The FCC voted to reinstate net neutrality rules, aiming to prevent broadband providers from blocking or slowing down competitor services. This move revives regulations repealed during Trump's presidency, signaling an ongoing partisan clash.

The article conveys that the purpose of reading books is to expand one's thinking, not just to finish them, and that the true impact of reading may be intangible and unquantifiable, as reflected by an Emerson quote. It highlights the lasting influence of education, even when specific details are forgotten.

Microsoft and IBM have released the source code for MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license and shared additional early beta binaries and documentation. This release provides insight into historic operating system development and the MS-DOS evolution.

The article details proposed regulations for U.S. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers to verify foreign customers' identities to prevent cybercrime, based on two Executive Orders. It solicits comments on the rulemaking and discusses potential impacts on privacy and security.

The article details how to use the 'canvas-confetti' library for website animation, specifying it as a client component, and highlighting various configurable options and best practices for respecting users' motion preferences. It also includes instructions for customizing confetti properties, respecting reduced motion settings, and using promises for asynchronous control.

A 16-bit Turing equivalent computer, built with a clock and NAND gates, emulates web-based utilities including a CPU and a full development stack. It showcases programs that demonstrate game development, arithmetic operations, VM escapes, and simple machine learning within its constrained system.

TSMC introduces the A16 1.6nm-class process with a unique backside power delivery network for superior performance and efficiency; set for mass production in H2 2026, it may contest Intel's 14A node.

Attributes are static strings, while properties can have different types; frameworks vary in how they set these and may alter DOM state. Some properties reflect corresponding attributes, but there are exceptions, like the value property, which reflects defaultValue instead.

G/O Media sold The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, preserving staff and location. The buyers are veterans with a passion for satire, referenced humorously in the deal's name.

This guide is about building a Wireless ISP (WISP) and covers the earliest stages of starting a WISP, including determining feasibility and connecting the first few customers. The guide provides strategies and solutions for approaching MDU owners and managers, installing and building out MDU sites, and converting residents into subscribers. It also includes a recording of a webinar ...

API design hinges on naming and modeling resources, shaping user understanding of the product. Increase applies "no abstractions" to respect advanced user knowledge, favoring industry terms and real-world events over simplified models.

The article introduces tiny-gpu, a minimal GPU implementation designed to educate on GPU hardware concepts. It includes less than 15 Verilog files, provides architecture documentation, and demonstrates simple kernels for learning purposes.

Tribler offers a privacy-focused, resilient YouTube alternative with a web-of-trust system, rewarding creators directly without intermediaries. It features a distributed ledger, aims to foster a micro-economy, and has been under development since 2005.

The article outlines Tor's history, elucidating its origins in the US Navy and evolution into a pivotal internet privacy tool, while uncovering the complex relationship between technology, culture, and politics. It reveals Tor's multifaceted community and their impact on the future of internet privacy and power dynamics.

Doctors have revealed the actual costs of a clinical trial for a TB drug, challenging the high development costs cited by pharma industries and pushing for transparency. MSF's trial shows developing new drugs can be less expensive, questioning the justification for high medicine prices.

Pieter P's guide introduces beginners to the ESP8266 Wi-Fi board, covering setup, programming, and creating web servers. It's an in-depth tutorial inclusive of networking concepts for enthusiasts.

Air Force selects Anduril and General Atomics to build drone prototypes for the next phase of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, eliminating Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. The program aims to deploy up to 1,000 drones, with production decisions expected by FY26.

The article discusses the complexities of managing concurrency in Rust's async streams and the potential suboptimality of their pipeline throughput. A visualization using Bevy is created to explore execution order and back pressure, revealing unexpected results which could impact the choice of using this API.

HashiCorp abandoned open source for a Business Source License, leading to forks like OpenTofu by the Linux Foundation, as the corporate open source model faces a significant trust crisis in 2024. As companies prioritize profits over community, a new wave of open source rebellion may be emerging.

A judge acquitted Backpage's Michael Lacey and two executives of multiple charges, finding insufficient evidence. Despite acquittals, they still face sentencing on remaining counts, including Lacey's money laundering charge and pending retrial.

Developers and coworkers struggle with balancing flow states and interruptions at work, not realizing that the nuances of achieving flow are complex and often misunderstood. Recent studies suggest internal barriers are the main disruptors of flow, advocating for mindfulness and organizational changes to enhance productivity.

Baltimore County Police arrested an ex-athletic director for using AI to impersonate a high school principal, circulating racist and antisemitic comments. The incident led to the principal's temporary removal, widespread backlash, and various other charges against the ex-director.

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming puzzle game where players fix corrupted code and unlock secrets, challenging them to optimize their solutions. It includes a manual evoking vintage computers and offers sandboxes for user-created challenges.

The article details the author's experimental project to connect an OLED display directly to a laptop's HDMI port using DDC protocol. They successfully operate the display using i2c tools and Python, bypassing traditional video drivers.

David Frankel of ZipDX has dedicated over a decade to combating the surge of over 55 billion robocalls in the U.S., employing tools like Rraptor and traceback to trace and block these calls at their source. Despite challenges with regulations and telecommunications interests, he remains hopeful for substantial reductions in robocall prevalence.

IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects seven potential tau neutrino signals, indicating astrophysical sources. Researchers used complex neural networks to sort data and distinguish neutrino flavors, despite the challenge of their similar detection patterns.

Bastien and Robin introduce Nango, a service that simplifies the integration of external APIs for SaaS applications, offering a balance between control and rapid deployment. Nango utilizes typescript lambdas to allow for easy extensibility and version control within a user's git repository.

Apple introduced OpenELM, a suite of small AI language models for on-device use, supporting research and potential future AI products. Despite limited "open source" status, Apple aims to contribute to open research with these efficient, less resource-intensive models.

The Ubuntu desktop image allows for trial usage and optional installation, needing at least 1024MiB of RAM; server and netboot images are available for permanent, non-GUI installs. Choose AMD64 versions for compatible computers.

Japan's SLIM lander has unexpectedly survived three lunar nights, continuing to function and take pictures despite malfunctions in some electronics and lack of heaters. It was designed for a much shorter mission and its endurance has surpassed all expectations.

Alphabet reported strong Q1 2024 performance, with revenue up 15% to $80.5 billion, driven by Search, YouTube, and Cloud. The company initiated a dividend program and approved a $70 billion stock repurchase.

Surveys reveal public opposition to the 2017 net neutrality repeal, but the industry used fake comments to feign support. New York's AG found 18 million of 22 million FCC comments were fake, leading to penalties and reforms for involved marketing firms.

Market Village, once located next to Pacific Mall in Toronto, is now a memory with digital remnants online like photos and reviews, but the site itself is a gravel field with no physical mall present. The future of the space remains uncertain, with speculation about residential developments replacing the planned mall.

NASA engineers have partly fixed Voyager 1's computer, regaining data communication after months of troubleshooting. They pinpointed a faulty memory chip and recoded the Flight Data Subsystem to resume normal operations.

The article reflects on how smartphones have replaced gadgets like PDAs, highlighting the evolution of Palm OS devices and their influence on current technology. It recounts Jeff Hawkins' journey from creating the successful GriDPad to the troubled development of the Zoomer PDA.

Despite never having smoked, Aurora Lucas was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer, highlighting a rise in lung cancer cases among nonsmoking Asian American women. Researchers are now investigating potential genetic and environmental risk factors, aiming to improve screening guidelines for this group.

The software engineer cum part-time machine learning enthusiast shares their first-time experience dealing with large language models, particularly training llamas with DeepSpeed and Huggingface's accelerate tool. They also delve into the technicality of LoRA and quantization for memory efficiency.

Andres Freund revealed a sophisticated backdoor, with obfuscated strings and anti-debugging features, making analysis challenging. The backdoor parses sshd logs to extract usernames and IPs.

The article describes Amazon's search for specialists in various science and technology fields to solve complex problems and innovate across their EU and global operations. Roles include Senior Economist and Applied Scientist, with responsibilities for driving system-level changes, integrating ML solutions, and building personalized customer experiences.

Boeing's union accuses the company of retaliating against engineers for upholding safety over cost concerns, impacting their careers. Despite Boeing's denial of such actions, the union is challenging the negative performance reviews through official channels.

The FCC reinstated Obama-era net neutrality rules with a 3-2 vote, prohibiting ISPs from blocking, throttling, or prioritizing content. Facing opposition from ISPs and lobby groups, these rules will likely spur a court battle over the FCC's authority.

The article details the early challenges of musical hardware compatibility issues in the '80s and the development of MIDI by synth pioneer Dave Smith and others to standardize music technology across different devices. Despite initial resistance, MIDI revolutionized music production, enabling cross-brand integration and more accessible music composition.

The article asserts that Google's March 2019 core update may have reversed previous updates, a claim denied by Google despite evidence suggesting otherwise. Internal emails also indicate an overlap between the ads and search teams, challenging Google's assertion of the organic search's independence.

Stripe is now allowing businesses to use its financial services without being payment customers and is introducing AI and new embedded finance features. The company revealed these changes at its developer event, planning to launch over 50 new platform features.

The article advises to log in with developer credentials when running a script or app, and to use a unique and descriptive User-Agent. It also suggests reverting to the default User-Agent or contacting support if there are access issues.

The author reflects on their experience training generative models at OpenAI, conveying that these models are adept at approximating datasets and eventually all converge to similar outputs, emphasizing that data, not model intricacies, dictate behavior.

A project enables Crystal methods in Ruby, which runs faster after fixing Ruby's inefficiency and enabling YJIT, surpassing Crystal's speed.

The article discusses the complexity of implementing a clean, reusable authorization system in microservices and introduces 'Polar', a logic language for authorization that works across multiple data stores without requiring data synchronization. It leverages SQL for performance and enables efficient, centralized authorization decisions.

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The article presents an advancement in knowledge graph embeddings by introducing quaternion representations for entities and rotations in four-dimensional space for relations, capturing complex inter-dependencies and providing more degrees of freedom. This method outperforms existing benchmarks in knowledge graph completion tasks.

Nintendo issued a takedown for all their content in Garry's Mod on Steam, which has been verified by the creator. The game, a fixture since 2006, has a vast collection of user-made content, now impacted by the takedown.

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Australian intelligence and police chiefs urge social networks to assist in investigations involving terrorism and other crimes, citing challenges posed by encryption. They emphasize the need for "accountable encryption" and cooperation from tech companies to uphold laws and public safety.

Use semantic search across millions of medical papers

The author enjoys working on various Python projects and writing about them but is dissatisfied with Substack's evolution into a more social media-like platform, prompting a move to Ghost, an open source-based platform. Ghost offers stability and alignment with the author's goals without the pressures and divisiveness that Substack has come to represent.

This article provides detailed instructions and tips for deburring chime tubes, selecting materials and patterns for top support disks, strikers, and wind sails for wind chimes. It also suggests methods for hanging, aligning chimes, and finishing with a UV protective coat for durability.

The article recounts the author's discovery of JavaScript code being injected into every webpage accessed through a hotel's WiFi, which was intended for ad injection. It was later revealed that the hotel's ISP was using a device specifically for this purpose, which Marriott stated it did not condone.

The US Air Force selected Anduril to advance in the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program for designing and testing CCAs. Anduril commits to transform defense with autonomy, at speed and scale, and embraces this significant partnership with the Air Force.

The author's muscle memory for typing is impaired due to a brain injury, prompting them to learn emacs more gradually, possibly through a game or typing tutor. Despite years of vim use, they haven't found similar resources for emacs and are hesitant to mix methods.

pg_dump and pg_restore are essential for Postgres database backup and restore, but their single-threaded nature at the table level makes them slow for large databases. Parallel Snapshotting, used in PeerDB, significantly speeds up these processes by enabling multi-threading at the table level.

AI cameras on LA Metro buses will enforce parking rules starting summer 2024, after public outreach and a warning period. Hayden AI's technology aims to improve bus services and accessibility by ticketing vehicles in bus lanes.

A Forbes article describes DRAMs as interchangeable, highlighting market volatility and the need for hedging through forwards and futures. Attempts to establish a DRAM futures market have failed due to challenges like the unit-of-sale problem, liquidity, and regulatory hurdles.

The Tribler research group at Delft University of Technology has introduced a proof of concept for AI-powered, decentralized search for peer-to-peer content, aiming to empower users over corporations. Despite its potential, the technology is in early stages and doesn't yet offer major advantages over existing tools.

While yarn and pnpm have emerged as new package managers, the npm registry has hardly evolved, not matching JavaScript's progress. JSR is introduced to revolutionize distribution for JavaScript/TypeScript, focusing on ease of use and integration, while improving security and encouraging best practices.

Florida's "pay-to-stay" law charges former inmates $50 a day for their prison stay, leading to large debts that hinder their reintegration, as exemplified by Shelby Hoffman's story, who faces a debt despite her rehabilitation efforts. This law can also result in multiple charges for the same prison bed, which critics and affected individuals argue is unconstitutional and a significant barrier ...

Harvard researchers developed a metafluid enabling a sensorless hydraulic gripper to handle delicate items, using simple materials like oil and rubber balls. They created a programmable response to pressure by testing various sphere sizes and mediums.

40th Anniversary Discussion Watch our chat with David Clark and other former BMB Compuscience employees about the history of the game.

Machine learning advancements can greatly hasten animal call identification; with some effort and programming know-how, one can create a model to classify calls efficiently. An existing solution, BirdNET, may suffice, but custom models can be tailored for specific needs.

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Windows 11's latest update includes ads in the Start Menu's recommended section, which users can disable. The quick implementation after the beta test may frustrate customers who expect an ad-free experience.

Başak Tuna's DayLight Computer uses environmental light instead of internal LEDs, questioning the omnipresence of artificial light in our lives and how it shapes our interaction with digital networks. The project also explores how light governs our routines and redefines space, especially in a post-pandemic world where devices are central.

The article outlines Ibn Tufail's "Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān," a philosophical novel inspiring Islamic and Enlightenment thought, and is highly influential in European literature and philosophy. It explores themes of knowledge through self-discovery and nature's role in understanding creation.

The EPA's new rule demands coal and natural gas power plants to limit emissions or close, aiming to cut carbon pollution significantly and boost public health, but faces potential legal challenges. Environmentalists praise the move, while opponents criticize the potential impact on grid reliability and energy sectors.

Margaret Macdonald contends that philosophical theories resemble stories or art more than scientific explanations, suggesting temperamental differences shape these theories. Her work, central to British analytic philosophy, challenges the view that good philosophy must be empirically testable.

The article introduces Nix and nix-darwin as tools for configuring macOS systems declaratively, similar to NixOS, but acknowledges the learning curve for beginners. It guides readers on setting up Nix with a macOS system, gradually building a configuration file to manage system-level packages.

The article details how to use QEMU monitor console commands to interact with a running virtual machine, including managing memory, inputs, and snapshots. Access methods vary based on display devices and whether the VM is launched with libvirt or directly.

The author critiques an argument used by AI optimists which equates past unfounded fears (like overpopulation) with AI safety concerns, noting its flawed logic. They discuss the importance of humility in prediction and the perils of relying on a sole historical precedent.

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The article describes a personal project where the author builds conversational bots in Go and Rust to debate programming languages, learning about advanced concepts and API integrations. They encounter challenges, like message transport, which they solve with NATS JetStream and develop TTS client libraries.

SoundSeer is a macOS menu bar app that shows your currently playing song, and allows you to skip a track, click straight to the song/artist/album, and copy the URL for sharing. Please file an issue with any feedback (even a thank you!). You can also email the author at: his firstname [at] lastname [dot] net.

The FCC voted to restore net neutrality rules, reclassifying ISPs under Title II to prevent content discrimination, but won't regulate prices. States have their own rules, while the agency updates justifications for oversight and security.

Facepunch Studios is removing decades of Nintendo-related items from Garry's Mod after allegations of fake DMCA claims; it's now verified by Nintendo as legitimate. The studio is working through 20 years of uploads and encourages users to delete their own Nintendo-related content.

The article explores the life and triumphs of Penelope Fitzgerald, lauding her as a literary genius who wrote some of the 20th century's great fiction, despite starting her career late. It delves into the complex reasons behind her late blooming, intertwining her personal challenges and the depth of experiences that shaped her critically acclaimed work.

Meta's Nimble is a new columnar file format for vast datasets, aiming to replace Apache Parquet and ORC, optimized for wide workloads, extensibility, parallel processing, and unified use. Currently, it's in development with no stability guarantees and supports several dependencies for its compilation.

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The paper introduces a weakly supervised pre-training approach for vision models that accelerates training by 2.7 times while preserving quality. It bypasses pairwise computational challenges in contrastive learning by treating pre-training as a classification task.

Amazon aggressively undercut Diapers.com's prices, driving them into a forced sale, and Marc Lore, Diapers' founder, harbors resentment leading him to Walmart. Dana Mattioli's book suggests Amazon's unethical practices, though lacks decisive evidence, and portrays FTC chair Lina Khan's aim to challenge the company's legal boundaries.

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The article discusses the issue of unwanted political text messages and emails, suggesting the best way to stop them is to consistently inform the sender they have the wrong number. It mentions that data brokers might remove bad data slower as lists are reused and sold, and that using message filtering apps and reporting to authorities may help.

The author criticizes the tendency in software to replace old, functioning tools with newer, underperforming ones, using Wayland's failure to match X11's performance as an example. Despite Wayland's improvements, the author finds it still falls short and opts to stick with X11 for reliability.

The author detailed their experience in building an AI bot for the game 'Slay the Spire', utilizing Amazon Q to understand and update an old codebase, and generate necessary functions for the bot's development. Despite challenges and the bot's initial failure, the author improved the code and achieved progress, inviting others to enhance the project further.

Hugo praises Meegle's flexible node settings for enhancing product development and stakeholder engagement, with applications across various sectors. Meegle has significantly boosted LIZHI's R&D efficiency and helped Mediastorm achieve a high video production milestone.

The author outlines key software development principles: avoid multiple sources of truth to prevent sync issues, and resist over-abstraction to keep code maintainable. They advocate for cautious use of mocks in testing for higher reliability.

The Justice Department is probing McKinsey for aiding drug companies in boosting opioid sales; McKinsey previously settled similar claims for $1 billion without admitting fault. This criminal investigation, reported by officials under anonymity, looks into potential obstruction of justice regarding McKinsey's opioid-related advice.

Throwflame announces the sale of the Thermonator, the first robot dog with a flamethrower, priced at $9,420, featuring a 30-foot range and remote control capabilities. Despite potential uses in various fields, its safety is under scrutiny due to inherent risks.

Sound in software design is often undervalued and poorly executed, yet when designed well, it enhances user experience by communicating actions, adding materiality, and creating immersion. Good sound design requires variation, thoughtful layering, and user control options to avoid being intrusive.

Researchers found that certain oils mix with water without needing surfactants, creating stable emulsions that could revolutionize industries by producing eco-friendly materials. This breakthrough allows for the creation of biodegradable polymers that could replace conventional plastics.

The article discusses the rise of direct-style effects in programming, aiming to write natural code that retains monad benefits like composability and reasoning without actually using them. It explains the concepts using Scala 3 and addresses their implementation, control flow, and integration with other language features.

An artist reflects on negative AI influences in creative professions, advocating for human uniqueness in art and warning against AI's potential to devalue artists' work and individuality. They argue AI completion of tasks can lead to a loss of personal input and creative voice, harming long-term career prospects.

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Borges critiques Wilkins's universal language and the nature of taxonomies, highlighting their inherent arbitrariness and the complexity of capturing the universe in language. His whimsical Celestial Emporium exemplifies the randomness of classifications.

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Wilfred Owen developed a profound admiration for Siegfried Sassoon's poetry, which led to a personal meeting where Sassoon's initial condescension turned into a warmer relationship, with Sassoon critiquing and influencing Owen's work. Their friendship and mutual influence resulted in Owens's growth as a war poet, amid discussions of war experiences and poetry, reflected in famous works like ...

Carson Gross critiques Rich Harris' views on SPAs, highlighting htmx's solutions to MPA limitations and questioning the complexity of the JS ecosystem. He supports a hypermedia approach over RPC and promotes language diversity in web development.

The article discusses how rhyming phrases, like the father's alcohol-related advice, are more memorable and perceived as more credible due to the 'rhyme-as-reason effect,' although they may lack scientific accuracy. It highlights the mnemonic power of rhyme and the human bias towards favoring rhymed wisdom over non-rhymed advice.

Planetary scientists suggest new evidence for Planet 9, citing irregular movements of distant objects influenced by gravity. Their findings await further validation from the upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory.

Mozilla's llamafile project has become one of the top repositories on GitHub, with Justine Tunney leading significant improvements and the new v0.8 release. The tool enables fast, easy execution of AI models on various hardware, with advancements in CPU performance and support for GPU acceleration, including AMD's.

A Bronze Age man's teeth from Ireland revealed the first ancient Streptococcus mutans genome, showing a rise in such bacteria with modern diets rich in sugars and processed foods. The study also demonstrated a loss of genetic diversity and increased disease-causing capacity in oral microbes since industrialization.

The 2025 Toyota Camry remains true to its reputation for normalcy but shifts all models to a hybrid drivetrain, with a more refined ride and no V6 or TRD options. It features a revamped design with a balance of old and new, and offers high fuel efficiency with a sporty edge.

Birmingham City Council's failure to enable security and audit functions in its new Oracle Fusion ERP system has left it unable to determine if financial fraud occurred. The director of finance admits the lack of an audit trail means she can't assure no fraud took place.

The article critiques the excessive reliance on JavaScript by many websites and suggests that a good website should function without it, advocating for server-side code and progressive enhancement instead. It challenges the notion that JavaScript is essential, even for web applications.

The updated tiny11 builder is a versatile PowerShell script for creating a streamlined Windows 11 image, supporting all releases, languages, and architectures, and requiring the execution policy to be set to Unrestricted. It's open-source, uses Microsoft's DISM, excludes third-party tools, and allows customization, including browser choice post-installation.

A new video by SCTL Korea displays a strong full levitation effect in a room-temperature superconductor experiment, suggesting a robust Meissner effect. Despite skepticism, experimental and computational evidence supports the room-temperature superconductivity of LK99 and its variants.

Snowflake launches Arctic embed family of models, outperforming others in retrieval with fewer parameters, licensed under Apache 2.0, available soon in Snowflake Cortex and on Hugging Face. The models scale from x-small to large, with the largest model notable for surpassing performance benchmarks with only 334 million parameters.

Cornwall's Flamm project explored technology through hands-on experiences with minerals, including family mining adventures and building circuits with Cardboard Crystal Synthesisers, fostering both educational and communal engagement. The project connected historical mining practices to modern technology in interactive workshops with a focus on local heritage.

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Amazon WorkDocs has stopped allowing new user registrations and upgrades; current users must look into data migration. The service enables file storage and collaboration in the cloud with controlled access.

Stanford researchers claim AI and facial recognition can predict political orientation from neutral faces, a concept supported by differences in facial morphology between liberals and conservatives. The study suggests biometric surveillance could exploit these trait correlations, raising privacy concerns.

Goldfein discusses the challenges faced by a shrinking U.S. Air Force, which is taking on growing missions with fewer aircraft, expecting the fleet to dip below 5,000 in fiscal 2025. The Air Force struggles to balance modernization with legacy force maintenance amid budget constraints and a shift in warfare strategies.