WASHINGTON—Google is resisting efforts to surrender emails, text messages and other documents sought by state investigators probing possible anticompetitive practices, according to records and interviews. Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., also ...

"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion ...

Companies around the world are embracing what might seem like a radical idea: a four-day workweek. The concept is gaining ground in places as varied as New Zealand and Russia, and it's making inroads among some American companies. Employers ...

February 2020 What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be. But I think we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay should be useful. To start with, that means it should be ...

Instruction selection is a critical portion in compilers, as different instructions could cause significant performance differences even though the semantics not changed. Does register selection also matter to performance (assume the register selection ...

Hello HN! We’re Fitz & Malis, the founders of Freshpaint (YC S19) (https://www.freshpaint.io/). Our product is a more flexible way of setting up your analytics and marketing tools. There ’s two types of people that get the most value out of Freshpaint: ...

This section contains a complete set of video lectures on linear algebra along with transcripts and related resource files.

Google has implemented a browser capability in Chrome called ScrollToTextFragment that enables deep links to web documents, but it has done so despite unresolved privacy concerns and lack of support from other browser makers.

Albert Einstein was a refreshing counterexample to the disembodied genius. With his flaring hair, gentle eyes and quizzical smile, a distinctly embodied Einstein peers out from countless images splattered across almost every corner of contemporary culture. ...

Vim is the great white shark of text editors. It has survived among modern IDEs because of its unique philosophy. It supports modal editingwhich is almost an opposite approach to how other editors work. You start in "normal" mode where you ...

SWI Prolog has web programming capabilities. This allows one to write web applications and web services (e.g. REST API servers) in Prolog. One can argue that Prolog is not a good fit for web programming. Admittedly, this is a valid concern because of the lack of third-party libraries, and …

It’s simple: free software projects should not use Discord. (This goes equally for any sort of public interest group.) Here’s why. Discord ’s communication is not end to end (e2e) encrypted. It is encrypted only between the individual user and the ...

Jump to navigation Jump to search Mirzakhani at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, where she received her Fields Medal Maryam Mirzakhani ( Persian: مریم میرزاخانی‎, [mæɾˈjæm miːɾzɑːxɑːˈniː]; 12 May 1977 –14 July 2017) ...

Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you ...

I rarely get the chance to try out words of wisdom on real people before I present them to you here. So when I post something, it might turn out to be a dud, or pure gold, and I never know which. Not this time! This time you get pure, unadulterated, ...

Hi, I’m the perplexed owner of an AMD Threadripper 3970X CPU on a GIGABYTE TRX40 Aorus Xtreme motherboard. I’m writing this thread as a kind of followup/answer to @DerAlbi’s post here (“3970X - Prime95 stability?”) and to my own thread over at Reddit (“Prime95 errors with AMD Threadripper...

At Germany's Bambi Awards for the media industry in November, celebrities posed for red-carpet photos against a backdrop of established luxury brands. Alongside the likes of Mercedes-Benz and Swiss watchmaker Chopard was a newer name: IQOS, a "reduced risk" heated-tobacco device sold by...

Over the last couple of decades we've seen a growing gap between database-oriented software developers and in-memory application software developers. This leads to many disputes about how to use database features such as SQL and stored procedures. ...

The police report would have baffled the most grizzled detective. A famous writer murdered in a South Dakota restaurant full of diners; the murder weapon –a simple hug. A murderer with no motive, and one who seemed genuinely distraught at what he had ...

The US state of Maine is violating internet broadband providers' free speech by forcing them to ask for their customers’ permission to sell their browser history, according to a new lawsuit.

I ‘m going to share an (ab)use of a Windows feature which can result in bypassing User Group Policy (as well as a few other interesting things). Bypassing User Group Policy is not the end of the world, but it ’s also not something that should be allowed ...

During a previous hackday, I had the opportunity to try a fairly recent programming language called ReasonML. Amazed by the simplicity and power of ReasonML, I promised myself to get closer to its underlying language to give credit where it is due. Do ...

This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing. Mount a ...

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The social media conversation over the climate crisis is being reshaped by an army of automated Twitter bots, with a new analysis finding that a quarter of all tweets about climate on an average day are produced by bots, the Guardian can reveal.

Where does the mind end and the world begin? Is the mind locked inside its skull, sealed in with skin, or does it expand outward, merging with things and places and other minds that it thinks with? What if there are objects outside —a pen and paper, a ...

Greek Speaker of the House Constantine Tassoulas rebuked MeRA25 leader and ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Friday for handing an envelope over to him containing a USB of the conversations he had secretly recorded while attending a Eurogroup discussion ...

posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, the January 2018 report, the report at Scheme Workshop 2018, the January 2019 report, the ICFP experience report, an...

For decades, discovering novel antibiotics meant digging through the same patch of dirt. Biologists spent countless hours screening soil-dwelling microbes for properties known to kill harmful bacteria. But as superbugs resistant to existing antibiotics ...