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The European Court of Justice ruled against Apple in its 10-year court battle over tax affairs in Ireland, upholding the European Commission's 2016 order to recover 13 billion euros in back taxes. The ruling confirms the Commission's original decision that Apple received "illegal" tax benefits from Ireland over two decades.

Cloudflare's team optimized the "clear_internal_headers" function in their Rust-based proxy service, Pingora, to reduce CPU utilization and improve performance. They achieved a 2.39x speed improvement and reduced CPU utilization from 1.71% to 0.43% by using a custom trie data structure, trie-hard, which outperformed existing implementations.

The New York Times Tech Guild, representing over 600 staffers, has authorized a strike due to stalled contract negotiations with management. The guild, formed in 2022, is seeking better wages, remote work rights, and unique protections, and its strike could set a precedent for other tech unions.

German police raided the home and office of an organization on August 16th, 2024, citing concerns about de-anonymizing Tor users. This is the second raid, following a similar incident in 2017, with authorities claiming it will help identify individual Tor users.

The article discusses OpenType features in fonts, including axes, stylistic alternates, swashes, and numerals, and how to use them in web development. It also covers font-variation-settings, font-variant-alternates, and other properties to manipulate font features and improve typography in web applications.

Coding is a journey of problem-solving, and some people do it for the fun of it, not for financial gain. There are hackers who create software for personal enjoyment, without worrying about its practical applications or monetary value.

Your Next Store (YNS) supports versions 18, 20, and 22, and requires a Stripe account to use, with Test Mode for local development and Production Mode for real customers. YNS integrates with Stripe, requires environmental variables, and supports simple product variants, with plans for future features like editing products and tax support.

Chai-1 is a multi-modal foundation model for molecular structure prediction that achieves state-of-the-art performance across various tasks, including protein, small molecule, DNA, RNA, and covalent modification prediction. The model is available for free via a web interface and as a software library for non-commercial use, with capabilities including single-sequence mode and promptable ...

The author discusses the importance of comments in code, arguing that they should explain the "why" behind the code rather than just the "what", and that negative comments can be particularly useful in highlighting trade-offs and potential future issues. The author also explores the limitations of self-documenting code, suggesting that certain types of information, such as analogies and ...

The US Department of Justice is suing Google for its dominance in the ad tech industry, alleging that the company has a "trifecta of monopolies" and intentionally manipulated ad auctions to its own benefit. The DOJ is seeking remedies such as divestment of Google's Ad Manager suite and potentially even splitting the company into separate search and advertising entities.

Flipper Zero's 1.0 firmware update brings quality-of-life improvements and expanded utility, including faster data transfer, NFC support, and infrared capabilities. The update also adds new features like app support from microSD cards, low-power mode, and JavaScript app development, with hundreds of third-party apps available in the Flipper Zero app catalog.

The user is attempting to detect aircraft in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from Umbra Space, using the MSFA framework and DeonDet model. They have processed the imagery, broken it into smaller tiles, and run the model on each tile, but the results show that the model is missing many aircraft, particularly in areas where they are parked or taxiing.

Git Bash provides commands to view and navigate the current path, list mounts, and display Windows-type paths. It also allows launching files and directories in the system's default app, and provides tools for working with scripts, Unicode characters, and case sensitivity.

Generative tools have rapidly advanced in text-to-image and text-to-video generation, driven by the concept of diffusion. This tutorial aims to explain the essential ideas behind diffusion models, targeting students and researchers interested in applying these models to solve various problems.

The user created a lottery simulator, PerThirtySix, to explore probabilities and play with data, allowing users to set up rules for existing or custom lotteries and simulate ticket purchases. The simulator includes features such as visualizing returns and making simplifying assumptions, and users can support the project by buying the author a coffee.

The user proposes a time machine-like feature called Antithesis, which simulates a deterministic universe to help debug and reproduce bugs in software systems. With Antithesis, users can rewind time, attach debuggers, and capture data to troubleshoot issues, and even travel to the future to compress time and debug networked systems.

Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services found that one-fifth of archived hard disk drives from the 1990s are unreadable, warning the music industry that even well-maintained drives may become unplayable over time. The company is urging the industry to take action to preserve and digitize their assets, as many drives may be lost forever without proactive preservation efforts.

Harrison.rad.1, a specialized AI model, excels in radiology exams and benchmarks, outperforming other foundational models and human radiologists. The model's unmatched performance and proprietary access to extensive medical imaging data make it a significant technological leap towards improving clinical excellence and quality in radiology.

Margrethe Vestager expects to lose Apple's tax state aid challenge, while economist Fiona Scott Morton warns thoughtless tweets can harm competition cases. The scandal led to resignations, including Panagiotis Kontoleon, former head of Greece's EYP intelligence service.

Visual DB is a productivity application that allows users to build forms and sheets using a drag-and-drop interface and AI assistance, without requiring programming knowledge. It enables users to create and modify databases, build queries, and grant permissions to users, making it a one-stop shop for all database needs.

The user's QA lead reported an issue with the Android client on Sandbox2, showing an update message despite a recent deployment, and the user investigated to find the cause was missing quotes around a git hash in the YAML configuration. The user fixed the issue by wrapping the git hash in quotes and updated the TeamCity code to prevent similar bugs in the future.

The Apple M4 chip's Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) allows programmers to write low-level code that directly targets the matrix hardware, bringing potential performance improvements to scientific and machine learning algorithms. The SME unit can sustain 2000GFLOPS of FP32 multiply-accumulate, but achieving peak performance requires careful use of the ZA storage and execution of sequences of ...

The Notebooks integration in the Portal experience was initially slow, taking up to 30 seconds to load, but the team optimized the process by decoupling the notebook server, mocking responses, and pre-rendering the JupyterLab UI, resulting in a 87% improvement in load times. The final solution involved adding a CDN, optimizing container creation, and pre-rendering the iframe, reducing the ...

Briefer, a VC-backed company, is launching a free and open-source offering, and the company's strategy is to make money by selling a non-open-source version of the software, while also maintaining a generous AGPL-licensed version with fewer features. The company chose the AGPL license to ensure the open-source software remains open-source forever, and to commoditize competitors' core ...

Ford Motor Company has filed a patent application for technology that can tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations and analyzing a car's location and data. The system would predict routes, speeds, and destinations to customize ads to drivers, potentially providing more relevant advertisements based on their trip types and destinations.

You developed a tool, Feed Finder, to find RSS feeds on websites, aiming to find feeds even if they're not linked. The tool checks meta tags, common suffixes, and 3rd party feeds, with potential future additions like search engines and domain crawling.

Rust is being considered for use in the illumos operating system, but it requires investment to make it smooth, including API design, social aspects, and impacts on the software lifecycle. The author welcomes Rust developers to the illumos community, citing userland tools as easy to make in Rust and opportunities for driver development and integration with existing kernels.

Gartner's AI chief, Erick Brethenoux, believes that AI techniques requiring specialist hardware are "doomed" as vanilla machines can eventually do the job. He recommends using composite AI, which combines generative AI with established techniques, and adopting guardrails to ensure reliable results.

In this excerpt from Between Two Sounds, we see the moment when the Estonian composer begins to run afoul of the Soviet regime. From Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language, this week’s featured book.

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) have revolutionized human-AI interactions, but they can hallucinate responses, leading to the dissemination of false information, especially on obscure or controversial topics. The accuracy of LLM-based GPTs depends on the quantity and quality of their training data, and they perform well on popular and ...

The Voynich Manuscript has been imaged using multispectral imaging, revealing previously unknown text and details, including a Roman alphabet written in the margin of the first page, which has been identified as likely written by Marci, a doctor who owned the manuscript in the 17th century. The images also show hidden text, offsets, and show-through, providing new evidence about the ...

The user discusses how to avoid getting stuck in side projects by breaking them down into smaller, manageable chunks and sharing progress through content-driven development. This approach helps them stay motivated, focused, and aware of what's important, allowing them to stop projects when they've achieved their goals and move on to new ones.

Taki Udon will release two batches of DE-10 Nano clone boards, with 1000 units each, priced from $100 to $160, excluding power supply. The user is cautiously optimistic about the product, citing concerns about manufacturing experience and recommending a deep-dive comparison with the original DE-10 and QMTech versions.

K1 Investment Management acquired 100% of MariaDB's issued ordinary shares, positioning the company to expand its presence in the enterprise market and deliver innovative, scalable solutions globally. MariaDB's new CEO, Rohit de Souza, will lead the company's next phase of growth, with a focus on accelerating product innovation and meeting the growing demands of the market.

The author built a home network using Ubiquiti devices, including a Dream Machine, Pro Max 24 PoE switch, and U7 APs, to provide a reliable and high-speed network for their home. The author shares their experience, including the challenges they faced, such as deploying APs in a concrete house, and provides details on their setup, including VLANs, firewall rules, and cable management.

The European Court of Justice ruled that Google violated antitrust laws and must pay €2.4 billion in back taxes, while also upholding a €13 billion fine against Apple for receiving an unlawful tax deal from Ireland. Both cases aim to close tax loopholes exploited by US tech giants, with Google and Apple arguing against the fines.

The debate among developers is whether to write code for today's problem or build a general-purpose solution for future needs, and finding a middle ground is key to avoiding the pitfalls of overgeneralization and unnecessary complexity. By creating flexible, general-purpose code that solves today's problems without over-engineering, developers can ensure their code is ready for future changes ...

Tesla has changed its website to only offer "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" instead of "Full Self-Driving Capability", implying that future customers may not receive fully autonomous driving without supervision. The change also removes text mentioning continuous improvement and regulatory approval, leading to speculation about Tesla's future plans for Full Self-Driving.

DBOS Transact provides durable execution, allowing programs to resume from the last completed step in case of failure or interruption. It achieves this by storing execution state in a Postgres database, making it fast and resilient, with examples including a demo app, AI-Powered Slackbot, Widget Store, and Earthquake Tracker.

Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page This is the 5th time Mozilla opted me into something like this w/o asking - existing about:config changes didn't apply; they add new ones (15 results for 'sponsor') Slowly driving their only successful product to zero

PlayStation 5 Pro is the latest console hardware, offering improved graphics, smoother frame rates, and advanced features like ray tracing and AI-driven upscaling. It will be available on November 7, 2024, at a price of $699.99 USD, with preorders starting on September 26, 2024.

Sail unifies stream, batch, and AI workloads, offering a Spark SQL and DataFrame API replacement. It's a Python package on PyPI, installable via pip, with a development guide for contributors.

PIXHELL is a covert channel attack that leaks sensitive information via noise generated by screen pixels, no audio hardware required. The attack exploits sound frequencies from coils and capacitors to encode and transmit data, potentially exfiltrating information from air-gapped computers.

Large Language Models benefit from Chain-of-Thought prompting, but its emphasis on intermediate steps can introduce errors. To address this, we propose Natural Program, a deductive reasoning format that enables models to generate precise steps and verify reasoning in a step-by-step manner, improving answer correctness on complex tasks.

The user's Yelp API experienced slow response times and 403 errors, which were resolved by adding an Accept-Language header. The user found that Yelp does not respect the Accept-Language header, but Google does, and the header is a good practice to include in web scraping and designing multiple languages web applications.

PeerDB maps PostgreSQL tables to ClickHouse using ReplacingMergeTree, handling deduplication and data ingestion. ClickHouse requires explicit nullable types and ordering keys for query performance, with PRIMARY KEY and ORDER BY columns used for deduplication and indexing.

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are tiny creatures that can survive extreme temperatures, radiation, and desiccation, and are found everywhere on Earth. The first recorded observations of tardigrades were made by German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who discovered their remarkable physical resilience and charisma.

Sapling is a scalable, user-friendly source control system developed by Meta, designed to make reviewing stacks of commits easy and intuitive. The system is now open-sourced, allowing developers to try its features and workflows, including the smartlog, undo and redo commands, and stacked commit review.

SpaceX has announced the Polaris Program, a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities, with the goal of flying the first crewed mission to the Moon on the Starship spacecraft. The company has also been working to reduce the brightness of its Starlink satellites, which have been a concern for astronomers, and has developed a sun visor solution to block sunlight ...

The European Court of Justice confirms the European Commission's 2016 decision that Ireland granted Apple unlawful tax aid worth €13 billion. Ireland is required to recover the aid, which was unlawful and incompatible with the internal market.

The author argues that the 14 KB limit for critical resources on a web page is not a hard and fast rule, as it is based on theoretical assumptions about TCP packet sizes and does not account for real-world complexities such as HTTP/2 and HTTPS connections. The author provides an example of a real-world website, Amazon, to demonstrate that the actual number of TCP packets and data transferred ...

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This template repository provides a quick start for setting up ArgoCD and Glasskube in a GitOps environment, allowing for efficient package management and deployment of custom applications. The repository includes a demo application, a bookmark manager called shiori, and installs the kube-prometheus-stack clusterpackage for monitoring, demonstrating the capabilities of the GitOps stack.

The user's open-source project has gained traction and they're considering monetization options, including open core, sponsorship links, and consulting work. They seek advice on how to implement these strategies and handle requests for custom changes from a large company.

Researchers found that color plays a unique role in emotional responses to food, with colorblind individuals being less food neophobic. The study suggests that color can influence food recognition and preferences, and may be used to develop targeted interventions for individuals with extreme food neophobia.

Osquery is a SQL-powered framework that exposes an operating system as a relational database, allowing users to write SQL queries to explore operating system data. It is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, and offers a variety of tables and plugins for monitoring and analytics.

A coalition of 42 state and territory attorneys general is urging Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms to address the "mental health crisis" affecting young people. The proposed labels would alert users to the "inherent risks" social platforms pose to children, citing research linking social media use to anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation.

Fbs is a tool that combines the best tools for each step, including PyInstaller, NSIS, and others, to simplify packaging and deployment of open-source projects. It is designed for efficiency and productivity, allowing developers to focus on their code rather than tedious development tasks.

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed new vehicle rules aimed at reducing pedestrian deaths by requiring automakers to design vehicles with pedestrian safety in mind. The rules, which could save up to 67 lives per year, would update testing procedures to simulate head-to-hood impact and require vehicles to be tested with crash test dummies representing ...

The author implemented a Bloom filter to remove duplicate lines from a large text file, but found that it was slow due to random memory access, and instead used a hash table with linear probing to achieve better performance. The author learned that reducing random memory loads is often more important than optimizing memory usage, and that cache-friendly data structures can greatly improve performance.

Lab-grown diamonds have been produced for decades, with machines available for purchase online, including on Alibaba, starting at $200,000. However, operating these machines requires significant expertise, resources, and safety measures, making it a complex and costly process.

Koji Kashin is a legendary Japanese figure known for his magical feats, including turning bamboo leaves into fish and conjuring spirits, but his existence is likely mythical. The stories about Koji, which often feature him outsmarting powerful historical figures, serve as a satirical commentary on the powerful and their flaws, with the magician's antics ending in humiliation, scams, or ...

This online ruler is a convenient tool for measuring lengths, with a calibration process to ensure accuracy. It can be used to measure in both metric and imperial units, with features such as a zoom function and a comparison tool.

Japan will provide subsidies for 12 battery development projects, led by 4 automakers and Panasonic, to build its own supply chain. The projects aim to produce various battery types, including prismatic, solid-state, and lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, with a combined annual capacity of up to 34 GWh.

3. Drag the selection corners to ensure the face is always in frame.

The key to discouraging wiki usage is to provide players with the information they need to progress through the game without having to look it up online, such as through in-game tutorials, tooltips, and clear explanations of mechanics and systems. Additionally, making the game more accessible and intuitive, providing multiple ways to solve problems, and encouraging exploration and discovery ...

The author argues that businesses choose Open Source licenses not for community contributions or goodwill, but to increase market potential and solve business problems, and that the choice of license is part of the product's packaging, not a standalone business model. The author proposes a new approach, Fair Source, which balances the needs of users, businesses, and maintainers by encoding ...

Bank of America is increasing its hourly workers' pay to at least $24 per hour starting in October, affecting thousands of employees, including tellers and customer-facing staff. The move is part of the bank's efforts to attract and retain workers in a competitive job market, despite vast income disparities between hourly workers and high-paid investment bankers and executives.

Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, a mid-generation upgrade with higher frame rates and resolution, available November 7 for $699.99, featuring a larger GPU and improved ray-tracing, with some games marketed as "PS5 Pro Enhanced" or "PS5 Pro Game Boost".

Eduard Habsburg, a 57-year-old author and ambassador, promotes his book "The Habsburg Way" which offers seven rules for living, including getting married and having children, being Catholic, and being brave. His approach is criticized for being simplistic and ignoring structural issues, and is seen as promoting a right-wing, conservative agenda.

A farmer in County Westmeath, Ireland, has come forward as the anonymous sender of two 4,000-year-old axe heads to the National Museum of Ireland, which were discovered using a metal detector on his land. The farmer, Thomas Dunne, will not face charges for using the metal detector without permission, and the museum is now working to learn more about the axe heads and the people who lived in ...

NetBSD is a suitable choice for embedded devices due to its stability and flexibility, allowing for a read-only root file system configuration to ensure better reliability. The user provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up a read-only root file system on NetBSD by using memory file systems for /tmp and /var directories.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Apple benefited from massive tax breaks in Ireland, contravening EU state aid rules, and ordered the company to pay €13 billion in back taxes. The ruling is a win for tax justice and a level playing field in the Single Market, and Apple will have to forgo €13 billion in escrow pending the outcome of the case.

Taildrop is a feature in Tailscale that allows secure, peer-to-peer file transfers between personal devices on a Tailscale network, without third-party servers. It is currently in public alpha and can be enabled on a network by turning on the Send Files feature in the admin console.

A deep learning-based framework is proposed for chart information extraction, using hierarchical vision transformers for chart-type and text-role classification, YOLOv7 for text detection, and Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks for text enhancement. The framework achieves excellent performance on a benchmark dataset, with F1-scores of 0.97 for chart-type classification, 0.91 for ...

The article highlights the importance of documenting successful policies and practices to prevent the repetition of past mistakes and ensure progress, citing examples such as handwashing in hospitals, flexible zoning laws, and affordable education. The author emphasizes the need for robust documentation systems and accessible platforms to facilitate discovery and learning from past successes ...

Mark Zuckerberg's goal of having one billion people try virtual reality (VR) by 2027 seems far-fetched, as VR headset sales have only reached 34 million. The VR gaming industry has been hindered by a focus on hardcore gaming experiences, which prioritize graphical realism and fast-paced violence, rather than exploring other types of experiences that could appeal to a broader audience.

B-trees and B+trees are crucial in databases, used for efficient data lookups and indexing in DBMSs like MySQL, Postgres, and MongoDB. A specific B+tree variant is used in MySQL InnoDB indexes, which is a linked list with the number of keys equal to the number of children.

The author, a venture capitalist, has decided to quit investing after 15 years, citing a lack of excitement and a sense of having "done" the tech industry, as well as personal reasons such as getting older and feeling the need to contribute to something larger than himself. He reflects on his investment strategy, which was based on the idea of embracing uncertainty and taking calculated ...

The author proposes six ideas to help Poland boost its economy and become a high-income country, including increasing drone and missile manufacturing, using bank finance to support industrialization, and creating a trendy urban village in Warsaw. The author also suggests that Poland should partner with East Asian countries, such as South Korea and Japan, to learn from their economic ...

The strtod function in C standard library seems innocent but is actually complex to implement correctly, requiring arbitrary-precision arithmetic and handling of various edge cases. David M. Gay's implementation is widely used and provides strong guarantees about finding the best possible answer in all cases, but it can be computationally intense and requires significant memory allocation.

The Deep Purple telescope, developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is now operational in space after being deployed on the Transporter-11 launch. The telescope will observe the Earth, sky, and celestial bodies in ultraviolet and short-wave infrared, with its first images collected and downlinked over the weekend.

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PR-Agent is a Chrome extension that integrates AI-powered chat and code review tools into GitHub, providing automated code reviews, code improvement suggestions, and secure chat sessions. It offers a free two-week trial for private repositories and is fully supported for open-source repositories, with features like auto-generated PR descriptions and documentation suggestions.

Having these visas typically enables you to travel to other countries as well (ie unlock other countries for you)

Quantum computers have the potential to break RSA encryption and compromise privacy and security, but achieving fault-tolerant operation is crucial for practical applications. To factorize the number 21, a seemingly simple task, requires 1015 physical qubits, 400 fault-tolerant surface-level gates, and 14 magic-state initializations with 99.7% fidelity, highlighting the challenges and ...

Edge Image Builder (EIB) is an open-source project that helps customize SL Micro base images for edge deployments, including configurations, workload artifacts, and node registration. EIB provides a declarative, YAML-based definition format, allowing for reproducible images with full accountability of their contents, and fits into existing GitOps and CI/CD pipelines.

Radicle 1.0 is now available after five months of feedback and 17 release candidates, marking the culmination of years of experimentation and hard work. The new version represents a sovereign code forge, allowing for collaborative, local-first, peer-to-peer development with a focus on stability and community involvement.

Paul Erdős, a Hungarian mathematician, was under FBI surveillance due to his unusual behavior and connections, but was ultimately deemed harmless and not a threat to national security. Despite being investigated multiple times, Erdős was never found to have any nefarious intentions, and his FBI surveillance was likely a way for J. Edgar Hoover to associate himself with the renowned mathematician.

Ray Bradbury, a renowned science fiction writer, collaborated with director John Huston to adapt Herman Melville's classic novel Moby-Dick into a film, a project that was marked by creative tension and personal struggles. Despite the challenges, Bradbury persevered and ultimately completed the screenplay, which was released in 1956 starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab.

The user discusses a proposed JavaScript operator (?=) that would simplify try-catch blocks and provides an implementation of a tryCatch function that works with both async and non-async functions. The function returns an array with an error or the result of the assignment, depending on whether an error is thrown, and can be used to simplify code that handles errors and assignments.

CoderKit is a free Xcode extension that integrates GitHub Copilot and Codeium, providing AI-enabled code autocompletion within Xcode. With CoderKit, users can accept or reject suggestions with the tab or ESC keys, streamlining the coding process.

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The user accidentally increased their AWS bill by $1000 due to a Docker Entrypoint change causing container failures and excessive NAT Gateway data processing. They learned to validate changes and wrote a Terraform module to remove test infrastructure in AWS accounts to save money.