Jordan Seidhom, a volunteer pilot, helped rescue people stranded in North Carolina due to floods. He was ordered to leave by a Lake Lure fire official, but later returned to help after a Temporary Flight Restriction was lifted.

Cartographist is a research-focused web browser with a tree-structured outline of browsing history. It saves and loads "trails" for long-term research, with features like editable history and persisting scroll position.

The automatic tests fail at 00:30 due to an Easter egg in the man command that prints "gimme gimme gimme" to stderr at 00:30. The Easter egg was removed in man-db 2.8.0 after six years of being triggered by some users.

Robert Dennard invented DRAM, a type of random-access memory, in 1968, paving the way for inexpensive and high-density memory. He also developed Dennard scaling, a theory that predicts transistor power consumption remains constant as transistors get smaller.

Researchers revisited traditional RNNs (LSTMs and GRUs) to improve training efficiency by removing hidden state dependencies. This led to the creation of minimal versions (minLSTMs and minGRUs) that are faster and comparable in performance to recent sequence models.

Wang Yuanlu, a Daoist monk, discovered a hidden chamber in the Grottoes of Unparalleled Height in 1900 containing 60,000 manuscripts, mostly Buddhist texts, that had been sealed for 900 years. The manuscripts reveal the lives of long-distance travellers on the Silk Road, including diplomatic envoys who exchanged luxury goods and gifts between Eurasian kingdoms.

Cloudflare defeated patent troll Sable IP in a five-day jury trial, with the jury finding that Cloudflare did not infringe on Sable's patent and that the claim is invalid. Cloudflare won the case and Sable agreed to pay $225,000 and dedicate its entire patent portfolio to the public.

ChatGPT introduces Canvas, a new interface for collaborative writing and coding projects, allowing users to work side by side with ChatGPT. Canvas offers a new way of working together, with features like inline feedback and suggestions, and is available to ChatGPT Plus and Team users.

YC backed PearAI faced criticism for its open source approach, particularly forking Continue. The issue was resolved after PearAI apologized and corrected its mistakes with help from Continue's founders.

A Go program is experiencing a panic due to a closed channel, caused by a goroutine being cancelled when the main function terminates. This issue can be fixed by using WaitGroups to wait for all goroutines to complete before exiting the main function.

IR-2024-258, Oct. 3, 2024 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that Direct File will be available for the 2025 tax filing season in double the number of states than last year’s pilot, and it will cover a wider range of tax situations, greatly expanding the number of taxpayers eligible to use the free e-filing service.

Stefano Marinelli, founder of BSD Cafe, shares his experience migrating clients from Linux to BSDs, citing improved stability and reliability. He now manages 78% of hypervisors on FreeBSD and 66% of workloads on BSDs, with positive client feedback.

The author praises Unix for its programmability, allowing users to easily extend the system by writing shell scripts and combining existing programs, and argues that this synergy is a key factor in its productivity and flexibility. However, the author also identifies several shortcomings in Unix, including its outdated file system, terminal, and permission system, and suggests that evolving ...

Aqua Nautilus researchers discovered a Linux malware called "perfctl" that targets and exploits Linux servers by seeking over 20,000 types of misconfigurations, and it uses sophisticated techniques to evade detection and maintain persistence. The malware can be detected by looking for unusual spikes in CPU usage, inspecting suspicious binaries in /tmp, /usr, and /root directories, and ...

DOSBox-X is a DOS emulator that goes beyond running DOS games, also supporting Windows 3.x, 9x, and ME emulation. It aims to be a complete emulation package for pre-2000 DOS and Windows 9x based systems.

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The project aims to create a simple, fully featured mobile phone with enhanced privacy. It uses various audio components and a central MCU OS for basic phone functionality.

Designing forms and databases for the Web that accommodate diverse personal name styles from around the world is crucial to avoid confusion and errors. To achieve this, consider using flexible input fields, avoiding assumptions about name syntax and structure, and allowing users to enter names in their native script or a Latin-only transcription.

The UK will hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after over half a century, including the US military base on Diego Garcia. The deal aims to address past wrongs and ensure the islands' future, with the UK providing financial support and the US continuing to operate the base.

In a blog post, Mullenweg said the package offered $30,000 or six months of salary, whichever is higher, but the employees who took it would not be eligible to be re-hired by Automattic. Nearly 80% of people who took the offer worked in the company’s Ecosystem / WordPress division, and the rest were in Automattic’s Cosmos businesses, consisting of apps like Pocket Casts, Day One, Tumblr and ...

Erik Naggum explains why Scheme has cons cells, which are pairs of pointers, to implement lists. This design is brilliant and allows for constant time operations.

FLUX1.1 [pro] improves image quality, speed, and efficiency with faster generation times and reduced latency. It surpasses other models on the leaderboard with the highest overall Elo score.

Intel's Lunar Lake chip features a new E-Core architecture called Skymont, which replaces Crestmont in Meteor Lake. Skymont boosts multithreaded performance and handles low priority background tasks with improved power efficiency.

The user describes a model called "interviewing for evidence" which involves gathering four types of evidence: experiential, hypothetical, opinion, and credential to make informed hiring decisions. This approach helps to reduce subjectivity and inconsistency in the hiring process, making it more defensible and effective in identifying great candidates.

Mux is a video platform for developers that aims to democratize video by solving hard problems. It's a tight-knit team with experienced members from Google, YouTube, and more, backed by top investors.

A dance program for seniors increased brain volume in areas related to working memory and attention, and also increased BDNF levels, which supports neuroplasticity. This suggests that dancing may be a more effective way to counteract age-related brain decline than conventional fitness programs.

A Bevy plugin uses ratatui to render a screensaver in the terminal, starting immediately or after inactivity. It works in any shell for immediate start, but inactivity delay is currently Zsh only, setting TMOUT environment variable.

HTTrack is an offline browser utility that downloads websites to a local directory, preserving link-structure. It allows browsing the site offline, updating existing mirrors, and resuming interrupted downloads.

You used LLMs to improve outdated math course images by processing 300 images through GPT-4o and Gemini models. Gemini-1.5-Flash performed well, especially on common equations, and was used to rebuild the math equations in LaTeX for better legibility.

Missouri detected a case of H5N1 bird flu in a person with no apparent exposure to infected animals. Wastewater sequencing could help track and stifle the dairy outbreak by detecting the virus and its mutations.