The author has been campaigning for 7 years to secure public access to 3D scans of French national museums' collections, including the Rodin Museum, and has won a historic court decision. However, the court's errors and the museum's defiance pose a threat to public access to millions of documents containing petabytes of data from government-funded 3D surveys.

The FTC is investigating John Deere over allegations that the company makes its farm equipment hard to repair. The investigation has been ongoing since 2021 and involves data from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers.

Apple's generated passwords are designed with two-syllable patterns to be easier to type on foreign keyboards and remember briefly. This format was explained in a 2018 talk, where it was shown to have 71 bits of entropy, making it stronger than the previous format.

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The author is creating static websites to organize and preserve their digital data, using HTML files to display metadata and tags for easy searching. This approach allows for flexibility, simplicity, and low maintenance, making it ideal for long-term digital preservation.

John Graham-Cumming helped break the encryption of Tim Jenkin's 1980s cryptosystem used in Operation Vula to secretly communicate with ANC leaders. The system used one-time pads and was successfully used to help bring down apartheid in South Africa.

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The user created a custom SIMD package for Go to improve performance, using Plan9 assembly language to target x86 hardware. The package uses a private function pointer and architecture-specific init functions to support multiple architectures.

Technical writing should focus on task support, providing users with information to make decisions rather than just operating machines. Effective documentation includes context, consequences, and resources to aid decision-making.

Spliit, a free open-source project, received 152k visits in the last year, with 33% bounce rate and 29k users sharing links, indicating active usage. The project costs $115/month, mostly for database hosting, and relies on donations to cover costs, with generous contributions from the community.

Subvert is a collectively owned platform aiming to replace Bandcamp, offering a new model for the music industry. Founding members can join by getting a free zine and contributing to the platform's development.

NET 9.0 brings significant improvements to LINQ performance, with some scenarios showing remarkable gains due to optimizations such as using ReadOnlySpan for faster iteration and recognizing common LINQ call chains to create special iterators. These improvements can be taken advantage of by simply migrating and recompiling existing code, and additional optimizations include SIMD utilization ...

The SOFA club encourages starting many projects with no goal of finishing them, focusing on learning and experience. It's okay to stop projects when they're no longer interesting or when you've learned enough, and to start new ones.

The game Factorio involves building a factory to automate processes and research to create new items, with complex dependencies between resources and products. A graph can be used to visualize these dependencies and optimize production.

Rust developers are working on enabling custom smart pointers to function like built-in smart pointers, which would allow the Linux kernel to use them. This involves adding a new macro that makes it easy to implement the necessary traits for custom smart pointers, but requires programmers to use the "unsafe" keyword to promise that their implementation is safe.

bitnet.cpp is an inference framework for 1-bit LLMs, achieving speedups and energy reductions on CPUs. It supports 1-bit models on Hugging Face and can run a 100B model on a single CPU at human-reading speeds.

The author is a computer science theoretician who considers themselves part of the computer science camp rather than mathematics. They argue that theoretical computer science should focus on explaining and predicting real-life computing rather than solely being driven by internal mathematical esthetics.

A high-quality image dataset of Prague is released under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license for non-commercial use. The dataset offers 1.26 million high-resolution images of the city, enabling advancements in computer vision research and photogrammetry.

This is a tutorial on Jujutsu, a version control system, written by Steve, who learned about it while trying to understand stacked diffs. Steve is publishing this tutorial in case it helps someone else understand Jujutsu.

Express v5 is released after 10 years of work, focusing on stability and security. The update drops old Node.js support, simplifies maintenance, and includes several breaking changes.

We rely on narratives to make sense of the world but they can be restrictive and limit our potential. By understanding the perspectives that shape our narratives, we can break free from their constraints and open ourselves up to new possibilities.

Early life adversity affects reward processing in the brain, leading to decreased activation in reward-related areas during anticipation and increased activation during reward delivery. This altered reward processing is associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and may be mediated by a dysfunctional reward pathway.

Senators John Kennedy and Jeff Merkley introduced the Traveler Privacy Protection Act to stop TSA's facial recognition screenings at airports. The bill would repeal TSA's authorization to use facial recognition and require explicit congressional approval for future use.

Donna Kalil is a 62-year-old professional python hunter in the Florida Everglades, removing invasive Burmese pythons that threaten native wildlife. She has caught 876 pythons and is one of the most successful hunters in the program.

DHL started by offering free plane tickets to people carrying high value documents in their luggage. This innovative solution helped businesses avoid the unreliable postal monopoly and clear goods through ports more quickly.

A Kentucky hospital canceled an organ retrieval after a donor appeared to be alive, thrashing and crying. The incident has led to allegations of pressure to collect organs from living patients and raised concerns about the organ donation system's safety and trustworthiness.

An expert committee in Canada's Ontario province found cases where patients were euthanized for social reasons such as isolation and homelessness. The committee raised concerns over approvals for vulnerable people in the country's assisted dying system.

The user quit a contracting job with £40k debt, feeling soul-destroyed by pointless programming work. They now pursue a food delivery business and ancestral health writing, seeking a more fulfilling life.

Researchers discovered a species of bioluminescent phytoplankton that balloons to six times its size to travel up to 200 meters towards the ocean's surface. This unique strategy allows the plankton to control its density and escape gravity, showcasing a clever way to slingshot in the ocean during vertical migration.

The user discusses a game engine setup using fixed timestep update loops and game state interpolation, but finds the interpolation method adds unnecessary latency and is hard to implement. They propose an alternative "render tick" method that predicts the game state without explicit interpolation, which works well for fast-paced games with high TPS.

You may be eligible for a payment if you had a Patreon account and Facebook account between April 1, 2016 and September 23, 2024. You have four options: submit a claim, do nothing, opt out, or object to the settlement by January 1, 2025.

fas is a C++ library for arbitrary floating point arithmetic with customizable mantissa, exponent, and base types. It supports various operations and can represent fractions exactly by setting a specific base.

User created a crossword puzzle project, 'Joystick Jargon', combining gaming vocabulary with traditional elements. The project employed ML techniques, heuristic algorithms, and a Large Language Model to generate puzzles with a 50-50 mix of traditional and gaming terminology.

An American Airlines 737 and a Cessna R182 Skylane narrowly avoided a head-on collision in Austin on October 16 due to a TCAS alert. The Cessna unexpectedly turned into the 737's approach path, with the two aircraft separated by just 400 feet.

The user developed a cross-process Spectre attack exploiting an incomplete Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) in Intel Golden Cove and Raptor Cove. The attack targets a SUID program, polkit, and uses a F+R side channel to leak sensitive information, despite the use of IBPB.

US startup Heliospect Genomics offers IQ screening for embryos at $50,000, raising ethics concerns. The company claims to have helped select future children based on genetic predictions of intelligence.

LLMD is a large language model analyzing patient medical history from records and domain knowledge. It outperforms other models on medical benchmarks and production tasks with layered validation and instruction fine-tuning.

Google is cracking down on ad blockers, including uBlock Origin, by automatically disabling them in Chrome. Users can temporarily re-enable their ad blockers, but the best long-term solution is to switch to a non-Chromium browser like Mozilla's Firefox.

Permira acquired Squarespace for $7.2 billion after increasing its offer from $6.9 billion. Squarespace's CEO Anthony Casalena remains a major shareholder after rolling over most of his equity.

Create Diagrams with inner canvases: infinite zoomable canvas is the the way our universe works! Any files that are stored in a vault will appear on the canvas. PDFs, Images, text/markdown files are rendered right away. Also icons! Your data is stored in your files, not a database. LimanDoc will sync immediately with file changes even made outside of the app

Google Translate now supports Inuktut, a Canadian Indigenous language spoken by 39,000 Inuit, thanks to collaboration with Inuit experts and leaders. The platform offers Inuktut in two writing systems, with a tool to convert between them, aiming to improve translation quality over time.

The user's input appears to be a collection of various Discord chat logs and character descriptions from different stories and games, featuring a diverse range of characters and personalities. The logs and descriptions showcase a mix of humor, angst, and fantasy elements, with some users sharing their interests and hobbies.

Objective-S is a programming language that directly expresses architectural patterns in implementation, avoiding the problems associated with creating and maintaining duplicate representations. It introduces syntactic elements and a metaobject protocol to enable polymorphic connections using glue code at the metaobject level.

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World, a cryptocurrency and human identity network, has updated its Orb device to authenticate human identity online and introduced a new service called Orb on Demand. The device is now cheaper and more widely available, with plans to expand to more countries and allow people to purchase or rent their own Orb.

Dottxt is a startup that aims to make AI more useful in work environments by developing a structured generation solution. The company's approach is based on the idea that most text is heavily structured and can be followed by AI models to improve their performance.

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To remotely access Raspberry Pi or IoT devices without port forwarding, use Pinggy.io to create secure tunnels for SSH, VNC, and RDP connections. This allows for seamless remote management and control from anywhere in the world, ensuring optimal performance and security.

AlphaFold program identified three proteins that work together as matchmakers between sperm and eggs in animals. The discovery could lead to a way to screen people with infertility issues and highlights the role of AlphaFold in studying fertilization.

AMD ROCm compute stack is expected to support OpenCL 3.0 after years of sticking to OpenCL 2.1. Recent GitHub activity indicates that OpenCL 3.0 support is under investigation and may be released soon.

The author's vision for Esmeralda is a year-round community inspired by Chautauqua, a town in New York with a mini college campus atmosphere. They're building a prototype village in Healdsburg, CA, and seeking ideas to make Esmeralda an incredible place to live.

Tools for Humanity's World project is expanding its identity beyond cryptocurrency, with a focus on human verification services and blockchain. The project aims to make AI benefits accessible to everyone, but faces adoption and regulatory challenges.

Surgeon Santiago Horgan is using Apple's mixed-reality headset, Apple Vision Pro, in surgeries to improve effectiveness and reduce risk of injury. The headset's price tag of $3,499 is relatively inexpensive compared to medical equipment, making it appealing to smaller hospitals.

The US is facing a housing crisis due to unavailability of homes in major metros and rental vacancy. Housing prices are increasing due to factors like location, season, and mortgage rates.

SpaceX successfully landed the booster stage of its fifth Starship test flight on October 13th. This achievement showcases American capabilities in space beyond other countries.

hi.new is a secure middleware that blocks unwanted emails and allows you to control who contacts you. It generates temporary addresses and adds a no-code contact form to filter out spam and unwanted messages.

BEFLIX is a 1963 embedded language for computer animation created by Ken Knowlton at Bell Labs. It uses a combination of low-level and high-level operations to create animations on the IBM 7090 mainframe computer.

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Home-Imagine is an AI-powered platform that allows users to create design concepts, decorate spaces, and visualize rooms with just a few clicks. It offers a wide range of design styles, colors, and materials to help users bring their vision to life instantly.

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Meta released Spirit LM, an open source multimodal language model mixing text and speech. It overcomes limitations of existing AI voice experiences by learning phonetic, pitch, and tone tokens for natural speech generation.

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Dolphins minimize drag primarily through their streamlined body shape and appendages, with no known contributions from compliant dampening, dermal ridges, secretions, boundary layer heating, or skin folds. Their swimming speed is lower than previously believed, with maximum routine speeds being approximately 3 m/s, and porpoising behavior appears to be the most energetically conservative ...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) tracks the evolution of Solar Cycle 25 from December 2019 to September 2024. SDO views the Sun in visible and ultraviolet light, showing sunspots, faculae, and solar magnetic field lines.

Researchers found that children aged 10-19 diagnosed with COVID-19 had a higher risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes within six months. The risk was even higher for children with obesity and COVID-19.

Researchers evaluated quantized large language models (LLMs) across various benchmarks, finding that they maintain high accuracy and quality compared to full-precision models. Quantized models show competitive accuracy recovery across diverse benchmarks.

The logical fallacy of inventio ad hominem is embedded in patent laws, introducing severe subjectivity into the core of the patent system. This subjectivity results in granted patents being susceptible to revocation and invalidation, undermining their economic value.

The post discusses the challenges of forking WordPress, including the need for a clear motivation, a suitable name, and a plan for governance, community building, and maintenance. The author emphasizes the importance of sustainability, fun, and growth, reminding that a project should outgrow its leader and that a leader should work to make themselves obsolete.