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Manufactured Housing: Further HUD Action is Needed to Increase Available Loan Products | U.S. GAO
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105615

Manufactured Housing: Further HUD Action is Needed to Increase Available Loan Products
Manufactured housing—prefabricated, factory built homes—can be an affordable option for lower-income homebuyers. But some borrowers may not qualify...

'Audiences are making a rational decision not to consume news products' https://www.journalism.co.uk/news-commentary/-audiences-are-making-a-rational-decision-not-to-consume-our-products-/s6/a103367…

'Audiences are making a rational decision not to consume news products'
News avoiders are simply 'frustrated sense seekers' who do not see value in traditional journalism, says Shirish Kulkarni

Peritas Brands v. Leaphigh Animals - Judge dismisses patent owner's motion to dismiss the patent claims, based on a covenant not to sue:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575.86.…

TIL double sided Kapton tape is a thing.
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/bertech/PPTDE-1-4/11680908
Going to have to pick some up to play with. I have ideas.

PPTDE-1/4 | Digi-Key Electronics
Order today, ships today. PPTDE-1/4 – Double Coated, Double Sided Tape Silicone Adhesive Amber 0.25" (6.35mm) 1/4" X 108' (32.9m) 36 yds from Bertech. Pricing and Availability on millions of electronic components from Digi-Key Electronics.

Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of the Google News Initiative (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/as-t…

As Tech Firms Prioritize AI in News Dealings, Other Deals Get Cut
Google has agreed to pay Wall Street Journal owner News Corp between $5 million and $6 million annually to develop new artificial intelligence–related content and products, according to a News Corp staffer and another person close to the deal. The new and previously unreported arrangement ...

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of the Google News Initiative (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/as-t…

As Tech Firms Prioritize AI in News Dealings, Other Deals Get Cut
Google has agreed to pay Wall Street Journal owner News Corp between $5 million and $6 million annually to develop new artificial intelligence–related content and products, according to a News Corp staffer and another person close to the deal. The new and previously unreported arrangement ...

Neosensory's wristband tech improves speech understanding for hearing loss patients https://hearingreview.com/hearing-products/accessories/assistive-technologies/neosenso…

Wristband Tech Improves Speech Understanding for Hearing Loss Patients | The Hearing Review
A new clinical trial from Neosensory demonstrated its wristband technology significantly improved speech comprehension.

#Hosting provider Hetzner, #AS24940 announces billing changes: "[...] we will change the billing for many of our products from monthly to hourly. Some products will be based on consumption. This structure will be similar to our Cloud billing. It will take effect in March 2024."
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/new-billing-model/

Peritas Brands v. Leaphigh Animals - Judge dismisses patent owner's motion to dismiss the patent claims, based on a covenant not to sue:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575.86.…

TIL double sided Kapton tape is a thing.
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/bertech/PPTDE-1-4/11680908
Going to have to pick some up to play with. I have ideas.

PPTDE-1/4 | Digi-Key Electronics
Order today, ships today. PPTDE-1/4 – Double Coated, Double Sided Tape Silicone Adhesive Amber 0.25" (6.35mm) 1/4" X 108' (32.9m) 36 yds from Bertech. Pricing and Availability on millions of electronic components from Digi-Key Electronics.

Lower General Position in Cartesian Products
Eartha Kruft Welton, Sharif Khudairi, James Tuite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19451 https://

Lower General Position in Cartesian Products
A subset $S$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is in \emph{general position} if no shortest path in $G$ contains three vertices of $S$. The \emph{general position problem} consists of finding the number of vertices in a largest general position set of $G$, whilst the \emph{lower general position problem} asks for a smallest maximal general position set. In this paper we determine the lower general position numbers of several families of Cartesian products. We also show that the existence of small maxi…

"Much like ChatGPT, Altman is capable only of loosely approximating the output requested, because at his core he lacks any of the substance or technical history required to do so. Like ChatGPT, he’s a know-nothing that, through deterministic measures completely detached from the meaning of the underlying ideas, picks the right words to say at the right time."
(Original title: Managing Up)

Managing Up
Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to the interventions of a managerial class.

Ouch: https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team/ I wonder how much of this is due to the ass whuppin' that Chinese manufacturers are apparently handing Tesla in China wh…

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Softmax Attention with Constant Cost per Token
We propose a simple modification to the conventional attention mechanism applied by Transformers: Instead of quantifying pairwise query-key similarity with scaled dot-products, we quantify it with the logarithms of scaled dot-products of exponentials. Our modification linearizes attention with exponential kernel feature maps, whose corresponding feature function is infinite dimensional. We show that our modification is expressible as a composition of log-sums of exponentials, with a latent spac…

That GitHub Enterprise pricing at $39/mo/user or an eye-watering $468 a year.
This is a good reminder that #JetBrains products are an absolute steal.
- dotUltimate: $469 on the first year and $281 a year from third year onwards
- All Products Pack: $779 for the first year and $467 a year from the third year onwards
Honestly, JetBrains IDEs are the best deal in profession…

Dealing with Missing Modalities in Multimodal Recommendation: a Feature Propagation-based Approach
Daniele Malitesta, Emanuele Rossi, Claudio Pomo, Fragkiskos D. Malliaros, Tommaso Di Noia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19841

Dealing with Missing Modalities in Multimodal Recommendation: a Feature Propagation-based Approach
Multimodal recommender systems work by augmenting the representation of the products in the catalogue through multimodal features extracted from images, textual descriptions, or audio tracks characterising such products. Nevertheless, in real-world applications, only a limited percentage of products come with multimodal content to extract meaningful features from, making it hard to provide accurate recommendations. To the best of our knowledge, very few attention has been put into the problem o…

Wizkids bringt ein Icons of the Realms Tomb of Annihilation Complete Set: https://shop.wizkids.com/products/d-d-icons-of-the-realms-tomb-of-annihilation-complete-set
Enthalten sind alle Minis, die es bisher nur in Blindboxen g…

In Ternopil Oblast, all USAID DOBRE partner communities are creating spaces for economic growth USAID DOBRE partner communities in Ternopil Oblast have set out to help their residents get comfortable Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/290224789

2021 retro-link! https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/ - jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.

Whoever pulled this kit together is a genius. I'm just sad that I didn't see this in time to order one. I expect to be very jealous when John Green inevitably wears it in several videos.
https://rowingblazers.com/products/war

"the rise of AI products like #ChatGPT, and the #LLMs underlying them, have made high-quality training data one of the internet’s most valuable commodities. That has caused internet providers of all sorts to reconsider the value of the data on their servers, and rethink who gets access to what. Being too …

With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial
For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

Amalgams of matroids, fibre products and tropical graph correspondences
Dmitry Mineev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18127 https://arxiv.…

Amalgams of matroids, fibre products and tropical graph correspondences
We prove that the proper amalgam of matroids $M_1$ and $M_2$ along their common restriction $N$ exists if and only if the tropical fibre product of Bergman fans ${B(M_1) \times_{B(N)} B(M_2)}$ is positive. We introduce tropical correspondences between Bergman fans as tropical subcycles in their product, similar to correspondences in algebraic geometry, and define a "graph correspondence" of the map of lattices. We prove that graph construction is a functor for the "covering" maps of lattices, e…

Global Estimation of Range Resolved Thermodynamic Profiles from MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidar
Matthew Hayman, Robert A. Stillwell, Adam Karboski, Willem J. Marais, Scott M. Spuler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17895

Global Estimation of Range Resolved Thermodynamic Profiles from MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidar
We demonstrate thermodynamic profile estimation with data obtained using the MicroPulse DIAL such that the retrieval is entirely self contained. The only external input is surface meteorological variables obtained from a weather station installed on the instrument. The estimator provides products of temperature, absolute humidity and backscatter ratio such that cross dependencies between the lidar data products and raw observations are accounted for and the final products are self consistent. T…

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Characteristic $p$ analogues of the Mumford--Tate and André--Oort conjectures for products of ordinary GSpin Shimura varieties
Let $p$ be an odd prime. We state characteristic $p$ analogues of the Mumford--Tate conjecture and the André--Oort conjecture for ordinary strata of mod $p$ Shimura varieties. We prove the conjectures for arbitrary products of GSpin Shimura varieties (and their subvarieties). Important subvarieties of GSpin Shimura varieties include modular and Shimura curves, Hilbert modular surfaces, $\mathrm{U}(1,n)$ unitary Shimura varieties, and moduli spaces of principally polarized Abelian and K3 surfac…

Nice to see @… and their products like @… in the Fediverse :)

SPINN just Announced this New Swift-Lock Magnetic Quick Release Plate - Fuji Rumors
#Photography #Spinn

SPINN just Announced this New Swift-Lock Magnetic Quick Release Plate - Fuji Rumors
The German company Spinn is known for launching many successful products. Now they announced the new magnetic Swift-lock on Kickstarter (Click here). This is how it works: 

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

"Keep all of our fossil fuels in the ground..." either means
A) We buy all our fossil fuels and petroleum products from elsewhere, driving & funding further Middle East conflict
or
B) People starve.
Seriously, without modern agriculture we go back to large fractions of the human population starving to death. And modern agriculture means you effectively eat petroleum that was grown with fossil-fueled tractors and shipped with fossil fueled trucks.

Get lifetime access to #CleanShot X for FREE with your first AppSumo purchase (new users only). Just add CleanShot X to your cart and use code CLEANSHOTFREE at checkout
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CleanShot X - Better screen capture for Mac
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2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: The Winners Are In
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-269a6bcb-de7c34a0cb50c0ce
2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: The Winners Are In Home automation is huge right now in consumer electronics, but despite the wide …

At the Apple Store to buy a watch. There is a 15-20 minute wait to talk to someone to do it. I have made a lot of money with this stock but this company is a dog. Missing the boat with AI and not creating products that anybody actually desires. Continuing to sell it.

Hey folks,
@… is looking for a new gig after three years at Stately. She’s a designer and front-end developer who writes, gives talks, makes videos, and has been doing a fair bit of dev/design advocacy recently.
Her approach is best summed up in her book, Accessibility for Everyone (

Accessibility for Everyone

Explicit Quillen models for Cartesian products of $2$-cones
Urtzi Buijs, Jos\'e Carrasquel, Lucile Vandembroucq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18168 https:…

Explicit Quillen models for Cartesian products of $2$-cones
We give an explicit minimal Quillen model for the Cartesian product $X\times Y$ of rational $2$-cones in terms of derivations and a binary operation $\star \colon \mathbb{M}(V)\otimes \mathbb{L}(W)\to \mathbb{L}(V\oplus W\oplus s(V\otimes W))$, where $(\mathbb{L}(V), \partial)$ and $(\mathbb{L}(W), \partial)$ are Quillen minimal models for $X$ and $Y$ respectively and $\mathbb{M}$ denotes the free magma on $W$. The model presented also allows us to explicitly describe a model for the diagonal m…

♻️ By-Product Valorization as a Means for the Brewing Industry to Move toward a Circular Bioeconomy
#sustainability

By-Product Valorization as a Means for the Brewing Industry to Move toward a Circular Bioeconomy
Beer production consumes significant amounts of water, energy, and raw materials, and results in the production of various by-products, including wastewater, brewers’ spent grain, yeast and hop. To lower its environmental footprint, by-products may be reclaimed or valorized in agro-food, cosmetic, material, chemical industries, etc. According to most recent research, breweries have the potential to become biorefineries, as they can extract diverse valuable plant-based compounds such as carboh…

Sometimes I miss reddit but then I see articles like "AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products" and I'm convinced it will only get worse.
➡️ https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-products-and…

AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
A market for manipulating Reddit using AI have emerged.

Was macht #NFDI4Culture eigentlich genau? Anhand von Anwendungsbeispielen erzählen unsere Success Stories, wie die Zusammenarbeit mit unseren GLAM- und NFDI-Partnern aussieht.
Unsere neuesten Stories: Wie mit Hilfe der Community Handreichungen zum #Forschungsdatenmanagement ent…

A US judge orders the NSO Group to hand over its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to WhatsApp, as part of the company's ongoing litigation (Stephanie Kirchgaessner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

The post is asking for opinions on building a custom cybersecurity stack, starting from the user level to application level. The poster is not seeking an all-in-one solution but prefers standalone products, providing examples for various levels of security. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1br5ndv/

My gaming needs are pretty simple. I enjoy old-fashioned dungeon crawlers, turn-based battles and a chance to build my party with treasure, weapons and experience. Also, since I am often playing while other things are going on around me, I need to be able to put it down at a moment’s notice and go do something else. Also, I mostly play on my iPad.
By far the best games I’ve come across are the offerings from Spiderweb Software — the Avernum series and Avadon series. Both offer many, ma…

Products of commutators in matrix rings
Matej Bre\v{s}ar, Eusebio Gardella, Hannes Thiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18116 https://arx…

Products of commutators in matrix rings
Let $R$ be a ring and let $n\ge 2$. We discuss the question of whether every element in the matrix ring $M_n(R)$ is a product of (additive) commutators $[x,y]=xy-yx$, for $x,y\in M_n(R)$. An example showing that this does not always hold, even when $R$ is commutative, is provided. If, however, $R$ has Bass stable rank one, then under various additional conditions every element in $M_n(R)$ is a product of three commutators. Further, if $R$ is a division ring with infinite center, then every elem…

Dope eclipse spectacles https://www.roka.com/products/matador-eclipse-sunglasses

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive Stars at low metallicity II. DR1: Advanced optical data products for the Magellanic Clouds
H. Sana, F. Tramper, M. Abdul-Masih, R. Blomme, K. Dsilva, G. Maravelias, L. Martins, A. Mehner, A. Wofford, G. Banyard, C. L. Barbosa, J. Bestenlehner, C. Hawcroft, D. John Hillier, H. Todt, C. J. K. Larkin, L. Mahy, F. Najarro, V. Ramachandran, M. C. Ramirez-Tannus, M. M. Rubio-Diez, A. A. C. Sander, T. Shenar, J. S. Vink, F. Backs, S. A. Brands, P. Crowther, L. Deci…

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive Stars at low metallicity II. DR1: Advanced optical data products for the Magellanic Clouds
Using the medium resolution spectrograph X-shooter, spectra of 235 OB and Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in sub-solar metallicity environments have been secured. [...]This second paper focuses on the optical observations of 232 Magellanic Clouds targets. It describes the uniform reduction of the UVB (300 - 560 nm) and VIS (550 - 1020 nm) XShootU data as well as the preparation of advanced data products [...] . The data reduction of the raw data is based on the ESO CPL X-shooter pipeline. We paid particu…

Central Limit Theorem for tensor products of free variables
C\'ecilia Lancien, Patrick Oliveira Santos, Pierre Youssef
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19662

Central Limit Theorem for tensor products of free variables
We establish a central limit theorem for tensor product random variables $c_k:=a_k \otimes a_k$, where $(a_k)_{k \in \mathbb{N}}$ is a free family of variables. We show that if the variables $a_k$ are centered, the limiting law is the semi-circle. Otherwise, the limiting law depends on the mean and variance of the variables $a_k$ and corresponds to a free interpolation between the semi-circle law and the classical convolution of two semi-circle laws.

Yes indeed this has always been true https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112187269205540751

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image Avoid backdoors in open source software by buying American vendor products. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27D1DO/

Asympotic bounds for Bombieri's inequality on products of homogeneous polynomials
J. M. Aldaz, H. Render
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19153 https://

Asympotic bounds for Bombieri's inequality on products of homogeneous polynomials
Let $P$ be a fixed homogeneous polynomial. We present a sharp condition on $P$ guaranteeing the existence of asymptotically larger bounds in Bombieri's inequality, so for every homogeneous polynomial $q_m$ of degree $m$ we have \begin{equation*} \left\Vert P q_{m}\right\Vert _{a}\geq C_{P} m^{l\left( P\right) /2}\left\Vert q_{m}\right\Vert _{a}, \end{equation*} where $\| \cdot \| _{a}$ denotes the apolar norm. Explicit estimates for $C_P > 0$ and $l(P) > 0$ are given.

I've been thinking, and I suppose someone already had this idea, but… how about we introduce a product tax that's inversely proportional to manufacturer's warranty?
The idea is roughly this:
1. If they continue making crappy products with short warranty, the extra tax is going to make them more expensive.
2. If they continue making crappy products, but extend warranty, they're going to invest more in replacements — and therefore the products should become more expensive implicitly.
3. If they make better products with extended warranty, we win.
Not saying this will actually work — but as long as crappy products become more expensive, people would buy less.

Check out today's Metacurity for the major infosec developments you should know, including
--Biden to sign executive order limiting sales of Americans' sensitive data to China, other adversaries
--Global law enforcement partners warn Russians are hacking Ubiquiti EdgeRouters,
--Pharma giant Cencora hit by cyber incident,
--OpenAI claims NYT 'hacked' its products,
--Ransomware newcomer claims hack of Epic Games,
--LockBit gives Fulton County new deadline,
-- Feds warn of ALPHV attacks on healthcare,
--More groups exploit ScreenConnect flaws,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/biden-sign-executive-order-limiting-sales-americans-sensitive-data-china-adversaries

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Quantum Covariance Scalar Products and Efficient Estimation of Max-Ent Projections
The maximum-entropy principle (Max-Ent) is a valuable and extensively used tool in statistical mechanics and quantum information theory. It provides a method for inferring the state of a system by utilizing a reduced set of parameters associated with measurable quantities. However, the computational cost of employing Max-Ent projections in simulations of quantum many-body systems is a significant drawback, primarily due to the computational cost of evaluating these projections. In this work, a …

Also TIL Cleveland Kitchen bought Sonoma Brinery, another favorite store-bought pickle. Their products are quite similar so the overlap makes sense.

Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden sue OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using copyrighted articles without permission to train generative AI products (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/business/media…

8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.

Wreath-like products of groups and their von Neumann algebras III: Embeddings
Ionut Chifan, Adrian Ioana, Denis Osin, Bin Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19461

Wreath-like products of groups and their von Neumann algebras III: Embeddings
For a class of wreath-like product groups with property (T), we describe explicitly all the embeddings between their von Neumann algebras. This allows us to provide a continuum of ICC groups with property (T) whose von Neumann algebras are pairwise non (stably) embeddable. We also give a construction of groups in this class only having inner injective homomorphisms. As an application, we obtain examples of group von Neumann algebras which admit only inner endomorphisms.

as a long term customer of hetzner over many many years it is very sad to me that the marketing bullshit bing is getting more and more. in the early days this wasn't. you got cheap servers with good hardware and a technical aware support. but today he products are sometimes strange built and the marketingblabla is tough to read. #hetzner

A State-of-the-practice Release-readiness Checklist for Generative AI-based Software Products
Harsh Patel, Dominique Boucher, Emad Fallahzadeh, Ahmed E. Hassan, Bram Adams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18958

A State-of-the-practice Release-readiness Checklist for Generative AI-based Software Products
This paper investigates the complexities of integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into software products, with a focus on the challenges encountered for determining their readiness for release. Our systematic review of grey literature identifies common challenges in deploying LLMs, ranging from pre-training and fine-tuning to user experience considerations. The study introduces a comprehensive checklist designed to guide practitioners in evaluating key release readiness aspects such as perfo…

New York suing major beef producer over environmental impact of products (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4495492-jbs-new-york-state-beef-environmental-lawsuit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240228/p91#a240228p91

Is #Apple about to jump the shark by adding #GenerativeAI to all of its products? Do its customers actually want this and, crucially, will you be able to switch it off? #macOS

Boundedness of the p-primary torsion of the Brauer group of products of varieties
Alexei N. Skorobogatov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19150 https://

Boundedness of the p-primary torsion of the Brauer group of products of varieties
Let k be a field finitely generated over its prime subfield. We prove that the quotient of the Brauer group of a product of varieties over k by the Brauer groups of factors has finite exponent. The bulk of the proof concerns p-primary torsion in characteristic p. Our approach gives a more direct proof of the boundedness of the p-primary torsion of the Brauer group of an abelian variety, as recently proved by D'Addezio. We show that the transcendental Brauer group of a Kummer surface over k has …

Never mind @…, I found my solution!
I was able to massage my notional hierarchy into MindMap by starting from the Greyscale style, and then using the manual layout and the compact style, using the top-down approach, and styling things like I wanted.
Later, I used Format > Extract Theme to create my own version of the sytle for later application.<…

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ASAP: Automated Sequence Planning for Complex Robotic Assembly with Physical Feasibility
The automated assembly of complex products requires a system that can automatically plan a physically feasible sequence of actions for assembling many parts together. In this paper, we present ASAP, a physics-based planning approach for automatically generating such a sequence for general-shaped assemblies. ASAP accounts for gravity to design a sequence where each sub-assembly is physically stable with a limited number of parts being held and a support surface. We apply efficient tree search al…

Alibaba is cutting prices for over 100 core cloud products in China by up to 55%, and 20% on average, including data storage and elastic computing products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02…

Alibaba Unveils Big Cloud Price Cuts as AI Rivalry Deepens
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out its second major price cut for cloud services in years, aiming to win back users from rivals like Tencent Holdings Ltd. competing to provide the tools critical to training artificial intelligence.

omg a plush ED-209 from #robocop!
https://www.toynk.com/products/robocop-ed-209-12-inch-collector-plush-toy

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

"Decathlon expands buy-back scheme for sports gear to promote circular economy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Decathlon

Decathlon expands buy-back scheme for sports gear to promote circular economy
Decathlon, the global sports retailer, has expanded its buy-back scheme to allow customers to swap out and repair old sporting equipment while earning store vouchers, in a bid to promote responsible consumption and provide circular economy for all its products.

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Chain of trust: Unraveling the references among Common Criteria certified products
With 5394 security certificates of IT products and systems, the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation have bred an ecosystem entangled with various kind of relations between the certified products. Yet, the prevalence and nature of dependencies among Common Criteria certified products remains largely unexplored. This study devises a novel method for building the graph of references among the Common Criteria certified products, determining the different contexts of refer…

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

US warns American companies to stop shipping products that may end up in Russian weapons: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/us-warns-american.html

CDC warns of looming tetanus shot shortages this summer | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4498192-cdc-tetanus-shot-shortages/

CDC warns of looming tetanus shot shortages this summer
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising doctors to conserve a certain type of tetanus shot in anticipation of shortages after one of its two manufacturers stopped production.  Two tetanus and diphtheria (Td) vaccine products have been available for use in the United States: one made by Sanofi, and one made by…

Interesting - and logical - to see the first third-party distributor of Tesla DC chargers adding smart charging ("automates charging when energy costs are low") as a key feature for fleets.
https://bppulsefleet.com/fleet/product

EV charging bundle with Tesla hardware - bp pulse
The bp pulse EV charging bundle with Tesla hardware combines ultra-fast Tesla hardware, charge management software, and warranty in one solution for smarter, more reliable EV fleet charging.

så sugen https://korenpub.com/collections/koren-mikraot-hadorot/products/sefer-shemot-set-10-volumes

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New favorite thing: https://treedix.com/products/treedix-usb-cable-tester-board-usb-cable-checker-data-wire-with-acrylic-case-charging-test-data-li…

Treedix USB Cable Tester Board USB Cable Checker Data Wire with Acrylic Case Charging Test Data Line Type-C Micro Type A Type B

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-and-microprocessors/32-bit-mcus/pic32-32-bit-mcus/pic32cz-ca
Never thought I'd see the day, an ARM core in a PIC-branded MCU.

Alibaba is cutting prices for over 100 core cloud products in China by up to 55%, and 20% on average, including data storage and elastic computing products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02…

Alibaba Unveils Big Cloud Price Cuts as AI Rivalry Deepens
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out its second major price cut for cloud services in years, aiming to win back users from rivals like Tencent Holdings Ltd. competing to provide the tools critical to training artificial intelligence.

The post is asking for opinions on building a custom cybersecurity stack, starting from the user level to application level. The poster is not seeking an all-in-one solution but prefers standalone products, providing examples for various levels of security. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1br5ndv/

Dope eclipse spectacles https://www.roka.com/products/matador-eclipse-sunglasses

Beats announces $200 Solo 4 on-ear headphones, with up to 50 hours of battery life, and $80 wireless Solo Buds shipping in June, both without ANC (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145198/beats-solo-4-headphones-buds

Beats announces Solo 4 headphones and $79.99 Solo Buds
Beats has announced two new products: the Solo 4 are the company’s latest on-ear headphones, and the Solo Buds are Beats’ first true wireless buds to cost under $100.

I've been thinking, and I suppose someone already had this idea, but… how about we introduce a product tax that's inversely proportional to manufacturer's warranty?
The idea is roughly this:
1. If they continue making crappy products with short warranty, the extra tax is going to make them more expensive.
2. If they continue making crappy products, but extend warranty, they're going to invest more in replacements — and therefore the products should become more expensive implicitly.
3. If they make better products with extended warranty, we win.
Not saying this will actually work — but as long as crappy products become more expensive, people would buy less.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13973 has been replaced.
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On Products of $Δ$-sets
We prove the consistency of the existence of a $Q$-set whose square is not a $Δ$-set and that if there is a $Δ$-set, then there exists a $Δ$-set whose all finite powers are $Δ$-sets.

Managing Security Evidence in Safety-Critical Organizations
Mazen Mohamad, Jan-Philipp Stegh\"ofer, Eric Knauss, Riccardo Scandariato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17332

Managing Security Evidence in Safety-Critical Organizations
With the increasing prevalence of open and connected products, cybersecurity has become a serious issue in safety-critical domains such as the automotive industry. As a result, regulatory bodies have become more stringent in their requirements for cybersecurity, necessitating security assurance for products developed in these domains. In response, companies have implemented new or modified processes to incorporate security into their product development lifecycle, resulting in a large amount of…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00003 has been replaced.
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Ordinality and Riemann Hypothesis
We study a sufficient condition of the Riemann hypothesis. This condition is the existence of a special ordering on the set of finite products of distinct odd prime numbers.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02965 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Distributive laws and Hopf quasigroups
In this paper we introduce the notion of $a$-monoidal distributive law between two Hopf quasigroups $A$ and $H$. We prove that every $a$-monoidal distributive law induce a product on $A\otimes H$, called the wreath product, thanks to which $A\otimes H$ becomes in a Hopf quasigroup. Finally, using this construction, we show that double cross products of Hopf quasigroups, cross products of Hopf quasigroups with a skew pairing between them, Hopf quasigroups defined by the twisted double method, sm…

omg a plush ED-209 from #robocop!
https://www.toynk.com/products/robocop-ed-209-12-inch-collector-plush-toy

Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden sue OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using copyrighted articles without permission to train generative AI products (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/business/media…

8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.

HPE reports Q1 revenue down 14% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $7.1B est., Server revenue down 23% YoY to $3.4B, and reduces its FY 2024 outlook for sales growth and profit (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

HPE Shares Decline on Reduced Full-Year Sales Growth, Profit Forecast
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reduced its outlook for sales growth and profit in the current fiscal year, citing lower demand for networking products and a crunch in computer chip availability.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05203 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Products of varieties with many integral points
Corvaja and Zannier asked whether a smooth projective integral variety with a dense set of rational points over a number field satisfies the weak Hilbert property. We introduce an extension of the weak Hilbert property for schemes over arithmetic base rings by considering near-integral points, extending Corvaja-Zannier's question beyond the projective case. Building on work of Bary-Soroker-Fehm-Petersen and Corvaja-Demeio-Javanpeykar-Lombardo-Zannier, we prove several properties of this more ge…

Some publishers are hesitant to monetize generative AI chatbots with ads because of low CPMs and lack of scale, opting to build a subscription model first (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/why-some-publish…

Why some publishers aren’t ready to monetize generative AI chatbots with ads yet
Monetization of generative AI chatbot experiences is slow going. Some publishing execs said they’re not ready to add advertising to these products until they scale or can build a subscription model first.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

More Than 900 Widely Used Chemicals May Increase Breast Cancer Risk - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10012024/everday-chemicals-breast-cancer-risk/

More Than 900 Widely Used Chemicals May Increase Breast Cancer Risk - Inside Climate News
Ninety percent of the chemicals identified as potential breast carcinogens in a new study are found in everyday products in homes and workplaces.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14181 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Grid Minors and Products
Motivated by recent developments regarding the product structure of planar graphs, we study relationships between treewidth, grid minors, and graph products. We show that the Cartesian product of any two connected $n$-vertex graphs contains an $Ω(\sqrt{n})\timesΩ(\sqrt{n})$ grid minor. This result is tight: The lexicographic product (which includes the Cartesian product as a subgraph) of a star and any $n$-vertex tree has no $ω(\sqrt{n})\timesω(\sqrt{n})$ grid minor.

Formalized Identification Of Key Factors In Safety-Relevant Failure Scenarios
Tim Maurice Julitz, Nadine Schl\"uter, Manuel L\"ower
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18194

Formalized Identification Of Key Factors In Safety-Relevant Failure Scenarios
This research article presents a methodical data-based approach to systematically identify key factors in safety-related failure scenarios, with a focus on complex product-environmental systems in the era of Industry 4.0. The study addresses the uncertainty arising from the growing complexity of modern products. The method uses scenario analysis and focuses on failure analysis within technical product development. The approach involves a derivation of influencing factors based on information fr…

In 2018, Republicans accidentally legalized cannabis. Now 22 AGs want them to undo it | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/4564181-2018-farm-bill-hemp-cannabis-attorneys-general/

In 2018, Republicans accidentally legalized cannabis. Now 22 AGs want them to undo it
A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address “the glaring vagueness” that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country — including sometimes from vending machines or online. A letter dated March 20 addresses the consequences of Republican lawmakers’ choice to legalize hemp production in the 2018 omnibus Farm Bill…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14181 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Grid Minors and Products
Motivated by recent developments regarding the product structure of planar graphs, we study relationships between treewidth, grid minors, and graph products. We show that the Cartesian product of any two connected $n$-vertex graphs contains an $Ω(\sqrt{n})\timesΩ(\sqrt{n})$ grid minor. This result is tight: The lexicographic product (which includes the Cartesian product as a subgraph) of a star and any $n$-vertex tree has no $ω(\sqrt{n})\timesω(\sqrt{n})$ grid minor.

Potentials of Green Coding -- Findings and Recommendations for Industry, Education and Science -- Extended Paper
Dennis JungerHTW Berlin, Max WestingUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Christopher P. FreitagHTW Berlin, Achim GuldnerUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Konstantin MittelbachHTW Berlin, Kira Oberg\"okerUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Sebastian WeberUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Stefan NaumannUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Volker WohlgemuthHTW Berlin

Potentials of Green Coding -- Findings and Recommendations for Industry, Education and Science -- Extended Paper
Progressing digitalization and increasing demand and use of software cause rises in energy- and resource consumption from information and communication technologies (ICT). This raises the issue of sustainability in ICT, which increasingly includes the sustainability of the software products themselves and the art of creating sustainable software. To this end, we conducted an analysis to gather and present existing literature on three research questions relating to the production of ecologically…

Rabbit R1 review: good price, but emblematic of a trend of selling barely finished products at full price, while vowing to fix the issues later to win a "race" (Marques Brownlee/Marques Brownlee on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTV12hErTc

Analysis: Apple hired at least 36 AI experts from Google and has created a secretive European laboratory in Zurich, to develop new AI models and products (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://t.co/Iq7BirU6xu

Apple targets Google staff to build artificial intelligence team
iPhone maker also recruits generative AI experts into secretive Zurich lab as it prepares fightback against Big Tech rivals

Sources: Apple's longtime VP in charge of acoustics Gary Geaves is stepping down, replaced by Ruchir Davé, another big shakeup in the hardware engineering group (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products
Apple Inc. shuffled leadership at the hardware team responsible for audio features on AirPods, Macs and other products, tapping a new leader for an increasingly critical business.

Sources: Apple's longtime VP in charge of acoustics Gary Geaves is stepping down, replaced by Ruchir Davé, another big shakeup in the hardware engineering group (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products
Apple Inc. shuffled leadership at the hardware team responsible for audio features on AirPods, Macs and other products, tapping a new leader for an increasingly critical business.

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are a planning a new "Stargate" US-based supercomputer that could cost $100B to power OpenAI products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-plot…

Microsoft and OpenAI Plot $100 Billion Stargate AI Supercomputer
Executives at Microsoft and OpenAI have been drawing up plans for a data center project that would contain a supercomputer with millions of specialized server chips to power OpenAI’s artificial intelligence, according to three people who have been involved in the private conversations about the ...

Filing: OpenAI asks a US federal judge to dismiss parts of NYT's copyright suit, alleging it "paid someone to hack OpenAI's products" and violated OpenAI's TOS (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/te…

A profile of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who was just knighted, as some wonder if he can navigate Google's bureaucracy and turn AI research into great products (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/can-demis-hassabis-save-google

Can Demis Hassabis Save Google?
The DeepMind founder has a track record of insane AI breakthroughs. Can he do it within the Google mothership?

Docs: Google is paying a handful of independent publishers a five-figure sum for one year to use an unreleased suite of generative AI tools to post stories (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unreleased-gen-ai/

Google Is Paying Publishers to Test an Unreleased Gen AI Platform
Google is paying a handful of news publishers to test gen AI products.