The author created a website called One Million Checkboxes, which unexpectedly became popular, with 500,000 players checking over 650,000,000 boxes in two weeks. The site's success led to a community of users creating secret messages and animations using the checkboxes, which the author found surprising and creative, and ultimately shut down the site.

The user's Advantage Air air conditioning system's Android tablet failed, and despite being out of warranty, the company refused to sell them a replacement tablet, instead offering to replace the entire system for $1697. The user, determined to fix the issue themselves, successfully modified the tablet's software to work with their existing system, using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 and some ...

The Known Crewmember (KCM) program allows pilots and flight attendants to bypass security screening, but a vulnerability in the FlyCASS system allowed unauthorized access to KCM and CASS. The vulnerability was disclosed to the Department of Homeland Security, but the TSA's response was inaccurate and incomplete, and the issue was not fully remediated.

The user found a block of ASCII art code and wanted to understand how it was implemented, so they asked ChatGPT to explain the code, which provided a breakdown of the JavaScript code's functions and components. The user then asked ChatGPT to implement equivalent code in TypeScript and make it human-readable, receiving a response that was good enough to learn from, despite overlooking a few ...

Elastic is adding the AGPL license option to Elasticsearch and Kibana, allowing them to be called Open Source again, after previously changing the license due to market confusion with AWS. The change aims to provide users with more options and pave a path towards more Open Source in the world, while also addressing concerns and misconceptions about the previous license change.

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A bill which paves the way for closer regulatory alignment with the European Union almost slipped under the radar. As the U.K. and the EU enter a new era, their relationship is likely to gradually become more Swiss. Berlin wants to expand the British prime minister’s proposed security pact into a broader EU-UK “reset.”

Researchers at University of St Andrews, Imperial College London, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and Brave Software found that Google's Related Website Sets feature, designed to allow sites run by the same organization to share information, is harmful to user privacy and reintroduces the kinds of privacy harms caused by third-party cookies. The study found that users cannot ...

A recent Third Circuit Court decision has rolled back Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which granted big tech firms a liability shield for hosting user-generated content. The decision holds that tech platforms are responsible for the content they curate and recommend, and could have significant implications for the business models of companies like Facebook, Google, and TikTok.

A US District Court judge ruled that Tennessee's TennCare Connect system, built by Deloitte, illegally denied Medicaid and benefits to thousands due to programming and data errors. The system, launched in 2019, failed to consider applicants for all available programs, leading to incorrect eligibility determinations and benefit denials.

The cost of solar panels has been decreasing by 12% annually, but recent increases in supply chain costs, inflation, and other factors have slowed down this trend. However, experts predict that solar panel costs will continue to decline as manufacturers focus on reducing soft costs, such as design, engineering, and installation, and as efficiency gains and technological advancements improve.

AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver cannot add HDMI 2.1+ features due to the HDMI Forum's legal requirements, which have been rejected by the forum. As a result, AMD recommends Linux users to switch to DisplayPort instead, as HDMI 2.1+ feature support remains unavailable in open-source drivers.

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A solar concentrator uses mirrors to focus sunlight onto a target, producing up to 1000 watts of heat while consuming 3.8 watts of electrical power. The system requires manual orientation and continuous monitoring, and does not work on cloudy days, but can be built by hand with common tools.

The course provides a step-by-step guide to engineering optimal prompts in Claude, with 9 chapters, exercises, and an appendix of advanced methods. The course uses Claude 3 Haiku, a small and fast model, and includes an example playground and answer key for practice and troubleshooting.

Screen 5.0.0 release includes new features like password protection, customizable status window, and truecolor support. The release is available for download and users are encouraged to report any bugs or regressions.

Google's dominance in the search market is due to its massive investment in building a high-quality search index, user index, and advertiser index, which creates a self-feeding cycle that is difficult to challenge. To promote competition and innovation in the search market, the authors propose mandating fair access to the search index or treating it as an essential facility, allowing other ...

This updated pico-rmii-ethernet library offers greater flexibility in choosing system clocks (100-300 MHz) and uses DMA-driven ring buffers for transmit and receive operations. The library also features interrupt-driven MDIO and five DMA channels, allowing for improved performance and freeing up processor time for packet processing.

Onlook is a browser-powered visual editor that integrates with React and TailwindCSS, allowing live edits and codebase control. The project has released its first version and is actively maintained, with demo projects and a roadmap available for review and contribution.

Ibis is deprecating the pandas and Dask backends and will remove them in version 10.0, recommending the DuckDB backend instead due to its performance and ease of use. The pandas backend was added to allow users to try Ibis without installing a database, but it never fit well with Ibis' deferred execution model and is often slower than using pandas directly.

Cloudflare is experiencing a connection issue with the origin web server, preventing the web page from loading. To help troubleshoot, users can submit error logs from their web server, including the Ray ID, to Cloudflare's support team.

Raspberry Pi launched the 2GB Pi 5 with a new BCM2712 D0 stepping, which is simpler and cheaper to make due to removed "dark silicon". The 2GB Pi 5 has performance limitations, but is a good option for those who can run their apps with 2GB of RAM, and the D0 chip offers improved efficiency and reduced idle power consumption.

The narrator, a man, has been suffering from hypercalcemia and vitamin D toxicity for over two years, despite numerous medical tests and treatments, and has been experiencing symptoms such as fatigue, thirst, and muscle weakness. He eventually discovers that his wife, Kim, has been poisoning him by adding vitamin D to his food and water, and that she has been manipulating him and hiding her ...

The user is looking for a simple and fast blogging solution, considering Geppetto and a .tv domain, but is concerned about a GoDaddy domain broker's claim that a reserved domain is owned by a third party.

CodeViz is a VS Code extension that generates interactive diagrams of codebases, including call graphs and architecture diagrams, to help developers navigate and understand complex code. The extension is currently free with a paid tier for more advanced features, and the developers are seeking feedback and suggestions to improve the extension and its pricing model.

The post discusses tricks for jailbreaking hosts behind "secure" enterprise firewalls to enable arbitrary inbound and outbound requests. It covers creating a proxy, encrypting traffic, and using reverse tunnels to bypass firewalls and gain command-line access to internal hosts.

Closure Library has been archived. We no longer see it as meeting the needs of modern JavaScript development, and we recommend that users look for alternative solutions.

Researchers have proven that entanglement, a phenomenon in quantum physics, vanishes completely above a specific temperature in mathematical models of quantum systems. The discovery was made by a team of computer scientists who stumbled upon the proof while developing a new algorithm for quantum computers, and has excited researchers in the field.

Instagram's Head of Threads announced integration with the Fediverse, allowing replies and likes to Threads posts. This move may be a strategic step towards open systems, potentially driven by regulatory pressure or competition.

Docusaurus is a tool that helps create and manage documentation for projects, allowing for customization, localization, and versioning, and has been used by various organizations and projects. It provides a simple and efficient way to create and maintain documentation, and has been praised for its ease of use and flexibility.

The user wanted to access a private AI server on fly.io from their k3s cluster without setting up a VPN or exposing the server to the internet. They created a Go program called glaceon that uses wireguard-go and netstack to establish a userspace TCP/IP connection, allowing their k3s apps to access the AI server via an HTTP reverse proxy.

Hut 6 at Bletchley Park broke German Enigma ciphers, transforming from a small team to a hardened unit of hundreds by 1944. The team's work contributed to Allied victories, including the Battle of Normandy, and is being commemorated with special episodes to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

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DuckDuckGo is expanding its team and seeking senior software engineers to join their fully distributed team. The company uses Swift Package Manager and SwifLint, and has updated its terminology to be more inclusive, with resources available on their Help Center for more information.

As a recent grad, you've already read several influential books on software development and are looking for more recent recommendations. You're seeking book suggestions for software engineers in 2024, as the ones on Coding Horror's list seem outdated.

Intel's failure to secure the contract to design the SoC for the first iPhone was not due to a single decision or event, but rather a series of missed opportunities and strategic errors over almost two decades. The company's focus on x86 architecture and its struggles in the mobile market, combined with its lack of commitment to the XScale business, ultimately led to its exclusion from the ...

KDE is asking for donations to sustain its growth and development, as its costs increase with its popularity, and a yearly notification will be shown in Plasma 6.2 to remind users of the importance of donations. The goal is to raise more money to employ more people, fund the creation of a next-generation KDE OS, and promote the software to other major distros and vendors.

Albert Einstein, a renowned physicist, shares his thoughts on various topics, including his views on relativity, gravity, and the nature of the universe. He also discusses his personal life, including his marriage, his relationships with his children, and his views on politics and society.

Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection, a feature that confines cookies to the site where they were created, preventing tracking companies from tracking users across sites. This feature is part of Firefox's efforts to provide the most private and secure major browser available, and it will be enabled by default for all Firefox desktop users worldwide.

This Python training is an introduction to numerical computing and data visualization for JPMorgan business analysts and traders, with a focus on accessibility for those without formal programming backgrounds. The training is conducted in-person by J.P. Morgan technologists and traders, and is licensed under the Apache 2 license.

The number of floats between 0 and 1 is approximately the same as the number of floats between 1 and positive infinity. The correct answer is 1,065,353,216, which can be calculated by subtracting the bit representation of 0.0f from that of 1.0f.

A study found that a type 2 diabetes drug, SGLT-2 inhibitors, may lower the risk of dementia by 35%, with a 39% reduced risk for Alzheimer's disease and 52% for vascular dementia. The study suggests repurposing existing drugs to treat dementia could be a promising approach, potentially speeding up testing and making treatment cheaper.

This tool converts videos into ASCII pixel art using webcam feed or uploaded videos, with adjustable colors, resolution, and text style. The tool is free, open-source, and can be used for personal or commercial purposes, with optional donations to support the developer's late-night coding sessions.

If you used Google’s Incognito “private browsing” between 2016-2023, You may be entitled to up to $5,000 compensation based on California statutory damages available for privacy violations. There is no cost to join. In a contingent fee case, attorneys only receive payment if your claim is successful, with no upfront costs or fees for you to file.

The discussion revolves around the challenges of integrating Rust into the FreeBSD base system, with some arguing that it's too difficult due to the need for a separate toolchain and others suggesting that it's possible with careful planning. The conversation also touches on the limitations of machine translation and the difficulties of translating between languages from different language ...

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X (formerly Twitter) to name a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours or face suspension of its operations. The feud between X and de Moraes began over free speech, misinformation, and accounts associated with the far-right, with X claiming to be a victim of censorship.

Fastmail introduces memos, a feature allowing users to add private notes to emails, which can be searched and accessed from the message list or other email apps. Memos are only visible to the user and can be added to personal messages, but are not available for shared messages in multi-user accounts.

Patchwork Technologies is building a next-generation logging and observability platform that automatically adds actionable structured logs to code, providing rich debugging context for engineers. The platform aims to simplify log implementation, improve log quality, and provide benefits for storage and query time, and is seeking feedback from the community.

Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, was charged in France with crimes including enabling illegal transactions, child sexual abuse material, and fraud, and was barred from leaving the country. He was released on bail and must check in with police twice a week, amid concerns over Telegram's lack of cooperation with law enforcement.

A Turkish man, Ramazan, sent a message to his wife Emine, but due to a cell phone localization issue, the message was misinterpreted, leading to a tragic misunderstanding. The misinterpretation arose from the replacement of Turkish vowel letters, causing the message to be misread as a sexual reference instead of its intended meaning.

Magic is developing ultra-long context models that can reason on up to 100M tokens of context during inference, which could revolutionize software development and code synthesis. The company has trained a 100M token context model, LTM-2-mini, which is roughly 1000x cheaper and requires much less memory than current models, and has achieved strong results in code synthesis tasks.

The author, a Julia user, shares their experience learning Rust and highlights the differences between the two languages, including Rust's focus on systems programming, memory safety, and compile-time guarantees. The author provides a list of resources for learning Rust, including books, tutorials, and projects, and shares their own struggles and insights, including the importance of ...

docker build -t docker-osx --build-arg SHORTNAME=sonoma . Unable to find image 'sickcodes/docker-osx:sonoma' locally docker: Error response from daemon: pull access denied for sickcodes/docker-osx, repository does not exist or may requir...

Apple has introduced a tool, Applebot-Extended, allowing publishers to opt out of its AI training data collection, with many prominent news outlets and social platforms already taking advantage of it. The move reflects a shift in the perception and use of web crawlers, with publishers seeking to protect their intellectual property and control how their data is used in AI training.

Students trapped by Anaconda can recover by dragging a file, without using commands or editing files. This allows them to run an official version of Python, and they can easily switch between Anaconda and official Python by moving a file.

The user discovered websim.ai, a web that doesn't exist, and spent the evening exploring and creating sites, including a clone of everytimezone and a site showcasing North Wales to a Japanese audience. The user encourages others to try websim.ai and praises the team's efforts to make web development easier, including supporting Chrome releases and creating developer tools.

California's DMV has added Google Wallet as an option to store digital driver's licenses and ID cards, making it easier for participants to access their mobile driver's licenses. Over 500,000 Californians have already added the mobile driver's license to their smartphones, with plans to expand acceptance and uses in the future.

Scientists have successfully detected Earth's ambipolar electric field, a weak, planet-wide electric field that drives the "polar wind" and lifts charged particles in the upper atmosphere to greater heights. The discovery, made using a NASA suborbital rocket, confirms the existence of the ambipolar field and its role in shaping the ionosphere, with implications for understanding the evolution ...

Hawaii residents can add their REAL ID-compliant driver's licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet starting August 28, 2024, allowing them to present digital IDs for age verification and other purposes. The digital IDs are encrypted and secure, with users having control over what information is shared and when, and the state-issuing authority only receives necessary information for approval or denial.

The user suggests that a "paywall" tag or solution would be useful to avoid wasting clicks on paywalled content, but notes that it's a tricky problem due to varying paywall types and regional restrictions. Instead, the user proposes alternative solutions such as including archive links in comments or using browser extensions to highlight paywalled sites, and suggests that banning paywall ...

NPR's link to a story about an Arlington Cemetery event was marked as "unsafe" on X, requiring users to click "Ignore this warning and continue" to access the story. X later corrected the issue, marking the link as a "false positive", amid ongoing tensions between NPR and X.

The user created a list of new Java language features introduced since their last interest in new Java features, categorizing them by type (language, library, or virtual machine). The list includes features from various JDK releases, excluding trivial or preview features, and covers topics such as garbage collection, memory allocation, and language syntax improvements.

Rahul Vohra, the founder and CEO of Superhuman, shares his journey to find product/market fit, which he defines as when users would be "very disappointed" if they couldn't use the product. He developed a process to measure product/market fit, segment users, and create a roadmap to increase the score, which ultimately led to a significant increase in user satisfaction and growth for Superhuman.

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In New York City, nearly one million bus riders, or half of all passengers, skip paying fares daily, causing a significant revenue loss for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Despite this, public officials have focused on subway fare enforcement, leaving bus fare evasion largely unchecked, resulting in substantial financial losses for the MTA.

The user was banned from Airbnb without explanation, likely due to a misfire from the platform's ML model, and was unable to appeal the decision. The user believes the ban was an error and is concerned about the impact on their life and business, as they had hundreds of positive reviews and planned to continue hosting on the platform.

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A Rust-based CLI tool that generates and executes terminal commands using OpenAI's language models or local Ollama models. The app will generate a command based on your prompt and ask for confirmation before execution. A config.json file will be created in the same directory as the binary on first run. You can modify this file to change the default model and token limit.

In medieval Europe, trials by combat, known as judicial duels, were used to resolve complex rape and sexual assault charges, with the burden of proof often falling on the victim. These duels, which involved a man and woman fighting to the death, were used to discourage women from bringing unwitnessed rape accusations to court, and their legacy continues to influence modern legal systems and ...

Add a Google Meet link to your website's header or footer to enable AI Assistant to join meetings and take notes. MinutesLink's AI technology learns your communication style and thought patterns to create a personal digital avatar that can perform tasks and make decisions on your behalf.

Researchers have developed a smart face mask that can continuously monitor exhaled breath condensate (EBC) biomarkers, enabling real-time assessment of respiratory health and potential diagnosis of various diseases, including COVID-19, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The mask uses a tandem cooling strategy, automated microfluidics, and electrochemical biosensors to ...

The explosion of data in the digital age raises questions about governance, control, and preservation, echoing concerns from the introduction of paper in Europe in the 11th century. The history of the early modern information state reminds us that data governance is inherently political, requiring democratic processes and attention to the past to inform our decisions about data collection, ...

AIExh offers one stop information for GitHub repo management and code search in AI projects. Boost productivity, improve teamwork, and navigate AI code-bases effortlessly.

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SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster crashed during an attempted landing on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean, marking the first failure to recover a booster since 2021. The setback follows another incident in July when a second-stage exploded, and SpaceX has postponed a second launch to review data from the botched landing.

The user asked questions about palindromes, government branches, square footage, musical instruments, and mathematical terms. The questions covered topics such as definitions, constitutional branches, area calculations, and numerical concepts.

Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that Google's dominance in general search allows it to manipulate local search results and stifle competition, harming consumers and local search rivals. Google's self-preferencing of its own content and exclusion of rival content from search results has degraded the quality of search results and prevented innovation in the local search market.