner (https://x.com/EN_NERV).
tkgally: In parts of Kumamoto Prefecture, it registered 7 on the Japanese shindo (seismic intensity) scale, which reflects the amount of ground shaking at a particular location. The shindo is a better indicator of the likely amount of damage than the magnitude is.
kalleboo: GPS reference data shows the ground has been displaced as much as 84 centimeters https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015189191000
436 points by codebyaditya · 205 comments
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iandanforth: The most interesting point of the article for me is that this vaccine appears to be a series of shots which act as a curriculum for the immune system. Each one slightly different and targeting a different stage of B-cell development.
RGS1811: While HIV vaccine research is an exciting field, it's worth pointing out that halting HIV transmission is, practically speaking, a solved problem with oral and injectable reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
croemer: The actual paper - never trust press releases from authors' institutions: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10837-5 Peer review files: https://media.springernature.com/original/springer-static/es... Independent article covering it: https://cen.acs.
khalic: Phase I trials happening now. Godspeed to them. It’s where most HIV vaccines die
390 points by cainxinth · 85 comments
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Aachen: > about 7 out of 10 people in the U.S. were prescribed antibiotics in 2024 according to . This blew my mind so I double checked the source. It links to https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/hcp/data-research/antibio... which contains some numbers but not the claim.
carschno: People interested in this: if you are ever in Amsterdam, I recommend to visit the Micropia museum: https://www.artis.nl/en/artis-micropia Among many stunning things, they have a shelf full of foods and drinks (behind glasses) with age labels, ranging from days to years.
thih9: In case anyone else is curious about the current status: > The Milk was declared missing on August 20th, 2022. > The dorm’s extended mailing list of over 300 current students, alumni, and other assorted Random-adjacent humans was contacted, twice. > In the end, no Milk.
tippa123: A great read from the author. It reminded me of my previous life as a bioprocess engineer, where I led investigations into biologically contaminated batches in biotech. It was fun stuff and I still remember some of the best advice I received from an Executive Vice President to ne...
315 points by doener · 99 comments
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atmosx: There is a surprising amount of engineers who don’t understand what’s happening. So they deal with it as if it’s a funny thing… yeah if two police officers come knocking your door with hard data, you will just explain… and yeah, I mean kids, can bypass it… right? Wrong.
damienmeur: Things are far more enjoyable as a teen when it s forbidden, remember the golden age of p2p! Teens who want to see porn will be able to see porns, but they will learn somethings along the way to do so This is caricatural of course, but it s just so dumb as law as enforcing age ve...
vid: I'm glad they mention privacy preserving and being voluntary. It's possible to make digital ID that allows selectively revealing attributes without identity, and that could solve problems like bots, socketpuppets, etc along with reasonable age-gating.
220hertz: Hopefully this fares better than Stop Killing Games.
262 points by AnhTho_FR · 110 comments
Guide to the DeltaNet Family of linear attention mechanisms.
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xp84: When I see these types of articles and headlines, it just makes me supremely grateful for all the many people far smarter[1] than me. And humbles me, too, since I actually passed for a "very smart person" in places like high school and undergrad.
rekshaw: after a cursory read, I can confidently say I could not, in fact, have come up with Kimi Delta Attention.
TrackerFF: Machine learning could need, and probably has needed, some unified math notation for the past 15 years IMO. With that said, it was worse back in the day - when ML papers were the products of researchers from all over, you'd see some wild notation.
neutrinobro: You know its a doozy when the author writes a disclaimer at the top saying that bra-ket notation was chosen in order to make the algorithm and data structures clearer.
239 points by ronfriedhaber · 102 comments
We introduce Kimi Linear, a hybrid linear attention architecture that, for the first time, outperforms full attention under fair comparisons across various scenarios -- including short-context, long-context, and reinforcement learning (RL) scaling regimes.
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oakpond: >To support further research, we open-source the KDA kernel and vLLM implementations, and release the pre-trained and instruction-tuned model checkpoints. This is just awesome.
delichon: If you want to believe that the success of Kimi is about distillation attacks, ignore this.
pooyamo: Does any expert in the field know whether it is really the case that this intelligence we are seeing with frontier models is an "emerging" phenomena, only coming up when the architecture is scaled? Like isn't it weird that the 1 million parameter model with the same architecture...
senko: Old but relevant: if you read the recently-released Kimi K3 paper[0], you'll see that it's heavily based on Kimi Linear discussed here, scaling it up and adding a bunch more things (like native vision and RL improvements). [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24653
200 points by mooreds · 65 comments
Casa Grande residents deserve safety with enforceable limits on Flock cameras. Read the evidence, sign the petition, and ask for warrants, audits, and oversight.
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collabs: I know this is preaching to the choir but from the article on the person holding the skimmer > Police can also use the cameras to surveil protestors and stalk ex-lovers—or strangers they find attractive.
tokioyoyo: I do find it very funny how over the past couple of decades US has been talking about how awful Chinese government is wrt surveillance, but now doing exactly the same but through private industry contracts instead.
mooreds: I learned about this site from the 404 media article: https://www.404media.co/casa-grande-arizona-flock-city-counc... An excerpt: > “I've spent the last several months talking to people all over Casa Grande, and one thing keeps coming up: Safety.
joshcsimmons: I am right up the road from Casa Grande. I run a youtube channel with 30k subs and have recently gotten VERY INTERESTED in investigating Flock/Deflock. I had no idea the cameras were everywhere. I'll reach out anywhere on the site but feel free to get in touch here as well.
185 points by andor · 130 comments
This document describes the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6.
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tengwar2: 15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071. For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to defer upgrading until MacOS 27 is available, and MacOS 15 is the previous version.
pjmlp: Map the amount of fixes with "... improved bounds checking...", "...improved memory handling...", "...improved memory management..." into the amount of developer, QA and release management teams salaries per hour, versus other stuff they could be working on, and that gives an app...
embedding-shape: Lots of "in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research" mentions, no mentions of other labs. I'd assume Apple already had access to whatever the most powerful model is at the various US-based labs, but perhaps not?
TheJoeMan: This may be a naive take, so if anyone has insight please feel free to share, but across Windows, Mac, and Linux OS's I see many cases of path parsing vulnerabilities resulting in sandbox escapes, code execution, or data access issues.
166 points by charliebwrites · 27 comments
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imzadi: I got a Pixel 10 during prime day and installed GrapheneOS with Cape for the provider. So far, it's been mostly great. The only setback, for me, is the lack of support for tap to pay. I haven't been able to get any wallet app to work.
casper14: Given how long I've been using Graphene, this is not a bad idea also because there has been increasing pressure from governments clamping down on privacy solutions
tomatopepper: Also, gonna post the crowdfunding link for Samuel Tunick, the American protestor facing federal charges for allegedly giving a DHS officer a GrapheneOS duress password: https://www.givesendgo.
dvh: Why not sell phones?
164 points by speckx · 112 comments
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simonsarris: I just have website.com and my Substack is subdomain.website.com. If I ever wanted to move off (I definitely don't!) I could keep all the urls exactly the same with self-hosting.
skippyfish: Counterpoint from someone who's been publishing on the internet for decades: no one will visit your website. It's as simple as that. You need a push mechanism to reach readers. RSS could be it, but it's too niche.
peteforde: Everyone's experience will be different, but I will say that I have not received significant network effects traffic on Substack nor have I ever been tempted to click on suggested posts to others' content.
schlagetown: I'm one of the creators of Leaflet - https://leaflet.pub - also mentioned in another comment. We're making a publishing app kind of like Substack or Ghost, but connected to the open social ecosystem building on AT Protocol.
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