Chile is a long and thin country due to its unique geography, with the Andes Mountains making it difficult to pass through and creating a narrow strip of land to the west. This isolation has contributed to the development of a distinct Chilean Spanish dialect, which is incomprehensible to other Spanish speakers due to its unique history and geography.

The openSUSE community and SUSE company have been accused of discrimination against conservative individuals, with some employees and leaders making bigoted and offensive comments against those who do not actively support the LGBT flag. The article documents several instances of conservative community members being banned or silenced for not conforming to the community's expectations, with no ...

The diff-pdf tool compares two PDF files and outputs differences in various formats, including a return code, a PDF file with highlighted differences, or a GUI for visual comparison. The tool requires a Unix-like environment and various libraries, and can be built and installed on Windows using MinGW and MSYS2.

Ladybird aims to release its first Alpha version in Summer 2026 for Linux and macOS, focusing on building a new browser engine from scratch with a growing team of engineers. The project is open to sponsorships, but emphasizes independence and will not adopt another browser engine or compromise on its goals.

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a collective effort by a group of amateur mathematicians, has finally solved the problem of determining the value of BB(5), the number of steps it takes for a specific Turing machine to halt, after over 40 years of work. The solution, which was achieved using a combination of computer programs and mathematical proofs, has been verified using the Coq proof assistant ...

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The author describes their journey to create a Linux system that boots off an S3 bucket, using FUSE and Dracut, and eventually mounts Google Drive as the root filesystem. They encounter various challenges and workarounds, including symlink issues and slow boot times, but ultimately achieve their goal and envision commercializing their "Cloud Native Computer" technology.

Piles are structural members used in deep foundations, transferring loads from structures to the ground. They can be driven or drilled into the ground, with different types of piles used for various applications, including resisting vertical, lateral, and uplift forces.

The story of Tomás Lopez, Spain's official geographer, who asked local priests to create maps of their provinces, highlights the tradeoff between modularity and expressiveness in design. The author reflects on how this dynamic is present in various aspects of life, from web design to relationships, and encourages readers to consider the value of specificity and compromise in their own creative work.

Two ancient wooden sticks, found in an Australian cave, are evidence of a healing ritual passed down unchanged by Indigenous people for over 12,000 years. The sticks, discovered in the Victorian Alps, were used in a ritual where a sick person's belongings were tied to the stick and then thrust into the ground before a small fire was lit, with the goal of healing the person.

Bruce Bastian, a 76-year-old alumnus of Brigham Young University, passed away surrounded by family and friends, leaving behind a legacy of philanthropy and advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community. Bastian was a pioneer in word-processing technology, a successful entrepreneur, and a dedicated advocate for social justice, leaving a lasting impact on the lives of many through his work and charitable efforts.

GraphRAG is a graph-based approach to retrieval-augmented generation that enables question-answering over private or unseen datasets, offering more structured information retrieval and comprehensive response generation. It uses a large language model to automate the extraction of a rich knowledge graph from text documents, allowing for hierarchical summaries and global question answering, ...

Pretzel is an open-source Jupyter alternative that adds AI code generation and editing, inline tab completion, and sidebar chat to Jupyter, with easy installation and compatibility with existing Jupyter config and settings. Pretzel uses a free AI server by default, but users can configure it to use their own OpenAI or Azure API key, and the tool is licensed under AGPLv3 to ensure that ...

Mako, a "production-grade" front-end build tool based on Rust, is now open-source and offers a 4x speed improvement over Webpack for Ant Design Pro full project builds. Mako's experimental SSU feature can achieve a 10-50x speed boost in Dev hot start-up, and the project is seeking contributors and feedback through various channels.

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The user loves leap seconds and the technical challenge they present, but is concerned about the suggestion to abolish them and instead introduce a leap minute, which they believe would be a more complex and unpopular solution. They also mention the possibility of a negative leap second, which has never happened before, and express a desire to see it occur.

EF Education-EasyPost head performance chef Owen Blandy and his team use a year-round process to understand the nutritional needs of their riders, including individualized meal plans and AI-generated nutrition plans. The team's approach to nutrition has evolved significantly, with a focus on personalization, high-carbohydrate intake, and simple cooking methods to fuel the riders' bodies ...

SQL Explorer is a Django-based application that enables fast and simple data flow between people, connecting to any SQL database and offering a SQL editor, query results viewer, and LLM-powered SQL assistant. The project is MIT licensed, open to pull requests, and includes a test project for easy setup and testing.

A Vim script port of 8cc, a C compiler, was created using ELVM, which retargets 8cc to emit an intermediate representation and translates it into various targets. The resulting Vim script, 8cc.vim, can compile C code into Vim script and run it on a virtual machine, allowing for cross-platform execution.

The Transformer is a neural machine translation model that uses self-attention mechanisms to process input sequences in parallel, allowing for faster training and improved performance. The model consists of an encoder and a decoder, with the encoder processing the input sequence and the decoder generating the output sequence, using attention mechanisms to focus on relevant parts of the input sequence.

The Sphere, a music and entertainment venue, features a massive 16K screen and immersive 4DX effects, which transported the author to new environments, particularly when simulating interiors. Despite some technical issues and a mediocre film, the author was impressed by the Sphere's ability to create a sense of presence and immersion, particularly in its rendering of interiors.

Google's emissions surged 50% in 2023 due to increased data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions driven by AI demand. The company remains committed to mitigating the environmental impact of AI through efficiency measures and emissions reductions.

The author tested Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) and found that while they can match the performance of traditional neural networks at the same parameter count, they require significant tuning and are more complicated to implement. The author ultimately concluded that traditional neural networks are a stronger default choice due to their simplicity and effectiveness, despite KANs having ...

Brazil's data protection authority banned Meta from using Brazilian data to train its AI, citing the risk of serious damage to users' fundamental rights. Meta is "disappointed" and claims its method complies with Brazilian laws, but the agency has given the company five working days to comply and has imposed a daily fine for non-compliance.

The user noticed a perceived bias towards the number 8 in their bank's TOTP app-generated codes, but after sampling and plotting the digits, they found no significant bias. They also suggested analyzing the frequency of each digit in each position, and another commenter mentioned that there are methods to defeat statistical analysis, such as the "lucky log" die.

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Researchers have struggled to develop effective treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, but a new epigenetic editor shows promise in silencing the expression of prion protein in mice. The editor offers a fresh approach to treating neurodegenerative diseases, which have proven challenging to treat despite recent advances in molecular medicine.

The concept of "biphasic programming" refers to languages and frameworks that enable identical syntax to express computations executed in two distinct phases or environments, such as compile-time and runtime, or server-side and client-side rendering. Examples of biphasic programming include Zig's comptime system, React Server Components, and Winglang, which all allow for the same code to be ...

You acknowledge Sonar's good intentions, but recognize its limitations in keeping pace with rapidly changing programming languages. As an experienced developer and team lead, you have worked with various languages, including Kotlin, Java, C++, and Swift, and believe you have valuable insights to share.

In the IBM PC BIOS, Alt+ codes were treated as decimal byte values, using the OEM character set, but could be prefixed with a numeric keypad 0 to use the ANSI code page. The Alt+ code behavior depends on the control being typed into, with some controls like RichEdit taking the value mod 65536 instead of the default mod 256.

The article discusses the history and current state of machine learning in the racing game Trackmania, highlighting various attempts to create autonomous programs that can play the game at a high level, including those that have achieved impressive results. The author's own project aims to create a program that can win the Cup of the Day, a prestigious event in the game, and they plan to use ...

The author argues that focusing on routine and habits is not enough to achieve success, and instead, one should prioritize "10x work" - high-impact tasks that drive significant outcomes. To achieve this, one should create an environment that fosters agency, serendipity, and new information, and focus on building skills, networks, and assets that compound over time.

Figma disabled its new AI-powered app design tool, Make Design, after a user showed that it was copying Apple's weather app. The company is re-enabling the feature after a full QA pass, and is emphasizing that its generative AI features are not trained on Figma users' work.

The article provides best practices for modern Python development, including using a tool like pyenv or mise to install Python, creating a pyproject.toml file, and using virtual environments, pipx, and pytest for project management and testing. It also covers topics such as code formatting, linting, and debugging, as well as using TOML, JSON, and other formats for data files, and using ...

The restoration of island ecosystems by eradicating invasive species and restoring native vegetation can have significant benefits for seabird populations and the ecosystems they inhabit, including increased seabird populations, nutrient flows, and coral reef functioning. In the Chagos Archipelago, eradicating rats and restoring 75% native vegetation cover could lead to a 18-fold increase in ...

The number e is a transcendental number that has special properties, making it a natural choice for logarithms, despite being difficult to calculate with. Its most important property is related to the slope of exponential and logarithm functions, which is used to find the base that makes the slope of the tangent equal to 1.

HTMX, a JavaScript framework, makes it difficult to provide security against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks due to its dynamic behavior and lack of support for content security policies (CSPs). The framework's features, such as hx-disable and automatic nonce addition, can be bypassed or compromised, increasing the attack surface and making it difficult to provide security against XSS injection.

John Michell, a British clergyman, predicted the existence of black holes in the 18th century using Newtonian laws, but his work was largely forgotten until the 20th century. Michell's ideas were ahead of his time, and his predictions about the behavior of light and gravity were remarkably prescient, anticipating the concept of black holes and the way they affect the orbits of nearby stars.

A safecracker was hired to open a 10-year-old Gary safe with a Sargent & Greenleaf dial, and after examining the exterior and using a borescope to view the lock, he was able to determine the combination and open the safe. The safe was found to be a TL-15 burglar-resistant safe with a Group 2 lock and a U.L. listed relock device, and the safecracker was able to repair the hole he made in the ...

UCLA physicists have successfully excited the nucleus of a thorium atom using a laser, enabling the development of the most accurate atomic clocks ever. This achievement could lead to precise measurements of time, gravity, and fundamental constants, potentially rewriting our understanding of the universe and its laws.

OmniParse is a platform that ingests and parses unstructured data into structured, actionable data optimized for GenAI applications, supporting various file types and formats. It can be deployed using Docker and Skypilot, and offers features like table extraction, image captioning, and batch processing for handling multiple files at once.

Creatine supplementation improves physical function, muscle function, and lean tissue mass in older adults and adults with chronic disease, but the quality of evidence is low due to a high risk of bias. Further high-quality prospective randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm these findings and establish the efficacy of creatine supplementation for optimizing physical function in ...

The accuracy of Turing's 1936 paper "On computable numbers..." for the computable undecidability of the halting problem is discussed. A nuanced conclusion is reached regarding the attribution of this concept.

The user recounts a difficult interview for a graduate position at Google, where they were asked to calculate the number of bits needed to represent a number up to 56 million, and felt pressured and unable to focus. The user later decided to leave Google and build a non-profit search engine, driven by community input and donations, as a response to Google's perceived negative values and practices.

Australia is likely to become a gas importer due to dwindling domestic supply, with experts saying time has run out to develop new sources to avert crippling shortages. Building an LNG import terminal is seen as the best option to supply gas to the eastern states, with several proposals already underway, including one in Port Kembla, NSW.

A hacky solution is provided to enable GPU profiling for WebGPU on Windows using Chrome, which involves downloading and placing a DLL in the Chrome folder and using command-line arguments to launch Chrome with the profiler. The solution allows for profiling with AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler and Nvidia's Nsight, but is a temporary fix and may break in the future.

The Busy Beaver function, a sequence of integers that grows faster than any computable function, has had its fifth value determined to be 47,176,870 after an international collaboration used the Coq proof system to verify the result. The determination of this value is significant because it demonstrates human progress against the vastness of the arithmetical cosmos and showcases the power of ...

Fiwix is a hobby operating system kernel written from scratch, designed to be POSIX compatible and small in size, with a focus on simplicity for educational purposes. It can be built and run on i386 hardware, but requires a user-space environment and may have bugs and broken features due to its early stages.

The Cutting Board Designer is a free tool that makes it faster and easier to design and build awesome looking cutting boards.

Tech giants are investing $1tn in AI infrastructure, but so far, there's little to show for it. The outcome of this spending and its implications for economies, companies, and markets are a top concern.

The code imports Ant Design components and renders a primary button and date picker. The text invites contributions, provides a contributing guide, and outlines development instructions and pull request guidelines for collaborators.

Wang Jie commissioned the printing of The Diamond Sutra, a 17-and-a-half-foot-long scroll of a sacred Buddhist text, in 868 AD, making it the oldest dated printed book in existence. The text, part of Mahayana Buddhism, is a conversation between the Buddha's pupil and master, and its printing was a good deed and way of gaining merit in Jie's culture.

Figma's new Make Designs feature produces a weather app that is a blatant rip-off of Apple's Weather app, with identical design elements. The user accuses Figma of intentionally copying the design, rather than using AI-generated output, and warns that designers may unknowingly create similar rip-offs.

You discovered that the Canadian Digital Services' open-source form builder app uses your React tree library, react-complex-tree, which you find exciting. The library allows building feature-rich tree views without assumptions on looks, and you're honored to see it used by government services.

The author discovers a treasure trove of vintage electronics and dollhouse collecting materials, including a book on the Queen's Doll's House, which sparks a discussion on the physics of miniatures and the appeal of dollhouses. The author reflects on their own fixation on the gap between models and reality, citing various interests and obsessions, including lucid dreaming and plant behavior.

A phishing email was sent to 35,794 email addresses by [email protected], but no victims lost funds due to the email campaign being blocked by web3 wallet providers and Cloudflare. The Ethereum blog's internal security team is investigating the incident, taking measures to prevent future attacks, and apologizing for the occurrence.

The author discovers a vulnerable Brother printer, the Brother VC-500W, which is still in production and shipping with a 10-year-old version of CUPS, a medieval version of the printing system. The author exploits the vulnerabilities, including an arbitrary file write vulnerability, and gains root access, ultimately finding that the firmware is poorly designed and insecure, with many issues and holes.

The software industry is undergoing commoditization, driven by market forces, leading to a race to the bottom in prices and perceived value. Open source software has succeeded by making expensive stuff cheap, but the pricing race to the bottom has further to run on the server side.

Kei trucks, small Japanese vehicles with a maximum engine displacement of 660cc, are popular for their practicality, economy, and customization options, making them ideal for both work and leisure activities. With their compact size and versatility, kei trucks have become a staple in Japanese culture, with many users customizing them for outdoor activities, camping, and even as mobile homes.

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If one Rubik’s Cube has more than 49 quintillion possibilities, and millions of Rubik’s Cubes are sold and solved every year, multiply that by 50 years and you have….so many possibilities!

The author worked on the TA graphics engine, focusing on unit rendering, caching, and anti-aliasing to improve performance and image quality. He implemented various techniques, including imposters, Z-buffering, and RLE encoding, to optimize rendering and reduce memory usage.

The UK leads Europe in remote working, with 41% of job postings being for hybrid roles and 9% for remote-only roles, due to its national culture of individualism and a more skewed economy towards services. However, the long-term impact of remote working on employee performance, career progression, and job security remains unknown, and companies like Microsoft and Meta are finding that too ...

Scientists discovered that Florida carpenter ants perform life-saving amputations on injured nest mates to prevent infection and promote survival, with the treatment tailored to the location of the injury. The ants' ability to diagnose and treat wounds is a remarkable example of social insect cooperation, where workers help each other to benefit the colony.

A format string vulnerability in Ghostscript ≤ 10.03.0 allows for code execution by exploiting the -dSAFER sandbox, which can be bypassed by reading and writing arbitrary memory locations. The vulnerability can be exploited by creating a Postscript program that uses the uniprint device to format a string and read arbitrary memory locations, and then using the %n format specifier to write to a ...

Greece has introduced a 48-hour working week, allowing private businesses to implement a sixth day of labor, in an effort to boost productivity and address labor shortages. The move has been met with fierce backlash from unions, who argue it erodes workers' rights and will lead to longer hours and less pay, rather than improving work conditions and quality of life.

Economist John Haltiwanger discovered a record rate of new business creation in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has continued to boom even after the pandemic, driven by remote work and tech startups, particularly in artificial intelligence. The boom has raised hopes for a long-awaited boost in productivity growth, but its impact on the economy is still uncertain and may take time ...

A sharp increase in DDoS attacks has been observed since the beginning of 2023, with a new trend of using compromised network core devices to generate high packet rate attacks, which can reach billions of packets per second. The security of network devices is a pressing concern, with over 10 critical CVEs released in 2024 affecting various network devices, and network core devices being used ...

The National Weather Service's official forecast is accurate within 3°F of the observed temperature in some areas, but less accurate in others, with Paonia, Colorado having the least accurate one-day forecast. The accuracy of the forecast varies depending on the location, with coastal regions and the southwest desert being more predictable, while the vast middle of the country is less ...

Dolphin, a popular emulator, has adopted a rolling release cycle, replacing its previous stable release model, and is now releasing new versions every few months with a changelog. The emulator has also introduced a new date-based versioning scheme, with the first release being Dolphin 2407, and has abandoned its X.0 release numbering.

A US federal judge refused to prohibit rapper BG from promoting gun violence in his music, citing free speech concerns, but ordered him to provide the government with copies of his songs before release and allowed prosecutors to modify his supervised release terms if deemed inconsistent with rehabilitation goals. The ruling came after prosecutors sought to restrict BG's lyrics, citing ...

Microsoft updated Phi-3 Mini, improving code understanding in Python, C++, Rust, and TypeScript, and enhancing post-training and multi-turn instruction following. The update also added support for the <|system|> tag and improved reasoning and long-context understanding in both 4K and 128K context model checkpoints.

Ron Lance, a caretaker of a nature preserve and expert on hawthorn trees, has been chronicling their mysterious decline in the eastern US, with many botanists agreeing that human influence on their habitat has contributed to their disappearance. Lance's hypothesis is that hawthorns' great diversification may have been unnatural, resulting from European colonization and the creation of new ...

The article highlights the limitations of SHAP scores, a popular method for explaining machine learning models, by demonstrating that they can provide misleading information about the relative importance of features. The authors show that SHAP scores can assign importance to irrelevant features and overlook critical features, which can lead to incorrect conclusions about the influence of ...

Writebook is a free, open-source software that allows users to publish independently on the web, requiring technical knowledge to install and host on a server. The software is free, but users cannot sell or repurpose the code, and books can be published publicly or privately, with formatting options using Markdown.

The user is working on a logic book and came across an interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange about finding the minimum number of steps to reach at least 100,000 'a's using only "select all", "copy", and "paste" functions. They also experimented with planning language in Picat to solve the problem and found that it can be used to find the shortest sequence of actions to reach the target, ...

Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) is a post-processing algorithm used in object detection to eliminate overlapping output boxes, requiring two thresholds: confidence and IoU. The paper analyzes the effectiveness of NMS and uncertainty-minimal query selection in YOLOv8, achieving best AP results with a confidence threshold of 0.001 and IoU threshold of 0.7, but with higher NMS time.

Figma's new tool Make Designs, which uses generative AI, was pulled after it created designs that looked similar to Apple's iOS weather app. Figma claims it didn't train the AI models, blaming a "bespoke design system" and promising to re-enable the feature soon after addressing the issue.

Mutahunter is an AI-driven mutation testing tool that leverages LLM models to inject context-aware faults into codebases, providing comprehensive and effective testing for software security and quality. The tool supports various programming languages and provides detailed mutation coverage reports, highlighting test suite effectiveness and identifying potential weaknesses.

The percentage of car crash deaths in the US involving cannabis doubled between 2000-2018, and those deaths are increasingly likely to involve alcohol. The study found that people who died in crashes involving cannabis had a 50% greater chance of also having alcohol in their system, suggesting that cannabis and alcohol are being used together more often when driving.

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Rishi Shah, a 38-year-old former billionaire, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for a $1 billion fraud at advertising startup Outcome Health, which included investors such as Goldman Sachs and Google. Shah and two other executives were convicted of fraud and money laundering charges, and prosecutors described him as the "driving force behind a dizzying array of lies" to clients, lenders, ...

Immich project updates: core contributors started full-time, PRs merged quickly, and new features added, including email notifications, similarity deduplication, and public Weblate project for translations. The team aims to bring Immich to a stable release later this year, with a roadmap outlining key goals and highlights.

The user is extremely impressed with Claude 3.5, finding it to be incredibly good at writing code fast and accurately, with a slight edge over GPT-4 in some cases. However, they also mention some limitations, such as UI lag and the need for explicit prompting, and express disappointment with the lack of a code interpreter and some features.

Walmart Canada has introduced its first hydrogen fuel cell-powered Nikola Tre truck, becoming the first major retail chain in North America to do so, as part of its goal to power 100% of its fleet with alternative fuel. The Nikola HFCEV has a range of 800 km and can avoid putting nearly 100 metric tons of CO2 tailpipe emissions into the air each year, making it a step towards decarbonizing ...

The user is considering creating a personal portfolio website to showcase their programming skills and is unsure if using ReactJS with SASS is overkill for a small project. They suggest keeping it simple with HTML, CSS, and JS or using a template engine like Pug or Handlebars, and only considering more complex frameworks like React or Next if the portfolio requires interactive features.

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The author argues that self-hosted software with lifetime licenses is a more sustainable and profitable model, as it eliminates the need for ongoing subscription fees and allows for greater control over data ownership. This model can be made accessible to non-technical users through simple installation processes and can be applied to a wide range of products, including those with large total ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) kernel has been upgraded from Linux 5.15 to 6.6 LTS, with changes including loadable modules support and fewer out-of-tree patches. The new kernel is now available for download and deployment to WSL2 users, with details available on the WSL2-Linux-Kernel GitHub repository.

Figma AI looks rather heavily trained on existing apps. This is a "weather app" using the new Make Designs feature and the results are basically Apple's Weather app (left). Tried three times, same results.

The author, an economic anthropologist, critiques the Enlightenment era's emphasis on reason and science, arguing that it was built on violent expropriations and colonialism, and that the current rise of generative AI represents a further attempt to automate creativity and control. The author sees generative AI as a tool that can be used to manipulate and control people, and argues that it is ...

New kitchen appliances come with advanced features, but they also have shorter lifespans and require more maintenance, making repairs often as costly as buying new ones. Many consumers don't use the advanced features, and manufacturers' focus on making products cheaper and more complex has led to a decrease in quality and durability.

Kubernetes CPU limits can cause more harm than help, as they can lead to CPU starvation and throttling, and accurate CPU requests can prevent this issue. Removing CPU limits and defining CPU requests can ensure that pods receive the CPU they need, without interference from other pods.

The user built a home-lab hypervisor using the ASRock DeskMini X600 barebone, installing Proxmox and setting up Tailscale for remote access. The machine consumes less than 10W of power and can handle demanding workloads, including Go compilation, making it suitable for running 24/7 as a VM host.

Archaeologists unraveled the history of the Roman water mills in Barbegal, France, using calcium carbonate deposits to reconstruct the site's 100-year operational life. The researchers found that the mills were modified over time, with water channels altered and larger wheels installed, and that the 16 water wheels operated independently towards the end of their lifetime.

Atoll islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have shown no widespread physical destabilization due to sea-level rise, with 88.6% of islands remaining stable or increasing in size. Island behavior is correlated with size, with no island larger than 10 ha decreasing in size, and human disturbances such as land reclamation and construction also play a role in shaping island and shoreline behavior.

The PR industry plays a significant role in shaping the news, with many stories originating from PR firms rather than journalists. The author argues that the rise of online media has made it easier to track and identify PR-generated content, and that this has led to a decline in trust in traditional media and an increase in trust in online sources.

Nicholas Bloom's study found that employees who work from home two days a week are just as productive and likely to be promoted as those who work in the office full-time. The study also showed that hybrid work dramatically boosted retention rates, with resignations falling by 33% among workers who shifted from full-time office work to a hybrid schedule.

The X Window System celebrated its 40th birthday, with the author reflecting on their contributions to the project, including the development of NeWS and X11, and the reasons why X11 became widely adopted despite its limitations. Despite the rise of alternative window systems like Wayland, X11 remains widely used due to its legacy and compatibility with existing applications.

Panmnesia developed a low-latency CXL IP to expand GPU memory using PCIe-attached memory, allowing for faster AI and HPC workloads. The solution, CXL-Opt, achieves two-digit nanosecond latency and minimizes read/write latency, outperforming UVM and CXL-Proto in GPU kernel execution.

Bodhana Sivanandan, a 9-year-old British chess prodigy, is set to make history as the youngest person to represent England in an international sporting competition at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest. She has already caused a sensation in the chess world with her fearless play and string of spectacular victories, and is aiming to become a grandmaster and win the women's world title.

Packse is a tool for building, publishing, and managing packages, allowing for customization of scenarios, credentials, and local package indexes. It provides various commands, such as build, publish, view, and inspect, to manage packages and scenarios, with options for background running, offline testing, and more.

WhoDB is a lightweight and user-friendly database management tool written in GoLang, featuring interactive graphs for visualizing database schema and supporting lazy loading for efficient query results. It can run on minimal resources and supports various databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3, MongoDB, and Redis, with easy deployment options using Docker or Docker Compose.

The author argues that despite having more technology than any previous generation, people are not necessarily more relaxed, as the technology is often used to speed up production and consumption, leading to increased stress and burnout. The author suggests that the only way to break out of this cycle is to recognize the illusions generated by the system and strive to build balances of power ...

The authors thank conference participants for comments and acknowledge errors are their own. The views expressed do not reflect the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the study is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Science Foundation, and Lynde and Harry Bradley.

The user created a CSS effect that radiates lines from a face to canvas, similar to a manga or anime style, using two elements, pseudo-elements, and custom properties. The effect is customizable and can be applied to any image, but is not efficient for production use due to its animation requirements.

The author has self-published their book "Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python" and shares their experience with the process, including using Quarto to compile the book and WooCommerce to set up the webstore. The author discusses the pros and cons of self-publishing, including control over pricing and formatting, and notes that they expect most sales to come from personal advertising ...

Seth Berkley, a global health leader, criticized the US response to the avian influenza outbreak among dairy cattle, citing ineptitude in surveillance, tracking, and vaccine development. Berkley expressed concern that the virus could evolve to infect people more easily, emphasizing the need for a robust surveillance system to prepare for potential pandemics.

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A father's moment of distraction with his toddler son in a cafe highlights the importance of giving time and attention to loved ones and oneself, as well as the struggle to do so in a world filled with distractions. The author, a psychotherapist, reflects on her own experiences and the importance of developing the discipline and emotional capacity to pay attention, which is crucial for ...

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Meditation has evolved from a fringe activity to a mainstream health practice, with research showing its benefits for mental health and well-being, and a new wave of studies exploring advanced meditation states and their potential for deep psychological transformation. The study of advanced meditation holds promise for developing new therapeutic approaches and understanding the neural ...

The user argues that plain text is not a suitable format for system logs due to the difficulty in handling rich metadata, and that storing logs in plain text can lead to clutter, complexity, or loss of metadata. The user suggests that structured logs with metadata or storing logs in a format like JSON may be more effective, but these formats are not truly plain text.

The C and C++ standard libraries on Windows are broken, causing issues with portable software development, and Microsoft's C runtime has defined how the standard library should work on the platform. A library named libwinsane solves these problems by providing a "magic switch" to enable UTF-8 and binary streams, making it easier to develop portable software on Windows.

The author implemented a high-performance matrix multiplication algorithm on a CPU, achieving over 1 TFLOPS of peak performance across a wide range of matrix sizes, and compared it to NumPy's performance. The algorithm uses cache blocking and parallelization with OpenMP directives to optimize data reuse and reduce main memory accesses, and is designed to work for arbitrary matrix sizes.