The production of diamonds has evolved from natural formation to laboratory synthesis, with the development of high-pressure and high-temperature methods and chemical vapor deposition techniques, allowing for the creation of high-quality diamonds with precise physical, mechanical, thermal, and optical properties. The use of lab-grown diamonds is becoming increasingly popular, not only for ...

James Earl Jones, a renowned actor, died at 93, leaving behind a legacy of over 60 years in film, TV, and theater, including iconic roles like Darth Vader and King Mufasa. He was a pioneer for Black actors, earning numerous awards and nominations, including an EGOT, and was known for his resonant voice and versatility in a wide range of roles.

QUIC is a new transport-layer protocol over UDP that aims to improve web application performance, but a study finds that it suffers from a data rate reduction of up to 45.2% compared to TCP+TLS+HTTP/2 over fast internet networks. The study identifies high receiver-side processing overhead as the root cause of the performance issues and provides recommendations for mitigation.

The author, a co-founder of GitHub, attributes the platform's success to its focus on the developer experience, taste, and being built by developers for developers, which differentiated it from other hosting services. The author also notes that GitHub's early adoption by the Ruby community and the subsequent explosion of Git usage helped to cement its position as the dominant platform for ...

The article compares the design of Windows NT to Unix systems, highlighting NT's advanced design principles, such as its hybrid kernel, object-oriented architecture, and support for multiprocessing and asynchronous I/O, which were present from its inception. While NT was groundbreaking technology when it launched, its design has not significantly changed over time, and its bloat and ...

Apple has introduced the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, featuring Apple Intelligence, larger display sizes, and new camera features, including a 48MP Fusion camera and 4K120 fps video recording in Dolby Vision. The new Pro models also come with a durable titanium design, improved battery life, and advanced features like Camera Control and Siri integration, making them the most advanced ...

Consumer groups and lawmakers are urging the FTC to crack down on "smart" device manufacturers that suddenly pull support or make products less useful through firmware updates or subscription paywalls. The coalition argues that this practice infringes on consumers' right to own the products they buy and creates an environment where consumers cannot reliably count on devices to last.

The author created a wireless walking wooden coffee table, the Carpentopod, using a software-generated optimized walking mechanism and CNC-ed laminated bamboo components. The table features 12 legs, a curved belly, and can be controlled wirelessly using a joystick and Arduino board, allowing it to walk around and perform tasks.

Project Hammer aims to reduce collusion in Canada's grocery sector by compiling a database of historical prices and making it available for analysis and legal action. The project needs a community of people with various skills to help with data analysis, visualization, and identifying bugs and opportunities in the pricing data.

B-trees are a type of data structure used in database management systems, such as MySQL, to efficiently store and retrieve data, and are particularly well-suited for large datasets that need to be persisted to disk. The choice of primary key can significantly impact the performance of a database, with sequential keys such as BIGINTs being generally faster and more efficient than random keys ...

Apple is releasing a software update for AirPods Pro 2 with new hearing health features, including a hearing protection mode and a "clinical grade" hearing aid mode. The hearing aid mode allows users to take a clinically-validated hearing test and receive a custom hearing profile to improve sound quality.

ESPN's AI-generated recap of Alex Morgan's final professional match failed to mention her, despite being a significant event in the NWSL and US women's soccer. The oversight highlights the limitations of AI-generated content, which may lack human perspective and storytelling ability.

The Apple Hearing Study, a large-scale survey, found that 15% of participants experience tinnitus daily, with prevalence increasing with age and males more likely to experience daily tinnitus. The study also found that participants mainly try noise machines, nature sounds, and meditation to ease tinnitus, and that noise trauma and stress are common causes of tinnitus.

AWS S3 buckets are a popular storage service, but their implementation can introduce security risks and data leaks if not configured correctly. This article covers common security misconfigurations in AWS S3 buckets, including list permissions, access controls, and versioning, and provides tips on how to test and identify these issues.

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The authors describe a pipeline for automatically generating transit maps from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, which involves extracting line graphs, finding optimal line orderings, and rendering the maps as vector tiles. The pipeline uses a combination of graph transformation rules, a greedy optimization algorithm, and simulated annealing to optimize the line orderings and produce high-quality transit maps.

Apple has unveiled Apple Watch Series 10, featuring a refined design, new sleep apnea notifications, faster charging, and a larger display with a wider aspect ratio. The watch also includes new health and fitness insights, intelligent customization, and a carbon neutral option, with availability starting on September 20.

DuckDB has released version 1.1.0, codenamed "Eatoni", which includes several exciting features such as IEEE-754 semantics for division by zero, error handling for scalar subqueries, and support for variables, histograms, and common table expressions. The release also includes performance improvements, such as parallel streaming of query results, improved index insertion and deletion, and ...

AT Protocol is a decentralized backend architecture that allows applications to share state, including user accounts and content, by interconnecting their backends and breaking down isolation. The protocol uses a shared data model, opinionated NoSQL services, and event logs to enable a circular data flow and scale the network to add capacity and create a wider variety of applications.

DeepSilicon is building software and hardware for training and inferencing ternary transformer models, which can achieve 8x compression ratio and reduce arithmetic intensity. The company aims to create custom silicon for ternary LLMs, which can accelerate inference and overcome the limitations of existing hardware.

MNT Reform Next is a highly performant, modular, and upgradeable laptop that combines high performance and high mobility with modularity, customizability, and repairability, making it a flexible device for daily use. The laptop features a sleek and portable design, a mechanical keyboard, and supports a variety of processor modules, including the standard RCORE with an 8-core Rockchip RK3588 ...

The next Apple Watch will detect sleep apnea using peripheral arterial tone, a technique that measures variations in arterial volume to infer apnea events, and cardiovascular signals from the watch's sensors. Widespread sleep apnea screening could help diagnose the 80% of cases that are currently undiagnosed, potentially saving $150 billion in medical spend annually.

The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various device types (e.g. logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and many more). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 3 or later. Design goals and features include:

The European Salary Transparency Law requires companies to publicly disclose salary ranges for all employees to reduce the gender pay gap, with implementation dependent on company size and expected to be fully in place by 2026. The law aims to promote equal pay and transparency, but may also lead to tensions among employees and increased competition for talent among companies.

A US study found that humans excessively trust AI in life-or-death decisions, with two-thirds of subjects influenced by AI advice despite knowing its fallibility. The study's findings have implications for various contexts, including military, medical, and personal decisions, and highlight the need for healthy skepticism towards AI.

Ki 1 Editor is a modal 2 editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.

Cohost, a social media platform, is shutting down due to lack of funding and burnout, with the site becoming read-only on October 1st and all user data being deleted by December 31st. The team is grateful for the experience and appreciates the community's support, but acknowledges that it was not sustainable to continue operating the site without sufficient funding.

The user signed up for the Cyph cryptography app, which claimed to be open-source, but found that it used a proprietary license that restricted contributions. Despite the company creating a new license, the user found it still unclear and restrictive, leading them to decide not to contribute to the project.

The author has noticed a trend of people rewriting and rethinking command line interface (CLI) tools, which they attribute to lessons learned from 50 years of using software, including the importance of simplicity, configurability, and helpful error messages. The author believes that this trend is a good thing, as it allows for the creation of new tools that are more user-friendly and better ...

The user was experiencing issues with negative values being converted to positive when extracting dollar figures from PDF reports, and discovered that the issue was due to the difference between the "HYPHEN-MINUS" and "HYPHEN" characters. The user used the `unicodedata` module to normalize the hyphen characters and leveraged Unicode categories to account for variations and ensure accurate ...

The author is writing a book, "Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python", to help crime analysts get started with Python, addressing common issues with beginner resources. The book covers essential topics, including project management, and is available for pre-release purchase with updates expected in early 2024.

Transfusion is a multi-modal model that combines language modeling and diffusion to train a single transformer over mixed-modality sequences, achieving scaling laws on various benchmarks. By scaling to 7B parameters and 2T tokens, Transfusion models can generate images and text comparable to similar-scale diffusion and language models.

The author argues that business leaders don't care about security, but rather about avoiding lost revenue due to downtime, extortion, and lawsuits. They propose that IT practitioners need to find ways to measure the ROI of security investments to get business leaders to care about security.

Europe's competitiveness is declining due to slowing productivity growth, weakening foreign demand, and rising competitive pressures from Chinese companies, and the EU must accelerate innovation, reduce energy prices, and strengthen its defense industry to regain its competitive edge. The EU's decision-making rules must also be reformed to enable more coordinated and effective policy-making, ...

IOU is a Ruby gem for working with the io_uring API, providing a simple and idiomatic API for Ruby apps. It allows preparing, submitting, and waiting for I/O operations, such as read, write, and timeouts, using raw file descriptors.

Pointer tagging is a technique to encode metadata into a word-sized pointer, allowing for compact representation and efficient runtime information. The choice of tagging scheme depends on the specific use case, compiler, and ISA, with different schemes offering varying levels of optimization and portability.

Oxford PV has started commercializing its record-breaking perovskite tandem solar technology, shipping the first panels to a US-based customer, which can produce up to 20% more energy than standard silicon panels. The technology is expected to transform the energy industry, accelerating progress towards clean energy goals and reducing the levelized cost of electricity.

The world has made significant progress in reducing poverty, improving health, and increasing education over the past 200 years, with the global poverty rate falling from 80% to below 10%. Despite this progress, many problems remain, including environmental issues and income inequality, and it is essential to continue working together to address these challenges.

The article discusses how CEO pay packages, particularly stock buybacks, are incentivizing short-term thinking and harming workers' wages, and proposes solutions such as re-establishing enforcement of stock buyback prohibitions and increasing taxes on excessive CEO pay. The article also highlights the role of economists in perpetuating the myth that CEO pay is justified and argues that a more ...

The Ocean Cleanup declares that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be eliminated in 10 years at a cost of $7.5 billion or in 5 years at a cost of $4 billion. The organization calls upon the world to join in a time for action to eradicate the environmental hazard, citing the catastrophic cost of inaction to marine ecosystems, human health, and the environment.

The user discusses design patterns, specifically the visitor pattern, and how it can be applied in Java, but notes that it may be less relevant with the introduction of pattern matching in Java 21. The user shares their experience of implementing the visitor pattern in a filesystem model and how it simplifies the code, but acknowledges that it may not be as necessary with modern Java features.

Sudo and readline are examples of software maintained by a single person, but with a lower bus factor due to the involvement of other maintainers in similar projects. Other examples include draw.io, which is maintained by two people, highlighting the importance of considering the underlying libraries and dependencies in evaluating software maintainability.

Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, two engineers at Google, have been working together for over 20 years, creating innovative software solutions that have transformed the company's infrastructure and enabled its growth. Their collaboration has led to the development of MapReduce, a system that simplifies data processing on large clusters, and TensorFlow, a program that simplifies the task of ...

The Hacker News search and RAG engine was improved with a typo correction system that is 100 times faster, processing correctly spelled queries in 300μs and misspellings in ~5ms/word. The system uses Burkhard-Keller Trees to efficiently compare words in the search query and dataset dictionary, and a cache layer to store BKTrees for faster lookup.

Tethering, the practice of connecting a phone to a computer to share internet access, has a long history dating back to the 1980s when the first cellular networks were established, and has evolved over the years to become a common feature in modern smartphones. Despite initial limitations and restrictions, tethering has become a useful tool for accessing the internet on-the-go, and is now ...

TSMC's Arizona facility has achieved production yields similar to its established plants in Taiwan, indicating its US project is on track. The facility started engineering wafer production in April using advanced 4-nanometer process technology.

Exponential rate limiting uses an exponentially-weighted moving average to measure a client's rate, allowing for flexible policy enforcement and handling of bursty traffic. The algorithm calculates the client's rate and wait time based on the configured averaging period and limit, with the goal of preventing excessive requests.

The author of Comfy, a 2D game engine, has archived the project due to real-life circumstances and lack of time, but suggests that users fork the repo and adopt it to their needs. The author also recommends alternative engines, such as Macroquad, and provides a comparison of Comfy with other Rust game engines, highlighting its focus on simplicity and pragmatism.

The US needs to prioritize electronic warfare (EW) to counter China's growing capabilities in the field, which could be used to disrupt US military communications and sensors in a potential conflict over Taiwan. To stay ahead, the US should focus on developing nimble and autonomous EW systems, investing in AI and software, and localizing its chip production ecosystem to ensure a robust ...

As an engineering manager, the author had to let go of habits and behaviors that worked as an individual contributor to succeed in the new role. The transition required significant trade-offs, including switching from hands-on work to enabling others, adapting to delayed feedback, and expanding focus from short-term goals to long-term planning.

James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, has died at 93. He was a renowned actor, winning numerous awards, and is best known for his iconic voice work in Star Wars and The Lion King.

Europe's competitiveness is declining due to slowing productivity growth, weakening foreign demand, and rising competitive pressures from Chinese companies, and the EU must accelerate innovation, reduce energy prices, and strengthen its defense industry to regain its competitive edge. The EU's decision-making rules must also be reformed to enable more coordinated and effective policy-making, ...

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The US healthcare system is plagued by false positive drug tests for pregnant women, leading to unnecessary child welfare reports and family separations, with many hospitals failing to confirm test results or provide adequate consent to patients. The problem is widespread, with tens of thousands of infants reported annually to authorities for in utero drug exposure, and many families ...

Iron gall ink is a traditional writing ink made from iron salts and tannic acids that was widely used in Europe for over 1,400 years due to its permanence and water-resistance. The ink was traditionally prepared by combining iron(II) sulfate with tannic acid and gum arabic, and its darkening process is due to the oxidation of iron ions from ferrous to ferric state by atmospheric oxygen.

The author purchased a Commodore 128 and 1571 disk drive from a Facebook Marketplace seller for $200, and after cleaning and testing, everything worked. The author plans to write about the C128's history and features in upcoming posts, and encourages readers to subscribe to their newsletter, Goto 10.

HypergraphZ - A Hypergraph Implementation in Zig. Contribute to yamafaktory/hypergraphz development by creating an account on GitHub.

The author reflects on their experience composing math problems as a student and how it fostered creative and critical thinking. They then create a problem from scratch, iteratively refining it to make it more concise, symmetrical, and beautiful, ultimately arriving at a problem that involves prime numbers and logarithms.

I am a Python developer. My specialisms are serverless Python APIs on AWS, CI/CD and time-series data.

Britain's wind power has become its single largest source of electricity generation, producing 83 TWh of electricity in the past year, surpassing gas-fired power stations. The shift is due to increased wind output and decreased reliance on gas, with wind farms producing 32% of the country's demand.

Bathroom scales measure body mass by detecting the depression of a platform due to gravity, but the process is delayed due to the platform's stiffness and drag. The scales oscillate due to underdamping, which allows for a measurement, but active damping could be used to suppress oscillations for a more precise reading.

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JPEG XL is a visually lossless image format that offers best-of-breed lossless compression, beating WebP and AVIF, with reversible compression and support for wide-gamut and HDR images. It provides a future-proof format with royalty-free and open-source implementation, ideal for creative workflows, with features like layer support, up to 4099 channels, and CMYK compatibility.

A brewmaster's expertise combines chemistry, biology, and engineering with knowledge of aromatic plants, cultural traditions, and sensory perception to craft innovative beers. Hops, a vital component of beer, are cultivated and regulated to provide a range of flavors and aromas, from floral and citrusy to pungent and earthy, influencing the brewing process.

Public support for a TikTok ban in the US has declined, with 32% of Americans now supporting a ban, down from 50% in March 2023. The majority of Americans, 54%, believe a TikTok ban is unlikely to happen, with views on the issue divided by political party and user status.

Talaria is a model visualization and optimization system designed to help practitioners create efficient ML models on devices with limited resources. It has been internally deployed for two years, with 800+ practitioners submitting 3,600+ models, and has been evaluated through log analysis, usability surveys, and qualitative interviews.

Mixpanel's web application uses relational databases to store essential data, but the N+1 query problem can slow down the application and negatively impact the user experience. By using Django's logging and querycount libraries, and implementing custom log formatters, Mixpanel's team was able to identify and fix N+1 query issues, resulting in significant performance improvements.

SeaTerra, a German company, is leading a mission to clear over 1.5 million tonnes of volatile munitions from the Baltic and North Sea basins, a process that has been delayed for decades due to lack of funding and technology. The company's Norppa 300 robot is being tested to remove and destroy the munitions, which are corroding and releasing carcinogens into the sea, posing a risk to marine ...

The Mamba architecture is improved with ReMamba, which enhances its ability to comprehend long contexts through selective compression and adaptation techniques. ReMamba achieves competitive performance with transformer models while incurring minimal additional inference costs.

You have a Work Desktop and Laptop, both company-issued, and struggle to sync browser tabs and workspaces across both devices, especially since Edge doesn't work well on Linux. You're looking for a solution that works on both macOS and Linux, without using Firefox or Edge.

Boeing has reached a tentative deal with the Machinists union, offering a 25% pay raise and improved working conditions over four years, in an effort to avoid a strike. The deal also guarantees the production of Boeing's next new airplane in the Puget Sound region, a significant commitment that could bring job security for generations to come.

The author explores using Rust for Data Engineering tasks, starting with simple S3 operations and file processing, and compares it to Python. While Rust's strict compiler rules and reliability are appealing, the author concludes that Rust may not be suitable for small, mundane tasks in Data Engineering.

WarpStream is joining Confluent to bring data streaming to customer cloud accounts with WarpStream BYOC, and will continue to serve existing customers and onboard new ones. The acquisition will bring resources and backing from the leader in streaming, allowing WarpStream to expand its engineering team, support, and product features.

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OMF is a lightweight API contract that defines a standard schema for exchanging user and assistant conversations, allowing developers to easily experiment with different LLMs and tools. It eliminates boilerplate integration code, simplifies message sending, and provides built-in converters for interoperability across multiple popular LLMs.

The Bureau of Land Management uses freeze marking, a painless and permanent method, to identify captured wild horses and burros with a unique mark on the left side of the neck. The mark contains the registering organization, year of birth, and registration number, and can be seen as the hair grows back white at the marked site.

Research found that eating bananas, oats, and yoghurt increases the risk of type 1 diabetes in children, while consuming strawberries, blueberries, and other berries lowers the risk. The study suggests that pesticides in some fruits may contribute to the increased risk, while berries' high polyphenol content may have a protective effect.

The PermaTab Browser is a revolutionary web browser that prevents users from closing tabs, ensuring they never lose valuable information. It uses behavioral fingerprinting and AI to restore tabs on new devices and offers an infinitely extensible monitor stand, with advertising integrated into the browsing experience.

A1 is a compact and efficient binary messaging protocol designed for NFC applications, offering a dynamic negotiation process between devices and minimizing metadata and round trips to improve performance. The protocol uses CBOR to ensure efficient message formatting and is suitable for high-performance applications like contactless payments, access control, and IoT systems, with a reference ...

Some Democratic politicians in the US propose taxing unrealized gains, but this idea is overly complex and may not be effective or popular with voters. Instead, they should focus on tried-and-true tax hikes, such as raising income taxes on the rich, which have been shown to be effective in the past.

The authors released an Apache-licensed implementation of FSST, a fast random-access string compression algorithm, and integrated it into their Vortex toolkit. FSST uses a symbol table to compress strings, allowing for efficient random access and compression factors of 2-3x on many real-world datasets.

This is a remake of the OG CSS Triggers, which was created by Paul Lewis and Surma. This version is created by Andrico Karoulla. I need your help! The browser data is out of date. If you have access to the latest browser data, then please create a GitHub issue.

Grocery prices have increased by 25.6% from February 2020 to July 2022, with many families struggling to afford basic necessities. While some economists argue that corporate greed is a factor, others point to increased costs, supply chain disruptions, and consumer spending habits as contributing to the price hikes.

The user suggests leveraging existing content from online communities and social networks by capturing it in a newsletter or blog post, allowing for a permanent URL and the ability to share insights with a targeted audience. The process involves gathering sources, reviewing and editing content, and scheduling regular newsletters to share insights and expertise with subscribers.

The user found a confession on the @fesshole account that sparked an investigation, using a code to search for academic papers with swearwords in their titles, resulting in 80,000 matches. The user shared the data and asked the public to help identify intentional or accidental uses of swearwords in academic paper titles, finding some humorous examples.

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TSMC's Arizona facility has achieved production yields similar to its established plants in Taiwan, indicating its US project is on track. The facility started engineering wafer production in April using advanced 4-nanometer process technology.

The author discusses the benefits of touch typing for programmers, including increased speed, accuracy, and mental focus, and shares their personal experience of learning touch typing after being motivated by a Bar Raiser's suggestion. They emphasize that touch typing is not just about typing faster, but also about being able to type effortlessly while focusing on the task at hand, making it ...

Fewer dependencies make developers happy, especially for apps and libraries. Ideal dependencies are 0, but staying with built-in libraries is a good compromise.

Quentin Corradi will present his work on improving hardware design tool reliability at FUZZING'24, focusing on Verilog language support. He uses grammar-based fuzzing to test tool acceptance and rejection of valid and invalid Verilog designs, aiming to identify inconsistencies and bugs.

Jerusalem Demsas, a staff writer for The Atlantic, argues that addressing housing unaffordability requires addressing the severe shortage of homes. Her book explores how democratic structures contribute to the shortage, highlighting the tension between community decisions and the country's ability to build.

A robot arm at Thompson Aero Seating in Northern Ireland is testing the longevity and safety of first-class and business-class seats by opening and closing an airplane meal table over 28,000 times. Despite supply chain challenges and labor shortages, the company is working to increase production and meet growing demand for aircraft seats, with a five-year plan to multiply its annual output.

The user is debating whether to include their ML-driven comic collection manager app on their resume, considering both the positive signal of building and shipping a product and the potential negative implication of being seen as not committed to a new job. They suggest adding the project to a separate "Projects" section on the resume, highlighting initiative and curiosity, and being upfront ...