Dan Davies argues that organizations form "accountability sinks" that obscure decision consequences, preventing direct accountability. Accountability sinks break links between decision-makers and those affected, making it hard to change decisions or understand their impact.

Svelte is a compiler that builds efficient web applications by updating the DOM. It's an open source project supported by volunteers and donations.

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Engineers at BitEnergy AI developed Linear-Complexity Multiplication (L-Mul), a method that replaces FPM with integer addition, reducing AI system power consumption by up to 95%. This could make AI more sustainable without sacrificing performance.

Researchers found QUIC's performance over fast networks is reduced by up to 45.2% compared to TCP. High receiver-side processing overhead is the root cause, mainly due to excessive data packets and user-space ACKs.

Encrypt and send files with a link that automatically expires to ensure your important documents don’t stay online forever.

Civet is a programming language that compiles to TypeScript or JavaScript, offering concise syntax and 99% JS/TS compatibility. It adds features and syntactic sugar for easier coding.

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Scalable data management and ML modeling workflow with vector embeddings and reproducible pipelines.

This is a serverless Git server using S3, with LFS integration and encryption, accessed via S3 remotes and IAM permissions. It provides a remote helper for S3 and LFS, with features like tracking, debug logging and doctor commands for managing remote branches.

Designing distributed systems requires a shift in thinking beyond traditional solutions with big servers, databases, and transactions. Key challenges include latency, consistency, and availability tradeoffs, and handling failures, which can be addressed through smart design, cultural and organizational changes, and understanding consensus algorithms like Paxos and RAFT.

The author is retiring their blog, ribbonfarm, after 17 years, with the last post on November 13, 2024, their 50th birthday. The blog will remain active as a museum site, and the author will move to a lower-cost archival hosting model.

A former McKinsey partners wrote about the company's unmanaged growth and lack of strategic focus in March. They warned that the organisation was at risk of losing greatness.

The user successfully implemented a 90.07% accurate MNIST inference engine on a Padauk 8-bit microcontroller with 1024 13-bit memory and 64 bytes of RAM. The engine was optimized by reducing layers, using 2-bit weights, and implementing the inference code in assembly to fit into 1 kilowords of memory.

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - pytudes/ipynb/Triplets.ipynb at main · norvig/pytudes

Dwarf Fortress is a 2-D base building game where players control autonomous dwarves with likes, dislikes, and needs, and must survive the elements while building a fortress. The game is known for its depth and complexity, and the epic rise and fall of the fortress Boatmurdered is a notable example of its chaotic gameplay.

Researchers found four subgroups of autistic people with distinct genetic variants and life outcomes. The variants influence different biological pathways and gene expression at various stages of development.

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The author argues that non-async code, or "blocking" code, is the real "leaky abstraction" because it's hard to call it from async code without resorting to hacks or complex workarounds. The author suggests that async code is actually more predictable and easier to work with than blocking code, and that the main issues with async code are due to library problems rather than the async model itself.

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This Next.js app combines Claude's AI with data visualization to analyze financial data via chat. The AI generates charts like pie charts for various applications, including financial analysis and image analysis.

An 82-year-old Dutch woman named Jo Goosens still rides her 1950s Gazelle bicycle daily, despite many peers switching to e-bikes. She has maintained her bike over the years with regular repairs and polishing.

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Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has been accused of orchestrating a premeditated attack on its competitor WP Engine by commandeering a widely used plugin, Advanced Custom Fields. This move has damaged the reputation of Automattic and raised concerns about supply chain security in the open source community.

Before alarm clocks, people in Britain used knocker uppers who tapped on windows with a stick to wake workers for their shifts. The trade spread across the country, particularly in industrial areas, until it died out in the 1940s and 1950s with the advent of electricity and affordable alarm clocks.

The app Frondly identifies plants with a photo and provides expert care advice through AI-powered chat. It offers instant ID, care tips, and pest identification features for plant enthusiasts and beginners.

Eliza was reprogrammed in Snobol4, making it simpler and more readily understood. Snobol4's unique features and simplicity made it a suitable tool for the task, providing a clear algorithm for the Eliza program.

Cuba's electrical grid failed after a major power plant stopped working, leaving millions without power. The government is working to restore service, with emergency measures in place to slash demand.

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, they can try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

The user uses git extensively with a focus on ease of undo, debug and review, committing early and often, and using pull requests to create a clear, readable history. The user's mental model for git is centered around the merged pull request, not individual commits, and they use various techniques to create a clean and efficient workflow.

People struggle to sync and manage contacts across multiple apps and contexts due to inconsistent results and manual cleanup. Advanced tools like Zapier, HubSpot, or Contact management software can help streamline contact management across various platforms.

X is changing its blocking feature to allow blocked users to view public posts, sparking controversy and criticism. Bluesky gained 1.2 million new users in 2 days after X's announcement, citing a surge in users following X's Brazil ban.

User ran WireGuard on a Raspberry Pi Zero, achieving 30-40 megabits per second speed with iperf and 21 megabits per second with internet speed tests. Results suggest WireGuard on Pi Zero is suitable for occasional use but not for permanent high-throughput usage.

OS researchers are in denial about modern hardware changes, sticking to outdated models. A talk will speculate on this state and suggest re-engaging with current hardware to exploit opportunities.

Mari, a 25-year-old Japanese worker, quit her job due to a threatening boss and sought help from a proxy resignation service. The service, Momuri, has seen soaring demand since it started offering proxy resignations two-and-a-half years ago, helping over 20,000 people quit their jobs.

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Zen Browser is a simple and customizable Firefox-based browser with a focus on user experience and security. It offers features like multiple panes, tracking protection, and a compact mode for improved productivity.

The user is working on a personal project called Plastic, an NES emulator that can be built and used for fun, with a UI that clocks the NES and handles audio and pixel buffers. The emulator is still in development, but it's working well, especially with gamepads and terminals that support button release detection.

GNU Boot project found nonfree code in vboot source used in Coreboot and many Linux distributions. They re-released affected tarballs, improved process, and are contacting distributions to replace nonfree code.

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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” system after four crashes in low-visibility conditions. The investigation will look at the system's ability to detect and respond to reduced visibility conditions.

The user restored their Sun SPARC servers by manually entering NVRAM values and configuring the system to use RARP for IP address auto-configuration. They also encountered issues with memory diagnostics and keyboard input on some machines, but were able to successfully boot and configure one Sun Ultra 1 server.

Otto, a 24-year-old Ugandan schoolteacher, suffered from rheumatic heart disease caused by strep A infections, which he had since childhood. He received treatment but never fully recovered, and his condition worsened over time.

Boeing Starliner’s thruster problems render it unavailable for 2025 missions, forcing NASA to rely on SpaceX and Russia’s Soyuz. NASA still hopes to use Starliner, despite $5 billion spent, once a better understanding of its path to certification is established.

Rakudo is a compiler for Raku code, allowing users to run Raku programs after installation. The provided code showcases Raku's features, including parsing, concurrency, and lazy evaluation.

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The Multics Lisp Compiler (lcp) is a two-pass compiler that upgrades to a modern text representation technology. It explains the value management scheme of lcp, which is relevant to compiler-writing today and has something wonderful to explain.

Penguin Random House updated its copyright pages to protect authors’ intellectual property from being used by AI tools. The new wording reserves the titles from text and data mining exception, excluding use for AI training.

The author discusses the importance of design artifacts in software development, specifically high-level design drawings that raise questions and lower-level diagrams that answer them, and how they should be used to ensure consistency and detect errors early. The author provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and maintain design artifacts, even in existing projects, and how to use them ...

You studied a probabilistic spin glass model to understand its behavior without introducing a Hamiltonian. The model consists of an N x N grid with spins that align with probability p and are opposite with probability 1-p.

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace disagreed on spiritualism, with Wallace believing in a spiritual essence and Darwin a materialist. The Slade trial in 1876 exposed a spirit medium and sparked a controversy between science and spiritualism.

Apple now requires EU app developers to share address, phone number, and email on the EU App Store for trader information. This Digital Services Act requirement will be enforced starting February 17, 2025, with apps without trader status removed from the App Store.

This community is adding a new rule that private messages must be shared with consent, to protect trust and maintain a safe environment. Violations will be handled immediately, enforcing trust and respect in our community.

You stumbled upon a mysterious programming language called "K" with a single-letter name and cryptic syntax, but found it intriguing and appealing. After exploring and experimenting with K, you realized it's part of a family of domain-specific languages with unique features and properties.

The Neom giga-project in Saudi Arabia is currently using one fifth of all the steel produced in the world, an official said

Scientists at the University of Toronto developed new compounds that trigger bacterial cells to self-destruct by targeting a naturally occurring enzyme called ClpP. The compounds kick ClpP into overdrive, killing the bacterial cell from the inside out, potentially treating infections like meningitis and gonorrhea.

Spectra is a hackable smartwatch with ESP32-S3 and nRF52832 co-processor, offering high-end quality with maker-targeted repairability. It has 8MB RAM, 32MB flash, and supports up to 512GB microSD cards.

Abraham Ortelius created the first global atlas, "Theater of the World", in 1570. A satirical map, "Fool's Cap Map of the World", critiques cartography and worldly knowledge.

Reftrack is a GCC plugin for C that tracks references to allocated objects using addref and removeref functions. It provides a way to implement reference counted garbage collection and includes a macro for simplifying declarations and a sample implementation in hrcmm.h.

A person who reverse-engineered PhotoDNA, a tool used to identify child pornography, has revealed its limitations and weaknesses, including its inability to detect minor edits in certain areas of an image, making it possible to generate false-positive results. The person has also demonstrated that PhotoDNA hashes can be reversed into recognizable images, contradicting claims by Microsoft and ...

Rivian and Bosch are locked in a legal battle over breach of contract after Rivian canceled its agreement with Bosch for e-motors. Rivian claims Bosch failed to meet its requirements, while Bosch says Rivian secretly planned to replace its product.

This is a research study on the effects of weak radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) on human cells. The study has demonstrated that exposure to weak RF-EMF can alter cellular processes, including cell proliferation, apoptosis, and ROS balance. The study has also identified several key regulators involved in NADPH metabolism, cellular metabolic activity, and apoptosis, which were ...

React is used for UIs, not games, but can be used as a UI layer on top of a canvas game. This approach is not exclusive to React, but React has an ecosystem advantage with many libraries for UIs.

Researchers from Apple and OpenAI have conducted studies on large language models (LLMs) highlighting their limitations. Apple's study found that LLMs fail to reason mathematically when faced with minor, irrelevant details, suggesting their reasoning is based on pattern matching rather than true logical understanding.