The Internet Archive (IA) appeals the district court's judgment that its scanning and distribution of copyrighted books without permission is not a fair use, and the Second Circuit affirms the decision, concluding that IA's use is not transformative and does not serve a significant public interest. The court also rejects IA's argument that the district court should have limited the injunction ...

The reMarkable 2 is a paper tablet that allows users to work in color and features a new Type Folio keyboard case accessory. It offers a distraction-free writing experience with customizable markers, folders, and search functions, and is suitable for note-taking, writing, and organization.

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The user explores the capabilities of the @property rule in CSS, creating a demo that showcases custom properties and animations. They also share techniques for achieving a shiny animated border effect and slowing down animations on hover, using @property to unlock new possibilities in CSS design.

Kagi introduces the Assistant, a user-friendly AI tool that provides on-demand features like Quick Answer, Summarize Page, and custom assistants, with no data harvesting, ads, or tracking. The Assistant is available on the Kagi Ultimate Plan for $25/month, with discounts for annual subscriptions, and offers unlimited usage with no hard limits.

Intel's struggles are due to its inability to adapt to the changing market, with its manufacturing business being held back by its design business and its design business being held back by its manufacturing business. The company's only hope is to spin off its manufacturing business and focus on designing chips, with the US government providing purchase guarantees to incentivize the new ...

The article discusses implementing a Tetris game using PostgreSQL's recursive Common Table Expressions (CTEs) and demonstrates how to use them to create a game loop, handle user input, and render the game. The implementation uses a combination of SQL queries, functions, and extensions, such as dblink, to create a functional Tetris game that can be played in a PostgreSQL database.

The AlphaFold3 project is an open-source implementation of the AlphaFold3 model, a research project aimed at advancing biomolecular structure prediction, with a focus on single-chain protein prediction and optimization for speed and memory efficiency. The project is still in its early phases and is not yet production-ready, but it is accepting beta testers and welcomes contributions from the ...

The author discusses the dysfunctionality of modern laptops' standby function, citing issues with overheating and battery drain, and argues that manufacturers have deprecating S3 sleep in favor of S0ix. The author concludes that consumers can still opt for laptops that support S3 sleep, stating their disapproval of the current state of S0ix.

Physicists at JILA have measured the nuclear clock transition in thorium-229 with unprecedented precision, marking a major milestone in the quest to use this unique nucleus to test the constancy of fundamental physical constants. The achievement opens up new possibilities for studying the fundamental laws of physics and could potentially reveal evidence for deeper, undiscovered physics.

The author reflects on their experience with self-hosting various services, including a Proxmox cluster, Mikrotik router, and UniFi WiFi, and highlights the benefits of learning new skills and gaining autonomy through self-hosting. Despite the challenges and downtime, the author concludes that self-hosting is worth the effort, as it allows for a deeper understanding of technology and ...

Python's standard library offers various advanced data structures and tools, including Deque, ChainMap, OrderedDict, namedtuple, defaultdict, and more, to help with data organization and manipulation. Additionally, Python provides modules for tasks such as debugging, statistics, machine learning, web browsing, and packaging code, making it a versatile and powerful language for a wide range of ...

Amazon is cracking down on distracted driving by warning drivers that singing along to the radio will trigger inward-facing dash cams, sparking controversy among drivers and raising questions about AI and surveillance.

Red Hat's decision to change how they distribute RHEL source code has sparked controversy, with some users migrating to Debian due to perceived corporate influence. However, Red Hat's implementation of SELinux provides robust security features, including default policies and container isolation, which Debian's AppArmor framework lacks.

Mathematics has long been the basis for advances in physics, with insights and intuitions from physics leading to breakthroughs in mathematics. The relationship between physics and math is rooted in the human brain's ability to recognize and appreciate mathematical patterns in nature, with the experience of mathematical beauty exciting the same parts of the brain as beautiful music, art, or poetry.

OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation provides automatic tracking of LLM and vector DB calls with just 2 lines of code, along with decorators to track functions. Laminar hosts background job queues of LLM pipelines, allowing users to design and deploy pipelines to track metrics and events.

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of publishers, stating that the Internet Archive's digital lending of books without permission is "widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation." The decision is a blow to the Internet Archive, which had argued that its controlled digital lending system was a legitimate way to provide access to books while respecting copyright laws.

Mem0 is an intelligent memory layer that enhances AI assistants and agents with personalized interactions, remembering user preferences and adapting to individual needs. It uses a hybrid database approach to manage and retrieve long-term memories, and can be used with various LLMs, including gpt-4o from OpenAI.

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, and Neal Stephenson, author and co-founder of Lamina1, discussed the Metaverse, its evolution, and its potential future. They emphasized the importance of open protocols, interoperability, and blockchain technology in building a decentralized and open Metaverse, where creators can build and monetize their experiences without being limited by a single company's ...

DAGitty is a browser-based environment for creating, editing, and analyzing causal diagrams, focusing on minimizing bias in empirical studies. It is free software, developed and maintained by Johannes Textor, with many algorithms implemented in collaboration with other researchers.

A 1-meter wide asteroid will enter Earth's atmosphere over the Philippines at 16:46 UTC on September 4, 2024, creating a bright fireball and potentially producing meteorites. This is the 9th time an asteroid has been spotted before impact, demonstrating improving planetary defense capabilities.

A recent court decision has blocked the US Federal Trade Commission's ban on non-compete agreements, which restrict workers' ability to switch jobs, and instead allows businesses to continue using these contracts. The decision has been met with disappointment from workers and the FTC, who argue that non-compete agreements unfairly limit job mobility and reduce salaries.

The cosine similarity is a widely used method to compare vectors, particularly in the context of LLM embeddings, as it measures the similarity of two vectors based on their direction, ignoring their length. The formula for cosine similarity involves the dot product of the vectors and the magnitudes of the vectors, which can be calculated in JavaScript using simple mathematical operations.

LÖVR is a beginner-friendly framework for creating VR experiences without extensive setup or programming knowledge, supporting various platforms and devices. It allows for easy creation of VR scenes with features like 3D models, physics, and animation, with a simple Lua scripting language.

Victor Reis and Thomas Rothvoss proved a new upper bound on the time required to solve integer programs, which is the first proven speed advance in decades. The algorithm, based on Daniel Dadush's work, can solve integer linear programs almost as well as solving one where the integer variable is only zero or one, but is not practical for everyday use due to exponential memory requirements.

The core of functional programming is thinking about data-flow rather than control-flow, which makes it easier to analyze and understand code, and to spot mistakes or dependencies between different parts of the program. This approach is not limited to programming languages, but can also be applied to other fields, such as cooking, where a functional programming-style recipe can help to ...

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Researchers found that some dogs can remember the name of a toy even after two years, suggesting they store object names in their long-term memory. The study's results have implications for understanding the evolution of human language, as memory is a key component of language.

Graphiti is a dynamic knowledge graph builder that creates and queries complex relationships between entities over time, handling changing relationships and maintaining historical context. It supports a wide range of applications, including sales, customer service, health, finance, and more, with features like temporal awareness, episodic processing, and hybrid search.

The paper predicts a long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns due to declining interest rates, increasing leverage, and rising effective corporate tax rates. The author uses data from S&P 500 nonfinancial firms to analyze the factors contributing to this slowdown.

Senior enlisted leaders on the USS Manchester's gold crew secretly installed and used a personal Wi-Fi network during a deployment in 2023, despite restrictions on internet access for operational security reasons. The scheme, led by Command Senior Chief Grisel Marrero, was uncovered and resulted in Marrero's relief, conviction, and sentence to a reduction in rank, as well as administrative ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft completed its second flight, reaching 10,400 feet and 277 mph, and tested landing gear and a new stability system. The company plans to conduct around 10 more tests before reaching supersonic speeds, aiming to revolutionize air travel with its Overture airliner.

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new class of RF circuits inspired by Origami, which can physically reconfigure circuits to operate differently, allowing for near-limitless radiation pattern reconfigurability in 5G/mm-Wave applications. The design uses a phased array antenna that can be folded and unfolded to change its radiation pattern, enabling applications such as 360° azimuth ...

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A Python script, retronews, allows users to browse Hacker News and Lobsters discussions with a nostalgic interface, similar to classical usenet and mail readers. The script provides customization options, such as key bindings and colors, and detects unread responses, but has limitations in handling large volumes of messages.

Goja, a JavaScript runtime library in the Golang ecosystem, allows for seamless integration with Go structs and offers a robust and transparent interaction between Go and JavaScript. The user explored Goja's features, including its ability to infer types, handle Go structs, and raise exceptions, and found it to be a powerful tool for embedding JavaScript within Go applications.

The SEC fined six major credit rating organizations a total of $49 million for failing to keep electronic communications, with Moody's and S&P Global Ratings paying the largest fines. The firms admitted to violating recordkeeping provisions and must hire compliance consultants, except for A.M. Best and Demotech, which cooperated with the investigation and were exempt from the requirement.

Daniel Mthimkhulu, former chief engineer at South Africa's Prasa, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for faking his qualifications, including a PhD from a German university. The sentence sends a strong message that white-collar crime will not go unpunished and highlights the need for basic checks when hiring people.

The article discusses a practical alternative to clipping RGB values outside the sRGB color space, using a gamut clipping algorithm that preserves lightness and chroma. The algorithm is implemented in C and includes functions to compute the maximum saturation for a given hue, find the cusp of the gamut triangle, and intersect a line with the gamut triangle.

Oakland Unified School District has transitioned to 100% electric buses, replacing diesel-chugging buses that pollute the air and contribute to chronic asthma among students. The electric buses, equipped with vehicle-to-grid technology, can charge their batteries and send energy back to the grid, helping to support the grid's renewable energy sources and reducing the district's transportation costs.

The user is frustrated that their SRE skills are being reduced to "devops" work, where they're expected to be an "ops monkey" for programmers, rather than a sysadmin and programmer. They share their experience of being rejected by a company that already has devops people, and highlight their own achievements in writing a C++ build tool and parallelizing its operations.

The author's child used an AI checker tool in their school-issued Chromebook, which suggested that their essay was 17% AI-written, despite the author's review and editing. The author argues that this tool is unreliable and may stifle creativity, as students may feel pressured to write in a way that avoids detection by the AI checker rather than expressing themselves authentically.

Microsoft confirmed that the Windows 11 24H2 update added a bug that allowed users to uninstall Recall, but this option had no functionality. The company plans to fix the bug and will roll out Recall to Copilot+ enabled PCs next month, but users will only be able to disable it, not uninstall it.

The Claude Enterprise plan offers expanded context windows, native GitHub integration, and enterprise-grade security features to help organizations securely collaborate with Claude and protect their data. The plan enables teams to scale expertise across projects, decisions, and teams, and provides a native integration with GitHub for engineering teams to work alongside their codebase.

California voters approved Proposition 22 in 2020, mandating better wages and health benefits for ride-hailing and delivery workers, but the state agencies responsible for enforcing the law have failed to ensure compliance, leaving workers in limbo. Despite the law's promises, many workers have reported not receiving the benefits they were promised, and the state's Industrial Relations ...

The author argues that modern consumer products, such as cartridge razors, are designed to extract more money from consumers rather than improve their lives, and that alternatives like double-edged razors are often cheaper and more environmentally friendly. The author also highlights other examples of products that have become more expensive and less sustainable due to purported convenience, ...

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To run NixOS tests interactively, build and run the test driver, then enter the Python debugger prompt to run commands interactively. Be cautious when using Ctrl-c/Ctrl-d, as it may end the session or cause issues, and consider running reset if problems occur.

Cloud services from tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and AWS have failed to deliver cost-effectiveness, with over a third of organizations reporting their cloud bills increased. Despite this, analysts predict the cloud will remain a dominant force, with CIOs advised to focus on ROI calculations and vendor lock-in to ensure they get the best value from their cloud services.

The Financial Times offers a 30-day free trial with no card details required, providing access to 8 daily articles and the FT Edit app. After the trial, subscription options include $75/month or $600/year, with the option to cancel or save 20% by paying upfront.

Scientists face friction when collaborating on papers due to separate environments for prose and computational parts, leading to difficulties in tracking changes and data provenance. A prototype collaboration environment integrates a web-based editor with provenance tracking, allowing seamless editing and rebuilding of data visualizations and outputs, and providing a map of the project's contents.

Realtalk is a communal computing system that allows people to work together in person, using physical materials and tools, to explore ideas and solve problems. It's a self-hosted system that enables people to create and share their own computational tools and models, fostering collaboration, learning, and community-driven innovation.

A tech failure opened the sluice gates in IJmuiden, allowing billions of liters of North Sea water to flow towards Amsterdam, but an alert employee closed the 14 locks to prevent a disaster. The cause of the glitch is unknown, but measures have been taken to prevent a similar crisis in the future, including moving operations to the IJmuiden complex and providing extra training to staff.

DraftKings was fined $19,000 by the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection for a technical glitch in an online slot game that failed to produce any winning paylines, and the company's handling of customer complaints was criticized. The glitch affected 522 customers who played the game without winning, and DraftKings refunded their wagers but failed to notify them of the reason for the refund.

Wedson Almeida Filho, a Rust for Linux project leader, is retiring due to "nontechnical nonsense" and lack of energy to respond. He believes the future of kernels is with memory-safe languages like Rust, but faces resistance from C-based kernel developers.

Wendy Carlos introduced alpha, beta, and gamma scales in 1986, which emphasize thirds and fifths over octaves. David Benson's derivation generalizes these scales, producing many Carlos-type scales.

Dolphin has released a new version, 2409, which includes several notable changes, such as the addition of RetroAchievements support, improvements to the Cached Interpreter, and fixes for various bugs and issues. The article also highlights the progress made in various areas, including audio emulation, controller input handling, and sensor support for Android devices.

Angel Giuffria, a prosthetic-wearer, felt proud of her new bionic hand's Star Wars-like aesthetic but was dismayed by the prominent branding, which made her feel like a walking billboard. Many prosthetics users share her concern, as branding can make them feel like their prosthetic limbs are not fully their own, and some companies are now offering customization options to address this issue.

The post covers various security measures for a Linux server, including adding a non-root user, securing SSH, setting up a firewall, blocking known bad IPs, hardening Nginx reverse-proxy configs, and implementing Fail2Ban. It also provides additional instructions for Cloudflare proxy and emphasizes the importance of using strong and random passwords/passphrases for all accounts.

A US appeals court ruled that the Internet Archive's scanning and lending of copyrighted books without permission is not "fair use", siding with four major book publishers. The court found that the archive's actions harm publishers and would negatively impact the public by taking away the incentive to pay for books and produce new works.

A snapshottable store is a data structure that can efficiently capture its current state and restore a previously captured state, useful for implementing backtracking search processes. The snapshottable store is designed to provide a low overhead over normal references and can be used as a building block to support snapshots for arbitrary data structures.

Code review anxiety is a common experience among software developers, characterized by fear of judgment and criticism, leading to avoidance and procrastination. A cognitive-behavioral workshop intervention has been developed to address this anxiety, showing significant reduction in code review anxiety and increased self-compassion among participants.

The author aims to provide plain English definitions of Python's built-in functions, along with simple examples, to help novice programmers understand and use Python. The guide covers various functions, including abs, aiter, all, any, ascii, bin, bool, and more, with explanations and examples.

Elon Musk's Starlink agreed to block his social media platform X in Brazil after a court order, despite initially refusing to comply. The move comes after a judge froze Starlink's finances and imposed penalties for X's unpaid fines, with Musk criticizing the judge's actions on his platform.

The WorkSlate is a handheld spreadsheet computer designed by Convergent Technologies in 1983, featuring a unique industrial design, a 46-character wide by 16-row high LCD display, and a range of built-in functions, including bar graphs, date and time arithmetic, and an alarm feature. The device has a complex hardware design, with three main PCBs connected by ribbon cables, and uses Oki and ...

Scientists discovered that a chemical called 6PPD-quinone, which leaches from tire wear particles, is responsible for killing coho salmon in Puget Sound's urban streams. This toxic chemical is likely present in creeks near busy roads worldwide, and researchers are now exploring ways to remove it from stormwater or develop "salmon-safe" tires.

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This guide explains how to set up a secure and private connection to a VSCode server using Tailscale, allowing remote access from any device, including an iPad. The setup involves installing code-server on a server, configuring it to start on boot, and securing it with Tailscale, which eliminates the need for public-facing proxies and ensures a fast and private connection.

Edmigo provides personalized guidance and 24/7 support for learning DSA and solving interview questions at 2X speed. Its features include hands-on problem-solving, context-aware assistance, and high-quality learning materials crafted by Google Engineers.

The author built a simple blogging platform called Chapter24 to learn Rails, but it failed to gain paying users and was eventually shut down. Despite the failure, the author reframed their perspective, focusing on the process and lessons learned, which helped them develop skills and credibility that benefited their future projects.

Graffitiremovals is the largest submission-based image archive of removed graffiti around the world.

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Redis uses a single-threaded architecture to achieve high performance, leveraging memory operations and avoiding disk I/O overhead, and its single-threaded design allows for efficient handling of network I/O requests using multiplexing technology. While Redis has introduced multi-threading in some cases, its default single-threaded design remains the most efficient and maintainable approach, ...

The user describes their workflow for building production-ready containers using Astral's uv tool, emphasizing the importance of judicious layering and using virtual environments. They also provide a Dockerfile example for building a web app container and offer tips for packaging Python applications and using uv with unpackaged apps.

A magic trick calculates the sum of the first 10 terms of a Fibonacci-like sequence by multiplying the 7th term by 11, based on divisibility properties. The paper explores generalizations of this trick for other recurrences and discusses its application to Pell-like sequences and Jacobhstal-like sequences.

The user describes a problem with writing tests for business rules with multiple variables, where the number of test cases grows exponentially. They propose an alternative approach, writing one test for the positive case and one test per variable for the negative case, resulting in n+1 test cases instead of 2n.

Germany's economic model, once considered superior, is no longer a suitable role model for the UK or other countries due to its slow growth, structural issues, and failure to adapt to technological change. Germany's struggles are partly due to its reluctance to change its successful but outdated model, making it an analogue economy in a digital world, and the UK should look to other ...

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FreeBSD was created as a protest against the UNIX-industry's unbundling of the C-compiler, and it has since delivered a complete UNIX system with full source code. The project is now considering a change to its distribution format, yanking LLVM out of the src and focusing on ports, to provide a more contemporary and useful answer to "What is FreeBSD?"

The abstract debugger enables developers to interactively explore abstract program states, computed by sound static analyzers, to answer higher-level questions about program behaviors, without the need for concrete input values or concrete program execution. The abstract debugger's operational semantics is formalized, ensuring that any debugging session in the concrete world can be replicated ...

The Apple II, a computer without interrupts, made it difficult to create games with synchronized sound and graphics, leading to the development of sound add-on cards like the Mockingboard, which brought interrupts and improved audio capabilities. The Mockingboard 4c+, a modern clone of the original Mockingboard, allows for seamless integration with the Apple II, enabling high-quality audio ...

The author is abandoning Platform as a Service (PaaS) due to its complexity, unreliability, and high cost, opting instead for Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for simplicity and flexibility. The author believes that VPS eliminates vendor lock-in and allows for easy migration to another provider if needed, making it a more reliable and cost-effective option.

Police are seizing Tesla cars as potential witnesses to crimes, even if the cars weren't involved, and towing them away to secure footage. This practice is expected to become more common as more cars are equipped with cameras, potentially leading to innocent car owners having their vehicles taken away without warrants.

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The reMarkable Paper Pro is a digital paper tablet with a 11.8" color display, adjustable reading light, and a textured surface for a natural writing experience. It offers a 100-day satisfaction guarantee, unlimited cloud storage with a Connect subscription, and a range of accessories, including a keyboard cover and markers, for a seamless note-taking experience.

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office software suite that originated from StarOffice, which was developed by StarDivision and later acquired by Sun Microsystems. The suite has undergone numerous updates and improvements since its inception, with major releases including LibreOffice 3.3, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, and 24.2, featuring new features, improved compatibility, and enhanced user interface.

Bolivia's men's national soccer team is hosting World Cup qualifiers at El Alto's 4,150-meter-high stadium, hoping the higher altitude will give them an advantage over visiting Venezuela. The team's new coach, Oscar Villegas, is selecting a squad with 80% of players used to the thinner air, and Venezuela is preparing with oxygen breathing exercises and acclimatization in hyperbaric chambers.

NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock is a new technology that will enable more precise and stable navigation in space, allowing for autonomous navigation to distant destinations like Mars. The clock uses mercury ions and an electromagnetic trap to achieve a level of precision that is up to 50 times better than current atomic clocks on GPS satellites.

The US Department of Justice is investigating Nvidia for allegedly abusing its dominant position in AI computing, issuing subpoenas to the company and other tech firms to gather evidence. Nvidia's market value dropped by a record $279 billion after the probe was reported, with concerns that the company may be giving preferential treatment to customers who use its technology exclusively.

The author argues that the era of fund returners in the startup industry is coming to an end, as the expected value of building "Internet apps" has decreased due to increased competition and the saturation of the market. The author believes that the next wave of successful startups will be those that take on more technical risk, such as building AI infrastructure, full-stack AI products, or ...

Robot taxis, like those from Zoox, are not fully autonomous as they often require human assistance from remote technicians to navigate unusual situations. Despite this, companies like Zoox and Waymo are still testing and refining their self-driving technology, with plans to make it available to the public in the future.

The Church of England is set to appoint a new Archbishop of Canterbury, with several candidates being considered, including the Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, and the Bishop of Chelmsford, Guli Francis-Dehqani, who would be the first female and minority-ethnic bishop to hold the position. The appointment is significant as it will shape the direction of the Church, which is struggling with ...

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Civil Eats, a nonprofit news organization, has removed its paywall thanks to funding from two generous donors, allowing its reporting to be free to everyone. The organization is now launching a membership drive to keep the site free and accessible beyond the first year, relying on reader support to continue its vital reporting.

The YubiKey 5, a widely used hardware token for two-factor authentication, contains a cryptographic flaw that makes it vulnerable to cloning when an attacker gains temporary physical access. The flaw, known as a side channel, resides in a microcontroller used in other authentication devices, and all YubiKey 5 series models prior to firmware version 5.7 are permanently vulnerable.

Intel's Lunar Lake CPU features a radical design overhaul, including memory on-package, lower core counts, and a new GPU, aimed at improving power efficiency and performance. The new chip offers improved battery life, faster AI processing, and better graphics, but with fewer threads and limited memory capacity options.

NaNoWriMo, a 25-year-old nonprofit, has sparked controversy by publishing a statement defending the use of artificial intelligence in writing, citing classist and ableist undertones in opposing AI. The statement has led to four members of the organization's writers board resigning and one sponsor withdrawing its support, with many writers and authors criticizing the stance as misguided and harmful.