NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is fully operational again after a fix was implemented to resolve issues with its science instruments. The spacecraft, 46 years old, is now sending usable data back to Earth after a successful repair and maintenance process.

The user blocked AI bots on their server, but Perplexity still accessed their site, ignoring robots.txt and not sending the correct user agent. The user discovered that Perplexity uses headless browsers to scrape content, making it difficult to block their IP ranges.

ESASky is an application that allows you to visualise and download public astronomical data from space-based missions.

Canal+ took French courts to block pirate sports streaming sites, and ISPs were ordered to block access. The court also ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to block access to the sites, citing a French law allowing rightsholders to demand measures to prevent piracy.

This book focuses on risk-driven architecting, teaching developers how to design and build software systems by identifying and prioritizing risks, selecting and applying design and architecture techniques, and evaluating risk reduction. The book provides practical advice on software architecture, emphasizing the importance of abstraction, models, and encapsulation, and offers a comprehensive ...

The user has been testing Tesla's full self-driving (FSD) system, which they received as a free trial, and has experienced several mistakes, including incorrect turns and ignoring red lights. They conclude that the system is not yet reliable and requires constant monitoring, making it more of a "fancy technology demo" than a practical driving aid.

The author reflects on their journey to create a sustainable business through their newsletter, realizing that people transact when they fear losing out on value rather than when benefits exceed price. They aim to apply this lesson to corporate sales, focusing on communicating what companies are missing out on by not improving their software design.

The author discusses the puzzle game Baba is You, which challenges players to think creatively and break mental categories, and highlights its potential applications in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. The author also references various philosophical and scientific concepts, including the nature of reality, the relationship between objects and messages, and the ...

Yifeng Chen, assistant vice president of technology at Trina Solar, has led the company's R&D group to set over two dozen world records for solar power efficiency and output. Chen's team is working to improve solar panel efficiency, with a goal of trapping more sunlight and increasing energy output.

In 2012, Google engineers Rob Pike and Russ Cox proposed reformatting every Bazel BUILD file in the codebase and enforcing it with a presubmit script, leading to the development of Buildifier, a code formatter. The rollout of Buildifier was successful, bringing uniformity to the codebase and making large-scale changes easier to perform.

The article mocks readers who don't finish articles, warning that they'll be left behind in the dark about current events. It encourages readers to subscribe to support the writers and keep the site ad-free.

Impulse Tracker's source code includes sound drivers, network drivers, and documentation, with a separate folder for internal documentation. The code was originally written for 8086 machines, but was later updated to remove restrictions on conditional jumps.

Contribute to meliharvey/threescaper development by creating an account on GitHub.

The user bought a restaurant pager system and reverse-engineered its protocol, successfully demodulating and modulating the signals to control the pagers. The user found the protocol to be relatively simple and fun to hack, and encourages others to try it out with their own low-cost SDR and pagers.

Dr. Joseph Cotter and his team at Imperial College London are developing a quantum compass to accurately pinpoint locations without relying on GPS signals, which can be vulnerable to interference. The team is testing their device on the London Underground, using lasers to cool rubidium atoms to near absolute zero to measure the device's movement and location.

A friend is a skilled programmer, and a coworker has a title "social media guru". A font, Sans Bullshit Sans, uses ligatures to turn marketing jargon into visual representations.

Electric bike owners are complaining about frequent motor replacements, with some needing up to five replacements in two years, mainly due to water damage and poor design. The problem is exacerbated by the lack of repairable parts and manufacturers' high replacement costs, leading some owners to consider switching back to conventional bikes.

The user promotes two announcements: a list of AI in Mathematics resources and the Erdős Problems website, which needs contributors and editors. The user also expresses concerns about the over-reliance on AI, citing its limitations and potential negative social implications, including mass automation and isolation.

Xavier, a new employee, learns about Address Sanitizer (ASan), a tool that detects memory errors in C/C++ programs, and how it works by modifying the memory allocation and instrumentation of the program. ASan uses a Shadow Memory to track memory access and can detect various types of memory errors, including stack buffer overflows and underflows.

SYZYGY enables rapid prototyping and testing by combining low-speed PMOD devices with high-performance FMC peripherals. The SYZYGY standard fills a gap between these two, offering a "sweet spot" for interface performance and pin count.

SQLite is likely the most widely deployed software library, with over one trillion databases in active use, due to its extensive use in smartphones and other devices. It is often statically linked, resulting in multiple instances per machine, making it a strong contender for the title of most widely deployed software component.

vvvv is a visual-first live programming environment for the .NET ecosystem, allowing for fast and flexible development with hot-reload technology. It has a wide range of applications, from interactive installations to live shows, and is used by a global community with a caring support system.

The author discusses optimizing the performance of a language model (LLM) for a smart home voice assistant, focusing on reducing the prefill latency caused by large context sizes. They propose using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to augment LLM prompts with external sources, reducing the context length and improving scalability.

Perfectionism can be a flaw when it prioritizes precision over timeliness and resource management. Triage efforts to balance quality and timeliness, considering the impact on the overall goal.

Get up and running with Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma, and other large language models. - Release v0.1.45-rc1: Merge pull request #5037 from dhiltgen/faster_win_build · ollama/ollama

SQLite's default configuration is not suitable for production use, but tweaking settings like WAL journal_mode and enabling immediate transactions can improve concurrency and performance. Additional settings like mmap_size, journal_size_limit, and cache_size can also be adjusted to optimize SQLite performance for small to medium-sized websites.

Good code is rarely read because it is so well-designed and intuitive that developers can use it without needing to read through it extensively. The goal of good coding practices is to create code that is so clear and easy to use that it almost disappears, allowing developers to focus on building features and solving problems.

The PaperTapeReader is a DIY project that allows for fully automated playback of 8-bit paper tapes using an Atmega328p microprocessor and a motor to control the tape speed. The reader head uses miniature photo-transistors and IR LEDs to read the tape data, which can be sent to a computer or terminal via serial connection.

Southwest Airlines Flight 2786 plunged towards the ocean off Hawaii's Kauai island on April 11, with a "newer" first officer mistakenly pushing the control column forward. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident, which occurred while the plane was attempting to land in bad weather.

Configure KEYBOARD_EVENT_PATH in Makefile. It should be of the pattern /dev/input/eventX. X will be different for your system. You can use evtest to find out your keyboard device path.

Ernest Shackleton's ship, Quest, was found 1,280 feet below the surface of the northwest Atlantic Ocean, roughly 15 nautical miles off the coast of Labrador, after a five-day search. The ship, which sank in 1962, is now considered a part of Canadian cultural heritage and researchers hope to return to the site to take photos of the wreck with remotely operated underwater vehicles.

Arrow's Theorem states that a voting process cannot simultaneously satisfy Pareto Efficiency and Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, while the Chichilnisky Theorem extends this to the continuous setting, showing that voting is inherently difficult to get right. The theorems demonstrate that even in continuous settings, voting systems face inherent limitations and contradictions.

The `ls` command has limitations when dealing with filenames containing special characters, newlines, or whitespace, making it unreliable for parsing filenames. To overcome these issues, alternative methods such as using `find` or `perl` can be employed, and parsing the output of `ls` should be avoided whenever possible.

Researchers tested GPT-4 on a new benchmark, ByteSized32-State-Prediction, to evaluate its ability to simulate text-based worlds. Despite its impressive performance, GPT-4 was found to be an unreliable world simulator, highlighting the need for further innovations in language models.

Scientists have discovered a well-preserved skull of the giant flightless bird Genyornis newtoni, which lived in ancient Australia over 45,000 years ago. The new findings reveal that Genyornis was a giant goose-like bird with a strong bite force and adaptations for aquatic habitats, but its extinction was likely due to a combination of climate change and human arrival.

What happened? Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I'm appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/cryptsetup https://github.com/vent...

The input is a large block of CSS code that defines various styles, patterns, and animations using various CSS properties and functions, including gradients, patterns, and SVG shapes. The code appears to be a collection of experimental and creative CSS code snippets that demonstrate various visual effects and techniques.

Japan's finance ministry unveiled new banknote designs featuring famous Japanese figures, including Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" on the 1,000-yen bill. The new designs also feature advanced anti-counterfeiting measures, including watermarks and 3D holograms, and will be introduced in 2024.

A recent data breach by Tile, a wallet-finding platform, exposed millions of people's personal information, including names, addresses, and phone numbers. The company's statement downplayed the severity of the breach, emphasizing that credit card numbers were not disclosed, but the author argues that this is part of a standard playbook to minimize the impact of the breach.

Diff and patch are essential tools for collaboration and open collaboration, enabling developers to work together seamlessly. Without them, collaboration is difficult and often impossible, leading to a lack of community and mutual discovery.

The article provides an introduction to the Odin programming language, covering its syntax, data types, control structures, and memory management. It also discusses Odin's features, such as its type system, generics, and memory management, and provides examples of how to use them.

Carbon dioxide removal methods capture and store CO₂ from the atmosphere, with novel methods growing rapidly but still making up less than 1% of total removal. Scaling up conventional and novel methods is urgent to meet the Paris Agreement's temperature goal, alongside rapidly reducing emissions.

A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a web address that provides the location of resources on the internet, while a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is a string of characters that identifies a specific resource. A URN (Uniform Resource Name) is a type of URI that identifies a resource in a persistent manner, without providing information on how to locate it.

A Tesla in self-driving mode crashed into a parked police car in Fullerton, California, causing major damage, but the officer was not injured. The Tesla driver admitted to being on their phone at the time of the crash, and the incident highlights the importance of driver attention in autonomous driving modes.

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The user created an extension, HouseFresh, to block popular media brands from dominating Google search results, even if their content is low-quality. The extension is available for installation and can be customized by modifying a text file and loading the repository folder in Chrome extensions.

Mississippi Today is appealing a court order that threatens the constitutional rights and privacy of journalists and citizens, citing the First Amendment protection of reporter's privilege. The appeal aims to guarantee these critical rights for the first time in Mississippi's history, or establish a dangerous precedent for journalists and the public.

The user is searching for a manual titled "Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics" for IBM PC Logo, which is no longer easily available. The user found a reference to this manual in the Atari LCSI Logo documentation, but cannot find a copy of the IBM version.

The author built an oxygen concentrator using an Arduino-based controller and DIN rail modules to control solenoid valves, and successfully tested the system by burning a piece of paper and producing a blue flame with an oxy-fuel torch. The system uses a zeolite-based PSA cycle to produce oxygen-enriched air, and the author plans to add sensors and safety features in the future.

Radiopharmaceuticals, also known as targeted radiopharmaceuticals, are a new class of cancer treatments that use radioactive isotopes to target and kill cancer cells, offering a more precise and effective way to treat various types of cancer. With the recent surge in investment and innovation in the field, radiopharmaceuticals are poised to revolutionize cancer treatment, offering a new wave ...

Rickrolling has spread from internet forums to academic literature, with 23 intentional rickrollings found in footnotes, code, and references. This research suggests academic pranks and humor are healthy for good science and calls for more investigations.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's acceptance of his paralysis and ability to adapt to life's hassles is a valuable skill, often overlooked. Recognizing the importance of accepting a degree of hassle and nonsense, as well as respecting luck and risk, can help individuals navigate life's challenges and learn from real-world feedback.

The author discusses the non-state societies of ancient Gaul, Celtiberia, and Germany, highlighting their governance structures, which were characterized by aristocratic networks and personal power, rather than centralized institutions. The author argues that these societies were not states, as they lacked a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force, with individual aristocrats and ...

You found an Acorn Computer Systems catalogue from around 1983, covering the BBC Micro era and up to the System 5 release. The catalogue features Eurocard-based systems, allowing users to design custom systems for their needs, including Prestel/Teletext handling.

Amazon created a workaround to collect GitHub data by having employees create multiple accounts and share access credentials to expedite AI training, raising ethical concerns about data privacy and permission. The company aims to leverage GitHub data to innovate faster, catch up with rivals, and create smarter technologies, but the approach raises questions about user privacy, data ownership, ...

A laboratory accident with a laser led to the development of bladeless LASIK surgery, which has helped over 30 million people overcome vision problems. The technology was developed by a team of scientists at the University of Michigan, with funding from the National Science Foundation, and has since been commercialized and used globally.

North Dakota voters approved a ballot measure limiting congressional candidates to those under 81 years old, but experts consider it unconstitutional and likely to be challenged in court. The measure's fate will depend on who has standing to bring a claim, with potential challenges coming from barred candidates or political parties seeking to nominate older candidates.

The number of CS grads who don’t even know basic git commands is astounding

Probability and queueing problems require humility and care, as they can be deceivingly difficult. Simulations are a valuable tool for understanding and solving these problems, as they can provide a more accurate and reliable result than relying on intuition or complex mathematical formulas.

The editors of The Bombay Literary Magazine discuss the beauty of algorithms and code, exploring the intersection of art and programming, and questioning whether an algorithm can be considered beautiful in the same way as a poem. They examine the creative process of programming, the beauty of code, and the human condition, highlighting the work of various programmers and computing veterans ...

Huawei's founder, Ren, uses military metaphors to describe the company's struggles with the US, citing over a decade of attacks and restrictions. The US has accused Huawei of espionage and violating sanctions, leading to a ban on American firms doing business with Huawei and restrictions on foreign firms using American technology.

Apple introduced the T1 chip in 2016, handling biometric data and protecting Apple Pay, marking the first step towards Apple silicon Macs. The T2 chip, introduced in 2017, featured a Secure Enclave with its own operating system, handling secrets and encryption, and has been used in subsequent Intel Macs and all M-series chips.

Stanford Internet Observatory is being reimagined with new management and reduced staff after the departure of research director Renee DiResta, amid conservative legal challenges to its online speech moderation efforts. The organization will continue to focus on child safety and other online dangers, but will no longer prioritize election misinformation.

The sociology of mental illness has a long history, with early sociologists like Durkheim and Park studying mental illness and its social implications. Sociologists have continued to study mental illness, exploring topics like deinstitutionalization, the rise of psychopharmacology, and the impact of societal reactions on mental health.

The user attended Google I/O and discussed the benefits of the Go programming language, including concurrency, IDE integrations, and built-in features like profiling, testing, and debugging. The user highlighted the language's modern features, such as profile-guided optimization, runtime tracing, and self-tuning garbage collection, which make it an attractive choice for software development.

A 3,000-year-old settlement in Cambridgeshire, dubbed Britain's Pompeii, was discovered with well-preserved artefacts, revealing a sophisticated Bronze Age community with advanced technology and trading networks. The excavation uncovered a wealth of information about daily life, including cooking areas, storage, and even the presence of parasites and diseases, offering a unique glimpse into ...

The author discusses using a rotary phone from the 1960s with modern VoIP technology, highlighting two devices that convert pulse tone dialing to DTMF: the DialGizmo and the GrandStream HT502. The author also mentions a homebrew project, the PicBasic 141101 pulse to tone converter, which can be built into the rotary phone, but opted for the more convenient DialGizmo.

The author argues that mediocrity is not just a lack of excellence, but a deliberate strategy for survival and success in a changing environment. Mediocrity is not about being average or mediocre, but about being mediocre in a way that allows for flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to thrive in uncertain and unpredictable situations.

The libjpeg-turbo project has decided not to emulate the libjpeg v9 API/ABI due to the lack of proven usefulness of the new color transform for the non-standard SmartScale format. The project aims to promote a stable, de facto standard JPEG codec library and is concerned about the lack of community visibility and research into the technical justification for SmartScale and DCT scaling.

The concept of national power is often misjudged by relying on single technologies or proxy indicators, and instead, it is the ability to use technology for commercial and military purposes that is essential. The US has an advantage in innovation due to its decentralized economy, competitive markets, and entrepreneurial culture, which has led to its overall strength compared to other economies.

The US military is developing new uncrewed aircraft that can take off and land vertically, with test flights expected as early as 2026. The Advanced Aircraft Infrastructure-less Launch And Recovery (ANCILLARY) program aims to create X-planes that can operate from aircraft carriers and withstand adverse weather conditions.

Xeno-canto is a website sharing wildlife sound recordings from around the world, inviting users to listen, download, and explore, with a collaborative project allowing users to share their own recordings and help identify mystery recordings. The website has recently added new recordings, including frog species from South America and Orthoptera recordings from the Balkans and Mediterranean.

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The weaponization of emotional data through neurotargeting and AI-generated disinformation threatens to erode democratic foundations, compromising free speech and informed decision-making. To prevent this, individuals must take responsibility for verifying information and holding wrongdoers accountable, while working together to defend democracy.

This website is generated statically using a Common Lisp program, with minimal dynamic pages, and provides a consolidated web feed and tag-based browsing. The website loads MathJax for mathematical formulas and uses relative links to ensure local browsing without a web server, with no external resources loaded.

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Apple has finally adopted RCS (Rich Communication Services) in iOS 18, allowing iPhone and Android users to send high-resolution pictures and videos, but the announcement was overshadowed by flashy iMessage features. The move comes after years of pressure from regulators and competitors, and while it's a significant improvement for cross-platform messaging, Apple's announcement was ...

The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) is a complex system with varying plate geometry, sediment distribution, and faulting patterns along its length, which can affect the likelihood and size of large earthquakes. The CASIE21 seismic imaging experiment has provided new insights into the structure and properties of the CSZ, including the presence of structural domains, sediment underthrusting, and ...

Vulnerability fixed in VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier, allowing malicious streams to crash the player or execute arbitrary code. Users should refrain from opening mms streams from untrusted sources until the patch is applied.

Researchers developed a fatigue-free ferroelectric material using sliding ferroelectricity, which retains its memory performance after 106 switching cycles. The material's immobile charged defects are attributed to its fatigue-free property, making it suitable for applications in sensing and energy conversion devices.

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, learned the importance of prioritizing time wisely from a gardener he met while traveling, who dedicated himself to his craft and had "plenty of time". Huang applies this lesson to his own life, focusing on his highest priority work first and dedicating his day to helping others.

The Nemotron-4-340B model family, including Nemotron-4-340B-Base, Nemotron-4-340B-Instruct, and Nemotron-4-340B-Reward, is released under the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement, with a focus on large language models for various applications. The models are evaluated on a range of automatic benchmarks and human evaluation, showing competitive performance with other open-source and proprietary models.

Dr. Phillip Alvelda, a former program manager in DARPA's Biological Technologies Office, criticizes the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing inadequate surveillance and mitigation measures, and warns that the virus could lead to a chronic illness affecting millions of Americans. He urges the implementation of indoor air quality standards and stricter public health measures ...

Samyang's three instant ramen flavors are being recalled in Denmark due to their extremely spicy levels of capsaicin, posing a risk of acute poisoning. The recall has sparked online debate, with some amused reactions from spicy food lovers and others questioning the Danes' tolerance for spice.

A Nigerian national, Ebuka Raphael Umeti, was convicted of participating in a $1.5 million business email compromise (BEC) scam, using social engineering and malware to deceive victims. Umeti's trial ended with a guilty verdict, and he faces up to 102 years in prison, although the actual sentence will likely be less due to federal sentencing guidelines.

The author, a frontend developer, shares their experience of burnout and being fired from a remote job, but credits the experience with sparking an insight into the importance of mental representation in software development. They propose the idea of having a standard, evolving mental representation of the problem to guide software development and improve productivity.

The repository contains a crewAI application that generates songs about a given topic and music genre using the Suno AI API, with agents for web research, lyrics creation, and song generation. The application requires configuration of environment variables, including Suno COOKIE, Groq API Key, and Serper API KEY, and uses Docker-compose for containerization.