Learn Prolog Now is an introductory course to Prolog programming available online since 2001 and in book form. The course aims to provide a self-contained text for beginners and emphasizes practical Prolog programming through exercises and a Prolog interpreter.
yt-dlp will require a JavaScript runtime for full YouTube support, with Deno enabled by default. Users must install a supported JS runtime and yt-dlp-ejs component for YouTube functionality.
The US penny will be discontinued after 238 years due to high production costs. Its removal is causing problems for retailers, who may face legal issues and increased costs from rounding prices to the nearest nickel.
Meta's AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to start his own AI venture focusing on "world models" that learn from visual data. His departure marks a rift within Meta's AI program as CEO Zuckerberg shifts focus to commercial AI products and large language models.
Hi HN, We’re Jamie & Dan, building JSX Tool (https://jsxtool.com) a new inspector/dev panel IDE that allows you to navigate to any line of your React project’s JSX with just a click and a command click to explore your render stack. I’ve been writing React code for nearly a decade. Since I first saw source maps in the days of Babel and Redux, I’ve always wanted to be able to edit my code ...
Tangent space is a local coordinate system that connects a surface's geometry to its texture coordinates, allowing for accurate lighting and shading in computer graphics. It's a geometric structure that emerges from a surface's parameterization, and its orientation is defined by the surface's UV coordinates, which describe how texture coordinates move across the surface.
Professor Ioannis V Yannas, a physical chemist and engineer, died at 90 after a 59-year career at MIT where he invented artificial skin for burn victims and made significant contributions to organ regeneration. His work saved thousands of lives and earned him numerous awards including induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015.
Waymo will offer robotaxi rides on freeways in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, reducing ride times by up to 50%. Riders can opt for freeway rides through the Waymo app, with the service initially available to select users.
Micro.blog allows users to host their own presence on the web with features like video hosting, automatic crossposting, and customizable plans. The platform aims to decentralize video content and provide an alternative to centralized platforms like YouTube.
Transmeta was the last big IPO of the dotcom era, launching November 7, 2000, with a $273 million IPO. The company shifted to licensing intellectual property in 2005 and was eventually sold to Novafora in 2009.
The author of NetHack 4 emphasizes flexibility and creativity in game design, allowing players to make meaningful choices and improvise solutions to problems. This approach aims to create a game that is fun for both experienced and inexperienced players, with a focus on exploration, strategy, and replayability.
Helm v4 has backward incompatible changes, but most workflows remain compatible with v3. Existing charts should continue to work, but test installation and upgrades for server-side apply changes.
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Welcome to stickertop.art Discover a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world. This project celebrates the art and culture of laptop personalization each laptop tells a story through its stickers and gives us a glimpse of the personality of the owners.
A strong X5.1 solar flare and coronal mass ejection are heading towards Earth, prompting a G4 geomagnetic storm watch. The CME may cause aurora visibility in northern France, Germany, and the US as far south as Nevada and Arkansas.
Andrew Rossignol successfully ran a modern AI model on a 2005 PowerBook G4 with 1GB RAM and a 32-bit processor. He achieved a modest improvement in performance by leveraging the PowerPC's vector processing extension, AltiVec.
Chocolate prices have skyrocketed due to climate change, supply chain issues, and high demand, prompting companies to reduce cocoa content or find alternatives. However, this shift raises concerns about the livelihoods of small-scale cocoa farmers and the need for sustainable solutions to support them.
Bluetooth 6.2 adds features for faster responsiveness, improved security, and better communication, especially for USB Bluetooth LE audio applications. It includes shorter connection intervals, enhanced security against RF attacks, and a new Bulk Serialization Mode.
The fungus, which has been found on Chernobyl's Reactor 4, has adapted to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy.
I’ve been using CI/CD pipelines for years now - GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, you name it. Like most developers, I treated them as configuration files that “just work.” You write a YAML file, push it, and somehow your code gets built, tested, and deployed. But I never really understood what was happening behind the scenes. That changed when I needed to set up CI/CD for an air-gapped ...
The NTP Project develops and maintains the NTP protocol for synchronizing computer clocks over networks. It produces open source reference implementations and documentation for various applications.
The City of London's Roman Wall can be seen in various unusual locations, including a Tube platform, a hotel car port, a cafe, and a car park. These spots offer unique views of the ancient wall, often juxtaposed with modern surroundings.
The user had their blood pressure tested at a pharmacy using a Microlife WatchBP O3 device and then attempted to reverse-engineer the data using Wireshark and Python. They successfully extracted some data but were unable to fully understand the protocol and had to return the device before completing their analysis.
Avalonia team built a MAUI backend to enable .NET MAUI apps to run on Linux, browser, and embedded devices with improved performance. This backend uses Avalonia's drawn UI model, allowing for consistent behavior across platforms and faster development cycles.
The author is recreating SimEarth 2, a planet simulation game, after 32 years of computing advances. They've made significant progress using compute shaders and Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics to simulate realistic world generation and plate tectonics.
The user discusses redesigning the terminal to improve its functionality and user experience, citing limitations of current terminal emulators and proposing a new design that integrates features like Jupyter Notebook and tmux. The user outlines a step-by-step approach to implementing this new design, starting with transactional semantics for the terminal, decoupling persistence from tmux and ...
Perkeep is an open source system for storing and accessing data across devices. It's under active development and suitable for programmers and tech-savvy users.
The guide suggests using native date and time inputs in HTML for user-friendly interfaces, as they are easy to implement and handle many important details. Complex UI, including date pickers, can lead to errors and accessibility issues, so it's best to keep it simple.
Playing Quantum Satellite generates random strings of 0s and 1s used in the Bell Inequality Violation test to measure entangled photons in space. This helps verify the existence and quality of entangled photons for a space-based quantum network.
The US Department of War has adopted Lean Methodology and pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. This transformation aims to deliver more, better, and faster capabilities, leveraging commercial technology and innovation.