The author built a side project, a set of scripts for technical analysis in TradingView, which earned him over $15,000, but eventually became a burden due to the time-consuming maintenance and customer support. He decided to sell the project and automate most of the tasks, freeing up his time and allowing him to focus on other projects.

The user built a cryptocurrency trading and data gathering tool and started selling it, but found that supporting customers was taking up too much time due to the quality of support requests. The user attributes this to the increasing use of AI programming tools, which can create unrealistic expectations and lead to customers offloading software engineering tasks to the developer.

The Semantic Web, also known as Web 3.0, is a concept that has been widely adopted, with many websites adding machine-readable metadata to their pages using JSON-LD, a format for encoding Semantic Web metadata. This metadata helps search engines, social media sites, and other bots understand the content of web pages, leading to improved search results, link previews, and other benefits, and ...

The Heavy Press Program was a US Department of Defense initiative in the 1950s to build large forging and extrusion presses to produce aircraft parts, which led to significant cost and performance improvements in military aircraft manufacturing. The program's success also had spin-off benefits for other industries, including commercial aircraft, spacecraft, and automotive manufacturing, and ...

This script disables the "dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled" setting in Firefox to improve privacy. It can be run using the command "curl https://make-firefox-private-again.com | sh" and verified by setting the same option to false in about:config.

Jessie Peterson's family spent a year searching for her after being told she left a California hospital against medical advice, only to discover she had been dead since April 2023. The hospital is being sued for negligence, mishandling of her corpse, and emotional distress, with the family seeking over $5 million in damages.

The author reflects on the importance of discernment in a subject, citing the example of a piano tuner who has developed a high level of expertise and can detect subtle imperfections in a piano's tuning. The author notes that only a few people possess the level of discernment needed to truly appreciate the nuances of a piano's tuning, and that if this expertise is lost, the quality of pianos ...

ShadPS4 is a PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS written in C++. The project is still in development, with regular commits, and users can find debugging information and testing instructions on the project's documentation.

Linux has reached a new milestone in desktop market share. As of July 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.45% market share for desktop operating systems worldwide.

Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding human imagination through design, infrastructure, and AI. They are seeking help to scale and build humanist infrastructure, and invite interested individuals to email them or join their Discord for support and questions.

The Financial Times offers a free trial with limited access, including reading articles and newsletters, and a paid subscription for AU$95/month or AU$760/year. The paid subscription provides complete digital access to FT journalism on any device, with the option to cancel anytime.

Fly.io, a public cloud, aims to make cloud computing more accessible and affordable by introducing a new billing system that offers refunds for unexpected charges and provides a line-item veto on invoices. The company is working on improving its billing system to prevent unexpected charges and is committed to making cloud computing more user-friendly and cost-effective.

The author suggests that the Rye packaging tool should be retired in favor of uv, which has improved significantly and is poised to dominate the Python packaging space. The author encourages the community to rally around uv and consider recommending it to new developers, aiming to simplify the Python packaging landscape and improve the developer experience.

ERCOT set records for demand, solar generation, and battery discharge on August 20th, 2024, with prices near the cap due to a shift in resource mix and high net load. Despite high demand, ERCOT didn't issue a general call for conservation, indicating confidence in the grid's resources, and solar generation could still set new peaks in the future.

The author discusses the challenges of achieving real gains from SIMD in game development, citing examples of piecemeal vector math and game physics computations that cannot be gathered into SIMD instructions. The author then describes how graph coloring can be used to solve multiple contact constraints simultaneously using SIMD, and shares their experience implementing this technique in ...

The project implements a synthesizer that generates handwriting-style fonts at runtime using a lightweight RNN model, allowing users to type text and see it rendered in real-time. The synthesizer uses an RNN model to predict pen positions and Bresenham's line algorithm to rasterize the strokes, resulting in a highly optimized TTF file.

Vasilis, a lecturer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, emphasizes the importance of teaching HTML's interactive elements, such as links and forms, to students, as they provide a better user experience. He suggests focusing on the practical benefits of HTML, rather than theoretical semantics, to engage students and promote a deeper understanding of web development.

Euclid's proof assumes √2 is a rational number p/q, showing that p and q can be simplified, but this cannot be done infinitely, leading to a contradiction. This infinite descent method proves that √2 cannot be written as a simplified rational number p/q.

Sun Cable has secured approval from the Australian government for the Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPowerLink) interconnector, which will connect Australia's Northern Territory with Singapore via 4,300km of subsea cable. The project aims to deliver up to 4GW of green electricity to Darwin and surrounding regions, and 1.75GW to Singapore, with electricity supply expected to commence in the early 2030s.

Scientists have long believed that extremal black holes, which have zero surface gravity, cannot exist in the real world, but two mathematicians have now proved that they can form according to our known laws of physics. The discovery has implications for our understanding of the universe and could potentially lead to new insights into the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity.

The article discusses the limitations of GPU utilization as a metric for understanding GPU performance, highlighting that it can be misleading and does not accurately reflect the actual usage of the GPU's computational power. The authors instead recommend tracking SM efficiency, which measures the percentage of SMs active in a given time interval, to get a more accurate picture of GPU ...

Turnstyle is a new graphical programming language inspired by Piet, aiming to address its limitations and create a functional variant based on Lambda Calculus. The language's design focuses on simplicity and expressiveness, allowing for the creation of Abstract Syntax Graphs and enabling more efficient recursion.

The "euphemism treadmill" is a natural process where language changes to reflect shifting societal attitudes and opinions, requiring periodic replacement of terms to avoid negative associations. This process is inevitable and necessary, as language lags behind thought and opinion, and words can become tainted by their historical context.

Google is winding down its Google Play Security Reward Program, a bug bounty program that paid security researchers to find vulnerabilities in popular Android apps, due to a decrease in actionable vulnerabilities reported. The program, launched in 2017, aimed to incentivize security researchers to find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in Android apps, but its success has led to a ...

A pricing engine application experiences RAM issues due to different memory characteristics depending on the allocator used, with mimalloc providing a 10% performance boost. The issue is resolved by keeping all refreshing on the same thread, avoiding the problem of mimalloc's bookkeeping not happening when threads sleep.

Ares is developing a new class of anti-ship cruise missiles that are 10x smaller and 10x cheaper than existing options, aiming to fill the US military's munitions gap. The company's founders, Alex and Devan, are veterans of defense startups and aim to deliver early working missile systems to customers by mid-2025, seeking talented aerospace engineers to help bring their prototypes to fruition.

Researchers analyzed human brain, liver, and kidney samples from 2016 and 2024 and found that micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) selectively accumulate in the brain, with concentrations increasing over time. The study used pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) to quantify MNP concentrations and found that polyethylene was the predominant polymer, with brain samples exhibiting ...

Code review can be used for both positive and negative purposes, with the latter including tactics such as nitpicking, delaying, and obstructing improvements to the code. Abusing the temporary authority granted by being a code reviewer can lead to negative consequences, including damaging relationships and hindering the development of the software project.

Researchers have developed a new type of motor that uses electrostatics instead of electromagnetism, which could offer a significant boost in efficiency and use cheaper materials. The motor, developed by C-Motive Technologies, is capable of delivering high torque and power and has the potential to be used in a wide range of industrial applications.

Shan Hanes, the former CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for embezzling $47 million from the bank to fund a cryptocurrency scam, which he was duped into believing would yield high returns. Hanes' actions led to the bank's collapse and the loss of millions of dollars for investors, with many victims still struggling to recover from the financial losses.

Kill the Newsletter! is a service that converts emails into Atom feed entries, allowing users to subscribe to newsletters using their feed reader. However, some newsletter publishers block Kill the Newsletter! or require manual verification, and users should be aware of potential issues and limitations when using the service.

ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using Earth's gravity to send it Venus-bound and saving around 100-150 kg of fuel. The flyby allowed Juice to test its scientific instruments and gather data, and will also enable it to reach Jupiter's moon Ganymede closer than originally planned.

Outerport is a distribution network for AI model weights that enables "hot-swapping" of AI models to save on GPU costs, allowing for faster model loading and reduced waste of expensive hardware. The system uses caching and compression to optimize model loading and can achieve a 40% reduction in GPU running time costs, making it a viable business opportunity.

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a good alternative to supervised learning in recent years, with Masked Autoencoders being a popular approach. Researchers have developed various methods to apply Masked Autoencoders to videos, including VideoMAE, MGMAE, and ARVideo, which address unique challenges such as temporal redundancy and information leakage.

Permify is an open-source authorization service that enables fine-grained, scalable, and extensible access controls for applications and services, inspired by Google's Zanzibar system. It allows for centralized and standardized authorization, granular permissions, and scalable response times, making it easy to build and manage access controls in minutes to days.

Eli Lilly's weight loss drug tirzepatide reduced the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 94% in obese or overweight adults with pre-diabetes, with patients experiencing sustained weight loss over a three-year treatment period. The drug also showed promise in treating other conditions, including heart failure, sleep apnea, and fatty liver disease, with a consistent safety profile and mild to ...

Jensen's inequality is a fundamental result in applied mathematics, bounding expectations of functions of random variables. It has numerous applications in data science, information theory, and optimization, including non-negative matrix factorization and expectation-maximization algorithms.

The bodies of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah have been recovered from the sunken yacht Bayesian, which capsized off the coast of Sicily during a storm. The yacht was carrying 22 people, including Lynch and his co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain, who was also acquitted in the US fraud case.

The article discusses common cryptographic mistakes, specifically "YOLO" constructions that are ad-hoc solutions to problems that have already been solved, and provides guidance on how to use established cryptographic functions instead. It highlights the importance of using well-studied and vetted solutions, such as HMAC, KMAC, and modern password KDFs, to ensure the security of cryptographic systems.

The author reflects on Unity's journey from a small game engine to a leading platform, highlighting its growth, changes, and challenges, including the impact of venture capital investment, the pursuit of high-end AAA games, and the fragmentation of the product. The author suggests that Unity's future success depends on refocusing on its core strengths, such as ease of prototyping, ...

The Super Nintendo's graphics system consists of four chips: Pixel Processing Units 1 and 2 (PPU1 and PPU2), and two 8-bit SRAM chips. The PPU1 is the brain, addressing VRAM, while the PPU2 is a compositor, generating the video signal, with the CPU controlling both chips.

Microsoft's recent update caused Linux devices to fail to boot, displaying an error message, due to an unintended incompatibility with Linux EFI shim bootloaders. Affected users can temporarily resolve the issue by disabling Secure Boot, deleting the SBAT policy, and re-enabling Secure Boot, but Microsoft has yet to acknowledge the error or provide technical guidance.

The FreeBSD project has been working on enhancing the audio stack, improving wireless networking, and developing a complete AMD IOMMU driver to support more than 256 CPU cores. The project has also made progress on RISC-V support, including experimental hypervisor support in Bhyve, and is developing a low-cost conditional execution mechanism called Zcond.

Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs warns residents to disable home surveillance systems and dating apps to prevent Ukraine from gathering intel. The warnings aim to protect high-value Russian individuals, including military personnel, from being captured and having their devices combed for information.

The US economy added fewer jobs in 2023 and early 2024 than previously reported, with a downward revision of 28% in job growth. The revised numbers suggest a more severe labor market slowdown, which Federal Reserve officials are closely monitoring as they consider interest rate changes.

VirtualStorageLibrary is a .NET library that provides a tree structure collection for managing hierarchical data structures, supporting items, directories, and symbolic links. It offers a user-friendly API for referencing, traversing, and manipulating nodes via path specification, with features like link resolution, circular reference checks, and filtering and grouping of nodes.

ScreenPlay is an open-source app for displaying wallpapers, widgets, and app drawers, supporting various formats and allowing customization with QML. It features hot reloading, a weather API, and a Steam Workshop for sharing community-created content, making it a powerful and user-friendly tool.

Antonio Pigafetta, a chronicler of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation, first mentioned a "lost day" incident during the voyage. Similar phenomena were later observed by other explorers, including Francis Drake, Francesco Carletti, and Dutch navigators, including Jacob le Maire.

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirmed that the company will not bring back the old S2 app, citing updates to the software on speakers and in the cloud that make the old app less reliable and stable. Spence apologized for the disappointment and promised to engage with users on Reddit to address their concerns.

Moom 4 is a new window management tool available for macOS 10.13 or later, with a revamped user interface and new features such as a customizable pop-up palette, hover-based window management, and non-app-specific saved layouts. The app is available for purchase directly from Many Tricks, with a launch sale price of $10 for new users and $6 for existing Moom 3 customers, and offers a free ...

Quarkslab researchers discovered a backdoor in millions of contactless cards made by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group, allowing attackers to clone cards and read/write content with physical proximity. The backdoor affects FM11RF08S and FM11RF08 cards, which are widely used in public transportation and hospitality industries, and can be exploited to compromise all user-defined keys.

Memory-mapped IO can be problematic when used with co-operative concurrency, such as async/await, as it can lead to blocking and sequential execution, rather than true concurrency. This is because the operating system may need to load data from disk into memory, which can block the thread and prevent the async executor from running another task.

The user believes the preliminary benchmark revision estimate is -915,000, not -818,000, and questions how the latter number was reported without question. They argue that the discrepancy is due to a mix of seasonally-adjusted and unadjusted numbers, and that the BLS's reporting of the estimate is unclear.

ESET warns of a new phishing tactic targeting iOS and Android users with web applications mimicking legitimate banking software to steal login credentials. The phishing apps, disguised as Progressive Web Applications or WebAPKs, can bypass security protections and appear as regular native apps on Android devices, without triggering any warnings.

Go's "structural typing" is often confused with "duck typing", but they differ in that structural typing is static and checks type compatibility at compile time, while duck typing is dynamic and checks type compatibility at runtime. The Go language does support duck typing through the use of "any" and type assertions, but it's not a recommended practice and can lead to runtime errors.

Blockchains are not a general-purpose technology and have limited use-cases, with decentralized currencies being one of the few successful applications. Despite the hype, blockchains are not a solution for most problems and are often plagued by issues such as slow transaction times, high costs, and lack of trust, leading to limited adoption.

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James Munro, Head of ArcticDB at Man Group, discussed the challenges of building a database for high-frequency data and data science workflows, and how ArcticDB was designed to address these challenges. He explained that the database was built without separate database servers, using a serverless architecture that relies on good storage technologies and a data structure that supports ...

The author built a side project, a set of scripts for technical analysis in TradingView, which earned him over $15,000, but eventually became a burden due to the time-consuming maintenance and customer support. He decided to sell the project and automate most of the tasks, freeing up his time and allowing him to focus on other projects.

You're trying to find a place to buy in a small city with limited real estate listings and no updated online information, and you're considering using OpenStreetMaps and ChatGPT to help you search. You've already written code to download images and rate neighborhoods, and you're planning to use a 360 camera to take pictures and look for "for sale" signs.

Qdrant's vector database uses immutable data structures to optimize performance and memory usage, leveraging techniques like perfect hashing and defragmentation. While immutable structures have trade-offs, Qdrant's architecture balances these with flexibility, allowing for efficient updates and adaptability to various workloads.

The author describes the design decisions behind the gc-arena crate, a system for safely fitting Rust with incremental garbage collection, and how it addresses challenges such as tracing values, finding garbage collector roots, and ensuring safe mutation. The crate uses various techniques, including proc-macros, generativity, and lifetime branding, to provide a safe and incremental garbage ...

Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison says American homeowners are in a "deferral mindset" due to high interest rates, leading to a slowdown in big-ticket discretionary projects. The company is lowering earnings expectations, but remains optimistic about a future inflection point, with analysts predicting rate cuts to boost the economy.

Software engineers should focus on creating revenue rather than optimizing tax structures, as it's unlikely to get in trouble for ignorance and premature optimization can kill businesses. It's okay to stumble through tax issues initially, and it's more important to make an extra dollar through marketing and sales than to save a dollar on optimization.

Whisper-WebUI is a Gradio-based browser interface for generating subtitles with post-processing speaker diarization using the pyannote model. To run the project, you need to have specific software installed, including Python, FFmpeg, and a Huggingface token, and can also use Docker for a more streamlined experience.

The IT industry is facing a crisis due to a combination of factors including inflation, recession, and global political uncertainty, leading to widespread layoffs, reduced investment, and increased financial difficulties for many companies. To recover and adapt to these challenges, companies need to rethink their business models, prioritize investing in their people, and focus on providing a ...

Global sea temperatures are cooling off rapidly, with the Atlantic Ocean experiencing a record-breaking shift from hot to cool temperatures, which could impact weather worldwide. The cooling trend is expected to continue, with the potential for an "Atlantic Niña" event, which could have ripple effects on weather patterns globally, including influencing hurricane activity and precipitation patterns.

The user reflects on their journey to starting a blog, overcoming fears of sharing their thoughts and opinions online, and finding confidence through writing about a personal experience. They share their story to encourage others to start their own blogs and share their authentic content, highlighting the benefits of reflection and connection through online writing.

The European Union's Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) system, which warns drivers of speed limit violations, has been criticized for being overly intrusive and annoying, with some owners reporting it affects their driving experience and workload. The system's lack of buffer zone and inability to be permanently turned off have raised concerns about driver freedom and the potential for ...

Data compression reduces data size by transmitting some data and instructions to reconstruct the rest. The author disputes Forman Acton's claim that quadratic interpolation compresses a table of sine values by a factor of 500, instead estimating a factor of 30.

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MIT's Class of 2028 has a lower proportion of students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups due to the Supreme Court's ban on considering race in undergraduate admissions. Despite this, MIT remains committed to diversity and is exploring new ways to increase access and affordability for students from all backgrounds.

The book "Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop" argues that nuclear power has failed to live up to its promise due to a combination of factors, including high construction costs, overcautious regulation, and a lack of competition in the industry. The author, Jack Devanney, proposes practical solutions to address these issues, including replacing the Linear No Threshold model with a more accurate ...

RunPod is the first cloud provider to offer AMD GPUs through dstack, ensuring vendor independence and portability across different hardware and cloud providers. Users can now specify AMD GPUs under resources and deploy AI models like Llama 3.1 70B in FP16 using TGI, with support for other frameworks and cloud providers to follow.

Google's AI "Reimagine" tool on the Pixel 9 series allows users to add realistic and disturbing imagery to photos, including wrecks, disasters, and corpses, with weak safeguards in place. The tool's ease of use and lack of robust identification methods raise concerns about the potential for misuse and the spread of misleading photos online.

Generational knowledge, or the knowledge children acquire from their parents, can have a profound impact on success at work, as it provides an intuitive sense of how to get ahead and access to social networks. To address the institutional problems of discrimination, bias, and advantage in the workplace, organizations can take active steps to close the generational knowledge gap through ...

A user disables OnStar cellular connectivity in their 2nd-generation Chevy Volt by disconnecting the cellular antenna and replacing it with a termination load, which is a reversible and tool-free process. This modification prevents the car from transmitting sensitive data, such as location and driving habits, to third parties, and can be done for a few dollars and a few minutes.

The author discusses the Night's Watch in Game of Thrones, arguing that it is a flawed institution that lacks a unifying religious creed and would likely collapse due to the lack of motivation for its members to stay on the wall. The author explores alternative solutions to maintaining a military presence on a frontier, including professional military service, military settlers, and religious ...

If you're unsure about a cell, leave it un-revealed. It's better to be safe than sorry! Pay attention to the numbers on revealed cells. They indicate the number of mines in the surrounding 8 cells. Use the numbers to your advantage and make deductions about the location of mines in the grid.

Brian Greene's book "The Elegant Universe" is being reissued in a 25th anniversary edition with additional preface and epilogue, while the author remains critical of string theory's hype and lack of experimental confirmation. Greene's new material in the book continues to promote string theory, dismissing criticisms and arguing that the theory is still a source of inspiration and progress in physics.

Rod McKuen, a poet and singer-songwriter, was a huge star in the 1960s and 1970s, known for his sentimental and romantic poetry and music, but his fame was short-lived and he eventually disappeared from the cultural landscape. Despite his decline, McKuen's legacy lives on through his music and poetry, which continue to be celebrated by fans and scholars, and his story serves as a reminder of ...

The terminal provides a command-line interface for automating tasks, searching files, and managing permissions, with commands like grep, cat, head, and sed. Various commands like find, xargs, and jq help with file management, data processing, and network testing, while tools like ping, telnet, and wget facilitate network interactions and file retrieval.

The user prefers movies for their visuals, music, or action, and has watched some films multiple times, including "What Dreams May Come", "The Fall", and "Back to the Future". They also mention their favorite movies, such as "The Sting", "Amadeus", and "Iron Monkey", and share some interesting facts about the improvisational film "Coherence".

The remontoire is a historical innovation in watchmaking that aims to provide a constant force to the balance wheel, reducing the effect of gravity on timekeeping. While it may not have significant practical value today, it remains a romantic and celebratory element in modern watchmaking, showcasing traditional skills and craftsmanship.

To record high-quality spoken word audio, use a decent microphone, record in a room with minimal reverberations, and process the audio using compression and normalization to reduce dynamic range and ensure consistent volume levels. The article provides detailed guidance on how to achieve this, including the use of command-line tools like ffmpeg and ffmpeg-normalize, and offers tips on ...

The author discusses the challenges of achieving real gains from SIMD in game development, citing examples of piecemeal vector math and game physics computations that cannot be gathered into SIMD instructions. The author then describes how graph coloring can be used to solve multiple contact constraints simultaneously using SIMD, and shares their experience implementing this technique in ...

King John's baggage train was lost in the Wash in October 1216, with the exact nature and value of the treasure still unknown. Despite numerous theories and excavations, the location and fate of the treasure remain a mystery, with only a few minor artefacts found so far.

Microsoft's recent update caused Linux devices to fail to boot, displaying an error message, due to an unintended incompatibility with Linux EFI shim bootloaders. Affected users can temporarily resolve the issue by disabling Secure Boot, deleting the SBAT policy, and re-enabling Secure Boot, but Microsoft has yet to acknowledge the error or provide technical guidance.

AI models generate responses based on algorithms and machine learning, which may be inaccurate or harmful. Users assume risk and should not upload confidential information or personal data.

Jason Mesut and Elizabeth Bacon reflect on the development of UX competence models, highlighting the importance of recognizing and respecting thoughtful work in the field. They invite collaboration to further develop the UX Sundial and Spectrum models, aiming to create a comprehensive assessment model for UX professionals and improve hiring practices.

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The user finds it difficult to track how they signed into accounts using third-party login options, and prefers to use a password manager to store unique usernames and passwords for each account. They believe using a password manager provides more control and security, and avoids the risks associated with third-party login options.

Microsoft's latest security update has caused issues on dual-boot Windows and Linux systems, preventing some Linux installs from booting. The update was intended to fix a vulnerability in the GRUB boot loader, but it has affected distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint, among others.