The author, a co-founder of CB Insights, took over his father's chemical manufacturing company, Atlas, after his father's death and successfully sold it to Eternis, a larger chemical company, after a 13-month process. The author shares his learnings and observations from the M&A process, including the importance of clear goals, simplicity, and fairness, as well as the challenges of navigating ...

The user feels that Windows has become too commercialized and intrusive, with ads and forced updates that compromise their personal experience, leading them to consider alternative operating systems like macOS and Linux. They express frustration with Windows' lack of customization options, bloatware, and security issues, and suggest that a "hands-off" or "ad-free" version of Windows would be ...

The language network in the human brain is not necessary for complex thought, as individuals with severe linguistic impairments can still engage in various forms of thinking and reasoning. Instead, language is an efficient communication code that has evolved to facilitate the transmission of information, with features such as sound repertoires, word forms, and syntax optimized for ease of ...

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Andrew Tanenbaum received the ACM Software System Award for MINIX, a microkernel-based UNIX operating system that influenced teaching of Operating Systems principles and contributed to Linux's design. MINIX, created in 1987, became free open-source software in 2000 and inspired Linux, powering cloud servers, mobile phones, and IoT devices.

Farm is a Rust-based tool that starts React/Vue projects in milliseconds and enables hot module replacement (HMR) updates within 10ms. It supports incremental building, persistent caching, and various plugins for compiling and bundling HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other assets, with support for both Rust and JavaScript plugins.

Energy Singularity's HH70, the world's first fully high-temperature superconducting Tokamak device, has successfully achieved first plasma. The device's completion marks a first-mover advantage for China in high-temperature superconducting magnetic confinement fusion and paves the way for the development of next-generation devices.

The user experimented with using SSH locally to perform the same role as sudo, without exposing the SSH instance to the network, by creating a dedicated SSH key and running an SSH server instance bound to a Unix domain socket. They used the ProxyUseFdpass option to connect to the local SSH instance, allowing them to run commands as root without exposing the root account to the network.

The author discovered they had aphantasia, a condition where they cannot mentally visualize images, after taking a simple test and realizing they couldn't recall visual details about people and places. Despite this, the author has a strong memory and can recall concepts, emotions, and physical sensations, and has learned to adapt to their unique way of perceiving the world.

Arm64EC is a new application binary interface for Windows 11 that enables native speed and performance on Arm-powered devices, allowing developers to build new native apps or transition existing x64 apps. It guarantees interoperability with x64 code and enables incremental transition of code from emulated to native, allowing developers to prioritize the most CPU-intensive dependencies to ...

The user discusses issues with using the rsqrtps instruction in code due to precision differences between Intel and AMD CPUs, and proposes using inline assembly to guarantee instruction selection. They also describe a workaround for constant folding using the __builtin_constant_p intrinsic, but note that it has limitations and advocate for a loosening of the intrinsic's behavior.

Neural radiance fields provide high-quality view synthesis but are slow due to volume rendering. HybridNeRF, a new method, combines surface and volume rendering to improve quality and speed, achieving 15-30% lower error rates and real-time framerates.

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely used in academic writing, with at least 10% of 2024 abstracts likely processed with LLMs. The usage varies across disciplines, countries, and journals, with some sub-corpora showing as high as 30% LLM-based writing.

AMD's Bergamo CPU uses a density-focused variant of the Zen 4 core, called Zen 4c, to increase core counts beyond what scaling up an interconnect can do, and achieves impressive performance in multithreaded workloads despite lower cache capacity and memory bandwidth. Bergamo's high core count and density-focused design make it an attractive option for cloud providers and data centers, and its ...

Ember estimates that 20% of the world's electricity will come from solar on the UN's International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice, a 4% increase from last year. Solar generation is expected to reach 8.2% of global electricity generation on June 21, with China, the EU, and Spain expected to have higher solar shares.

Tachyonfx is a library for creating shader-like effects in terminal UIs, offering color transformations, animations, and complex effect combinations. The library provides tools like EffectTimer and CellFilter to control duration, interpolation, and targeted visual modifications, allowing for precise timing and synchronization of visual effects.

AWS Lambda Web Adapter allows developers to build web apps with familiar frameworks and run them on AWS Lambda, supporting HTTP 1.1/1.0 and various event triggers. The adapter provides features such as readiness checks, asynchronous initialization, and compression, and allows developers to debug their web applications locally with familiar tools and debuggers.

The author discusses the basics of einsum notation, a tensor manipulation API that simplifies complex linear algebraic operations, and provides examples of its use in matrix multiplication and transpose operations. The author then delves into a simple Jax transformer implementation, showcasing the use of einsum in the attention and feed-forward neural network blocks, and explains the concept ...

Benjamin Thorpe was a scholar who published numerous editions and translations of Old English texts, earning him the reputation as "the first professional Anglo-Saxonist". Despite some errors in his later reprints, Thorpe's works generally enjoy a good reputation and he left a lasting mark on the developing profession of Anglo-Saxon studies.

The author reverse-engineered a Samsung/SoluM electronic shelf label (ESL) device, a black-and-white eInk display, and created a custom firmware to enable wireless image updates and a picture frame mode. The author also implemented various optimizations, such as power management, encryption, and wear-leveling, to improve the device's performance and security.

Pi Gazing uses Raspberry Pi computers and CCTV cameras to record and analyze the night sky, detecting shooting stars, satellites, and rare phenomena like lightning and Iridian flares. The project also takes long-exposure still photos to calibrate the camera and track celestial movements, with an open-source code and hardware design available on GitHub.

Spotify's low per-stream payment rate is a result of its deal with the Big Three record labels, which gives them significant ownership stakes and allows them to keep most of the revenue. The solution is not to give artists more copyright, but to organize and strike for better labor rights and to demand that the FTC regulate AI-based labor exploitation.

Envelope is a command-line utility that uses an SQLite database to manage environment variables, allowing easy switching between configurations. It creates a .env file and provides commands for exporting and deleting variables, with options for soft and hard deletion.

The article demonstrates a reflected XSS attack on the Juice Shop web application, a project that features all OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities, to show how an attacker can inject malicious code into a trusted website. The attack involves injecting code into the search bar and clicking a link, which can be used to send malicious code to unsuspecting users, highlighting the importance of ...

Allen Cekorich's story in Forth Dimensions shares his experiences with Forth, from his first job to his current situation, highlighting the power and flexibility of the language. The conversation that followed discussed the pros and cons of Forth, with some arguing that it is a niche tool for loners, while others see its potential for success in professional projects and its extensibility.

well that was a good run. google is force cancelling my gsuite because I have used the unlimited storage limits like they are unlimited.

The project aims to create a system of tutorials to build a radio telescope at home or in a classroom for under $200, using cardboard and easily found parts. The tutorials provide knowledge and software to build and use the telescope, measure the Milky Way's spiral structure, and analyze data files, with minimal background knowledge required.

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The author discusses their experience with Waymo, a self-driving car service, and predicts that it will revolutionize public transportation in the US, making it more efficient, accessible, and environmentally friendly. Waymo's ability to operate without human drivers will allow it to scale up quickly and undercut competitors like Uber, making it a natural monopoly in the market.

You're taking the lead on a software migration from V1 to V2, deprecating and eventually removing V1, for 8 clients with 16 million customers. You're seeking advice and recommended reading, and have already found inspiration in "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner.

Microsoft insiders worry the company's AI strategy has become too focused on its partnership with OpenAI, leading to resentment and the departure of some executives. The company's AI Platform team has shifted focus from internal services to the Azure OpenAI service, with some describing it as "IT for OpenAI" rather than an innovation engine.

Exposure to light at night is associated with increased systemic inflammation and disrupted circadian rhythms of inflammatory markers. Keeping bedrooms dark at night may be a strategy for preventing chronic inflammation, and regular physical activity may counteract the negative impacts of nighttime light pollution.

NASA has delayed the return of its Starliner spacecraft to Earth from June 26 to an unspecified date in July due to issues with the spacecraft's helium system leaks and thruster performance. The delay will allow NASA and Boeing engineers to gather more data and complete readiness for the spacecraft's return, with the next possible return date likely to be after the July 4th holiday.

The Swift compiler's type inference can lead to slow compile times due to its constraint solver, which can get bogged down by complex expressions and many possible combinations. To mitigate this, use temporary variables, limit expression length, and consider adding type annotations to achieve faster and more predictable performance.

Emacs' complexity can lead to "bankruptcy" due to excessive configuration, but adopting a frugal approach by prioritizing high-power-to-weight ratio packages and ruthless deletion of marginal config can help maintain a healthy setup. By focusing on upstream Emacs and leveraging its built-in subsystems, one can achieve a balance between customizability and simplicity.

Greece's labor market has become increasingly deregulated, with workers often forced to work longer hours without compensation, and the new six-day work week law is expected to worsen conditions. Critics argue that the law gives employers too much power, leading to exploitation and increased safety risks, while many Greeks seek work abroad due to poor working conditions and low wages.

Lynn Conway, a pioneering engineer, developed very-large-scale integration (VLSI) technology with Carver Mead, revolutionizing microchip design. Despite facing discrimination and being overlooked due to her gender identity, Conway fought for recognition and has been honored by various organizations, including the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the IEEE.

The project aims to reconstruct the source code for the MS-DOS version of F-15 Strike Eagle 2 v451.03, a 1991 game, in a bug-for-bug faithful manner, allowing for layout differences in the executable. The reconstruction is ongoing, with some executables already fully reconstructed, while others require further work, and the project welcomes contributions that maintain consistency with the ...

The Nuova luce da Pompei exhibition explored the role of artificial light in ancient Roman daily life, featuring 180 rarely seen bronze lamps and statues from Pompeii and Rome. The show demonstrated the effects and meanings of lighting devices, encouraging visitors to handle replicas and virtually light lamps to experience their agency.

Costco plans to build a new store in Los Angeles' Baldwin Village neighborhood, using a new process that bypasses years of public hearings and allows developers to start building once they demonstrate compliance with rules. The project will feature modular housing, built at a factory, to save on labor costs and comply with prevailing wage requirements, highlighting the impact of regulations ...

The project aims to provide a chrestomathy for typesetting, comparing and contrasting approaches to various typesetting situations by different engines, focusing on layout and orthographic features. Contributions can be made by editing or adding input samples, and the site can be built and tested locally using Nix.

A vulnerability in VisionOS Safari (CVE-2024-27812) allows malicious websites to bypass warnings and fill a user's room with arbitrary 3D objects, which persist even after exiting Safari. The bug was reported to Apple in February 2024 and fixed in June, with the user awarded a bounty, and highlights the need for a more nuanced threat model for the Vision Pro's Spatial Computing feature.

Virtually Hawaii is a NASA-funded project that offers virtual field trips to Hawaiian islands, featuring air and ground photographs, remote sensing data, and local features. The project is run through the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium and provides tutorials, interactive tools, and satellite data for exploring Hawaii's geography and weather.

Feral pigeons, once revered and domesticated, have become widely detested and viewed as dirty, disease-addled, and "flying rats" due to a series of misunderstandings and prejudices. Despite their remarkable intelligence, social behavior, and ability to thrive in urban environments, pigeons are often subjected to cruelty and neglect, and their rehabilitation requires careful effort and ...

The user learned that in CSS, an "em" is not the width of an uppercase "M", but rather the computed font size of the current element, and that it can be used for both vertical and horizontal measurements. The user also discovered that using the "ex" unit for setting line-height can help achieve a more consistent typography across different browsers.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have developed a method to detect when large language models (LLMs) are making up false information, which they term "confabulation". The method evaluates the semantic entropy of the LLM's answers, determining whether it is uncertain about phrasing but has the right answer or is prone to confabulation and should be prevented from doing so.

The US Olympic team will bring air conditioners to the Paris Games, contradicting organizers' efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The move is aimed at providing consistency and predictability for athletes, who prioritize comfort for optimal performance.

The user argues that public data should not be used for AI training without explicit consent, citing ownership and copyright concerns. They also highlight the issue of reposted content, where the original creator may not have control over AI training or even know if their work is being used.

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Steve Jobs threatened to "destroy" Android, calling it a "stolen product", due to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt being on Apple's board while Android was developed. Apple has since tried to slow down Android's growth through lawsuits, but has accepted its role in the market and is now focusing on innovating its own mobile devices and operating system.

Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

The ASCII standard does not define a unique end-of-line character, leading to diversity among operating systems, which was addressed by adopting the CR LF convention for network communication. This convention was enforced by Jon Postel and carried into FTP, SMTP, and other protocols, making it transparent for most users, but still causing issues in certain situations.

A senior Canadian federal scientist, Prof Samuel Weiss, has accused the government of shutting down an investigation into a mystery brain illness in New Brunswick, which he believes may have affected 350 people. Weiss and another leading federal scientist, Michael Coulthart, claim that the government has deliberately halted the investigation, despite their efforts to explore environmental ...

AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring or circumventing a web rule to scrape content for free model training data, despite claiming to respect the rule. This practice undermines the unofficial agreements supporting the use of the robots.txt code, which prevents automated scraping of websites.

The fuzzer found a memory leak in librsvg when parsing invalid XML documents with entity definitions, which was fixed by adding an impl Drop for a wrapper around xmlEntityPtr to automatically free the entities when the hash table is freed. This approach allows Rust to automatically manage the external resources, making the code simpler and more reliable.

Ollama is an open-source tool that allows users to run large language models (LLMs) on their desktop systems, including chatbots like Mistral and source code generators like Codellama, without requiring special hardware. The tool supports Nvidia and Apple M-series GPUs, and can also run on AVX2-compatible CPUs, although performance may vary depending on the system's specifications.

Netflix released a 12-minute original program, "Meridian", as test footage to evaluate video codecs and streaming performance, and is giving it away for free under a Creative Commons license. The company is also open-sourcing tools to help the industry adopt the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) for exchanging master files, and has a history of releasing open-source projects in the cloud ...

The choice of cooking oil can be overwhelming due to various options and labels, but ultimately, unsaturated fats from plants are considered healthier than saturated fats. Most plant-based oils, including olive oil, contain healthy fats and can be used in moderation, and it's more important to focus on overall diet and cooking habits rather than obsessing over specific oil details.

EU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of staff from chat scanning, fearing sensitive information could be leaked, while rejecting development of best practices for preventing child sexual abuse. The proposal aims for China-style mass surveillance, not child protection, and threatens to destroy digital privacy and secure encryption.

Algorithm aversion occurs when people prefer human decision-makers over algorithms despite their superior performance, driven by factors like desire for agency, negative emotional reaction, and ignorance. Understanding the mechanisms behind algorithm aversion can help overcome it and identify its boundaries.

Sheryl Crow has spoken out against the use of AI in music, calling it a "slippery slope" and "betrayal" that goes against humanity. She has also expressed concerns about the implications of AI on society and politics, and has called on politicians to enact tighter controls on AI.

The user is concerned about "Software Bit Rot" in the Milk-V Duo S SBC running Apache NuttX RTOS and plans to implement daily automated testing to ensure bootability. The testing involves a script that boots the SBC, runs NuttX tests, and records results in GitHub release notes, with a backup plan to use a software emulator.

The author is discussing changes to coverage.py to reduce execution-time overhead, including the use of Python 3.12's sys.monitoring feature and a new approach to measuring branch coverage. However, there are still challenges to overcome, such as adapting tests and determining branches in complex code scenarios.

Broadcom Inc. announced that the District Court in Munich, Germany fined Netflix €7.05 million for patent infringement, specifically for using HEVC/H.265 video coding technology without permission. The fine is for Netflix's deliberate violation of a previous court judgment, and Broadcom may seek additional penalties for continued infringement.

The author argues that a society that rewards effort over everything else can lead to a lack of love and compassion, causing suffering for individuals and society as a whole. They plead for people to recognize love as the source of everything, rather than a secondary quality, and to prioritize it in their personal and professional lives.

A colleague found an 8% speed improvement by reworking the leap year predicate, avoiding division, and the author explores how to calculate the leap year predicate without division, using bitwise operations and multiplicative inverses. The approach involves reducing the problem to calculating divisibility by 4, 16, and 25, and using bitwise operations to test for divisibility by 25.

The EAT-Lancet Commission proposed a healthy dietary pattern to feed the increasing global population sustainably and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in 2050. A study found that increasing adherence to this dietary pattern, measured by the Planetary Health Diet Index, was associated with lower risk of total and cause-specific mortality in three large prospective cohorts of adults in ...

The Pocket 386 is a retro-style laptop that combines Hand386 internals with a clamshell design, featuring an Ali M6117 processor, 8MB RAM, and various ports, available for $187. It can run Windows 95, but performance will be slow due to the 386SX processor and limited memory, making it best suited for running Windows 3.x and MS-DOS.

SketchDeco is a training-free approach that colorizes free-hand sketches and masks without prompts, requiring 20 GB VRAM and tested on Nvidia RTX 4090 and Google Colab A100. The input structure includes a 512x512 B&W sketch, binary masks, and color palettes, with a Tau value controlling harmonization and faithfulness.

Frontend build systems process source code and emit optimized JavaScript files for the browser, solving issues like unsupported language features and performance problems caused by multiple HTTP requests. Various tools like bundlers, transpilers, and minifiers are used to achieve this, with some tools like Webpack, Rollup, and Parcel being popular choices, and newer tools like Esbuild and ...

Scientists Yonadav Barry Ginat and Hagai Perets have developed a statistical solution to the three-body problem, a centuries-old problem in physics, by using a random walk model to calculate the probability of different outcomes. This solution can be applied to complex gravitational systems, such as dense clusters of stars, and can also account for internal structure and tidal effects of the ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered the venom of the electric caterpillar, a painful insect found in north-east Queensland, contains complex molecules that could lead to new insecticides and therapeutics. The venom library, which includes over 500 species, allows scientists to screen hundreds of venoms at once and rapidly identify promising candidate molecules for ...

Apple will not release iPhone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing, and Apple Intelligence features in the European Union due to regulatory issues with the Digital Markets Act. The company is working to make the features compatible with EU competition rules, but it's unclear when they will be available in the region.

The author uses 11ty as a blogging framework and adds a view count and like button to their blog, but struggles with Vercel's limitations and eventually finds a solution using Vercel KV and Express. The author provides a detailed explanation of their solution, including code examples, and notes that 11ty's documentation is poor and recommends using Next.js instead.

The US Olympic team will bring air conditioners to the Paris Games, contradicting organizers' efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The move is aimed at providing consistency and predictability for athletes, who prioritize comfort for optimal performance.

Schema changes can cause downtime by locking out reads and writes, especially with long-running queries and DDL statements. Migration tools like pgroll use lock timeouts, backoff, and retry strategies to avoid downtime and ensure schema changes are executed successfully.