Hussein Mourtada confirmed a deep underlying structure of singularities in curves and surfaces, revealing a connection to Ramanujan's partition identities. Ramanujan's work, inspired by visions, has had a lasting impact on mathematics, appearing in various areas, including algebraic geometry.

Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the WHO after nearly 100 years of efforts to stamp out the disease. The WHO praised Egypt's government and people for their efforts to end a disease that has plagued the country since ancient times.

You need to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent is set. If blocked, try changing back to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

The user received a TV Licensing letter with a request not to write below a certain line, which they found confusing and questioned why they couldn't write there. The user was told that the line is for an OCR machine to scan and update records, but they couldn't understand why the letter needed to be returned for scanning when it already contained the required information.

An amateur historian discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, Gibbet Hill, in the National Library of Ireland archives. The 134-year-old ghostly tale sheds light on Stoker's development as an author and was a significant step towards publishing Dracula.

In William Faulkner's The Unvanquished, Colonel Sartoris suppresses black voters through drastic means. The Jim Crow South later used literacy tests to impede free and fair elections, often administered unfairly to black voters.

Python package version solving is NP-complete, but in practice, it's usually done efficiently due to smaller problem space and monotonic dependencies. The actual bottleneck is metadata fetching and parsing, not backtracking.

This tool extracts html pages from a website and compiles them into an ePub book for eReaders. It's a browser-based scraper for ad hoc use, ideal for sites with dynamic content or those that don't work with traditional scrapers.

ByteDance sacked an intern for maliciously interfering with its AI model training, but claims the damage was exaggerated. The incident did not affect ByteDance's commercial operations, including its large language AI models.

Data Formulator is an AI-powered tool for creating rich visualizations using large language models. It combines user interface interactions and natural language inputs for easier data transformation and visualization.

T-Mobile and AT&T oppose a proposed FCC rule requiring phone unlocking within 60 days of activation, claiming it would make handsets less affordable for consumers. Consumer advocacy groups support the rule, saying it would give users more choice and lower costs.

The IEEE Computer Society published the SWEBOK Guide, a comprehensive guide to software engineering knowledge, to establish a baseline for the field and promote its advancement. The guide consists of 18 knowledge areas and is updated to reflect modern development practices, new techniques, and emerging technologies.

The website is temporarily blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

The Undergraduate Projects Lab at the University of Wisconsin had a camera system since the 1990s, but it was replaced with a $50 webcam and a Raspberry Pi.

Researchers at MIT have developed 3D-printed resettable fuses that can perform switching functions without semiconductors. This technology could democratize electronics fabrication, allowing anyone to create smart hardware outside traditional manufacturing centers.

Scalene is a high-performance Python profiler that runs faster and delivers more detailed information than other profilers. It incorporates AI-powered optimization suggestions and supports CPU, GPU, and memory profiling.

We care about your data, and we'd like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read more about our privacy policy.

Intelsat 33e satellite broke up in geostationary orbit and lost power, affecting customers in Europe, Africa, and Asia Pacific. The US Space Force is tracking 20 pieces of debris and Intelsat is moving customers to other satellites.

Scientists study bird communication, discovering complex vocalizations and social structures in species like greylag geese and songbirds. Researchers use machine learning and audio analysis to decipher bird language, revealing surprising cognitive abilities and intellectual capacities in birds.

The IOCCC Flight Simulator is a public domain flight simulator that won the 1998 International Obfuscated C Code Contest, featuring 6-degree-of-freedom dynamics and loadable wireframe scenery. It can be compiled and run on Unix-like systems with X Windows, allowing users to fly a Piper Cherokee airplane using keyboard controls.

Title inflation in tech has diluted the meaning of career milestones, making it harder to compare roles and recognize true expertise. Companies should focus on creating meaningful career progression frameworks that tie advancements to concrete skills and responsibilities.

Italy's Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders, has caused widespread internet disruptions, including blocking Google Drive, due to lack of transparency and accountability. The Italian government should intervene to prevent future disasters by introducing fines for overblocking and ensuring transparency in internet infrastructure management.

SpaceX's claim of half a centimeter landing accuracy for the Starship booster is unlikely due to limitations in current technology and the complexity of the landing process. The actual accuracy is likely to be around 5-10 meters, but with a large safety margin, and the team has demonstrated impressive control over the vehicle's position and attitude.

The user argues that mainstream statically-typed OOP has a key advantage in allowing straightforward backwards compatible evolution of types while keeping them easy to compose. This is in contrast to Haskell, where composable effects libraries can be difficult to work with and require an entire ecosystem to follow the same pattern.

Hetzner offers a cost-effective alternative to AWS and Azure for hosting applications, with straightforward pricing and no vendor lock-in. It allows companies to deploy applications like UMH without excessive costs or complexity, making it a suitable choice for small IT teams and manufacturing companies.

US Border Patrol's camera towers have been plagued by technical problems and ineffectiveness since the 1990s. Despite repeated failures and billions of dollars spent, the program continues to receive funding and support from Washington.

The user ran the 2024 Chicago Marathon and finished with a time of 2:55:34, an 8-minute personal best and under 3 hours for the first time in their life. They identified areas for improvement, including not logging enough mileage and having a vague goal, but overall felt proud of their performance and grateful for the experience.

Vimium is a browser extension providing keyboard-based navigation and control. It supports command repetition and customizable key bindings.

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world

The author aims to find the optimal shape for a beer glass that minimizes heat transfer while keeping the liquid cold for as long as possible. The solution is an inverse optimization problem that finds the geometry that minimizes the heat transfer rate.

Erin is a self-hosted React app that displays filtered videos using TikTok's interface. It's powered by Caddy and supports custom feeds, video masking, and metadata files for channel and video information.

Researchers at the University of Basel discovered a protein shell in diatoms that enables efficient CO2 fixation. This groundbreaking discovery could inspire new biotechnology applications to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.

LRtDW is a series of articles explaining Rust for low-level C programmers. It guides readers through converting C code to safe Rust while maintaining performance.

Please confirm you are a human by completing the captcha challenge below.

Nilay Patel interviews Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi about the company's acquisitions, including TurboTax, Mailchimp, and Credit Karma, and how they integrate into a single platform. Sasan discusses Intuit's focus on interoperability, AI, and customer experience, and how the company makes decisions using its "Intuit operating system".

This proposal introduces a new safe reference type T% that does not take lifetime arguments, simplifying borrow checking and enforcing exclusivity, a program-wide invariant that legacy references do not uphold. Lifetime parameters are the best solution for specifying constraints, and adopting them would bring C++ closer to Rust, improving interop and reducing the friction of interfacing the ...

Bitwarden users are concerned about the company moving away from open-source due to a recent SDK change that restricts its use outside of Bitwarden. Bitwarden's CTO says the change is a bug and they plan to resolve it to maintain GPL compatibility.

NIST provides guidance on cryptographic key management and algorithm transitions to stronger keys and more robust algorithms. The guidance includes retirement of outdated algorithms and transition to quantum-resistant algorithms.

The book "Rust Projects: Write a Redis Clone" is a hands-on guide for building a Redis-like database in Rust, covering concepts from TCP ports to concurrency. It offers a 100% refund guarantee within 60 days, making it a risk-free purchase for Rust enthusiasts.

Benji Jones, an environmental correspondent at Vox, is covering COP16, the UN biodiversity summit in Colombia, where countries will assess progress on conserving nature and reducing ecological collapse. The summit will focus on issues like managing genetic data, funding conservation, and monitoring progress toward 23 targets to halt biodiversity loss by 2030.

The author improved Castro's backend performance by optimizing network requests and database connections, reducing worker time from 1.3-1.4 seconds to 0.5 seconds. This improvement allowed for more frequent feed updates, reducing the time between updates from 20 minutes to 10-12 minutes.

Hi, Over the past 3 years the pace of development in APS has steadily fallen off as maintainers including myself have moved on to other things. I no longer have time and motivation to dedicate to t...

Germany's four-day workweek trial ended but 73% of participants want to continue. Many businesses, like Solidsense, are considering making the change permanent.

We developed Saby Explain, a tool to help developers analyze and optimize query performance in PostgreSQL, addressing common issues like slow queries, inefficient algorithms, and outdated statistics. The tool provides a visual representation of query plans, allowing developers to identify and fix issues, and has been successfully implemented in our company, improving query performance and ...

Perplexity Finance is a new platform providing tools for exploring company financials, stock performance, and industry comparisons with data from Financial Modeling Prep. It's available on desktop only and requires a $20/month Perplexity Pro account for access.

ByteDance fired an intern who sabotaged AI models, causing tens of millions in losses, but claims were exaggerated. The company is now focusing on expanding its AI capabilities and competing with rivals in the AI race.

Scientific discoveries can remain hidden for decades due to lack of technology, poor access to findings, or lack of interdisciplinary collaboration, but can be rediscovered and become highly influential. Using AI to mine the scientific literature can help find and combine previously unknown knowledge, potentially accelerating scientific progress and awakening "sleeping beauties" in the ...

Big Tech's lavish benefits and job security for engineers created a culture of entitlement, but the party is over due to AI and massive layoffs. Engineering leaders must adapt to a new reality where they're expected to explain their work and justify their teams, or risk losing their narrative and continuity of their businesses.

AWS CEO Matt Garman defended the company's 5-day in-office policy, saying those unhappy can leave for other jobs. He believes in-person work fosters innovation and collaboration.

Indian airlines have faced 90 hoax bomb threats in a week, causing international travel chaos and severe disruption to the aviation industry. Authorities are struggling to identify the source and motive behind the threats, which are largely sent via email or social media.

The Secret History of the Mongols is a 13th-century native Mongolian narrative documenting Chinggis Khan's ascension and Mongolian expansion. It provides a rich insight into world history, Mongolian historiography, culture, life, and language.

doom.svg

Several high-level Alzheimer's researchers have been accused of credible fraud, including Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Sylvain Lesné, Hoau-Yan Wang, Eliezer Masliah, Berislav Zlokovic, and Domenico Praticò. These researchers have been linked to fraudulent papers and images that have misled the field of Alzheimer's research.

Influenza vaccines may be adjusted to include only three strains due to the likely extinction of the Yamagata lineage of influenza B viruses. This change could increase vaccine production from 500 million to 700 million doses per year.

This is an open-source book introducing the Zig programming language for building robust software. It's designed for beginners and experienced developers with projects like Base64 encoder and HTTP Server.

Baidu CEO Robin Li claims large language models have solved hallucinations, but predicts an AI bubble will burst, wiping out many startups. He also estimates it will take 10-30 years for AI to displace human jobs.

Meta's Israel policy chief, Jordana Cutler, pushed for censorship of Instagram accounts belonging to Students for Justice in Palestine, citing Meta's Dangerous Organizations policy. Experts express alarm over Cutler's role in representing Israeli interests and moderating content that runs contrary to those interests.

You're a data/BE expert struggling to transition to customer-facing work due to lack of UI/UX knowledge. To learn, study design principles, human-centered design, and popular UI/UX frameworks like Material Design or Bootstrap.

John Kinsel Sr, a 107-year-old Navajo Code Talker, has died, leaving only two remaining alive. He and hundreds of others transmitted crucial messages in their native language during World War II.

Ecovacs Deebot X2 robot vacuum cleaners in the US were hacked to yell obscenities and insults through onboard speakers. Hackers bypassed the four-digit pin protection by exploiting a weakness in the app, prompting Ecovacs to issue a security upgrade.

I've been using (and paying for) Bitwarden for years now, but it appears they have recently chosen to abandon open source[1]. I'm not all too happy with having the rug pulled from under me. Is there an alternative that you would recommend? Preferably something that is open source, audited and has an Android client. Happy to pay a reasonable subscription.

VLC media player originated from a French academic project in 1996, evolving from a humble client to a standalone titan with a unique format-agnostic nature. Its open-source ethos, robust features, and adaptability have made VLC a global phenomenon, downloaded over 3.5 billion times and a benchmark for other media players.

IBM released Granite 3.0, a large language model with state-of-the-art performance and safety features for enterprise use cases. The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be fine-tuned for specific needs through InstructLab.

Internet Archive has resumed Wayback Machine and Archive-It services, offering archive.org in read-only mode due to recent cyberattacks. The team is strengthening defenses and analyzing the incident to ensure data safety and integrity.

Python packages don't require __init__.py files since Python 3.3, but they're still used to mark directories as packages. Omitting them can cause issues with tooling and developer confusion, so it's recommended to use them.

rip is a Rust-based rm alternative with a focus on safety and performance. It sends deleted files to the graveyard under their absolute path, allowing for recovery.

The author compares the new iPhone 16 Pro to their Canon R5 camera, highlighting the improved ultra-wide camera and new JPEG XL compression for RAW images. The iPhone 16 Pro's ultra-wide sensor shows mixed results, while the JPEG XL compression yields impressive results with detailed images at smaller sizes.

Vor zwei Wochen habe ich einen WANG 720C bekommen. Dabei handelt es sich um einen programmierbaren Tischrechner in DTL-/TTL-Logik mit 2-zeiliger Nixie-Röhrenanzeige, Kernspeicher und handgefädeltem Microcode-ROM. Programme und Daten konnten auf Kassetten…

Philip G Zimbardo, a renowned psychologist, died at 91. He studied how environments influence behavior and is known for the Stanford Prison Experiment, which showed how situations can alter individual behavior.

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

A mondegreen is a misheard or misinterpreted phrase that gives it a new meaning. It often occurs when a person listens to a song or poem and substitutes words that sound similar and make sense.

To display a file's contents without using cat, you can use the shell builtin read with redirection or command substitution with echo. Alternatively, you can use utilities like tac or ul.

Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

User implemented Emacs-style ranges in a text editor, initially using pivots but later simplifying to direct locations. The process took 2 days and 200 lines of code, with a higher bar for elegance and a lesson in not overcomplicating designs.

Andreas Werckmeister described tuning systems in his writings, including Werckmeister I, II, and III temperaments. These temperaments use a combination of pure and tempered intervals to create a unique sound.

Disney Plus and Hulu now direct iOS users to their websites to subscribe, not through Apple, to avoid Apple taking a cut of new subscription revenues. This change follows Netflix and Spotify's similar moves to stop iOS app subscriptions.

Machine learning can enhance numerical modeling in plasma physics by applying advances from fluid mechanics. A roadmap is proposed to transfer ML advances in fluid flow modeling to computational plasma physics.

VPTQ is a novel Post-Training Quantization method that leverages Vector Quantization to achieve high accuracy on LLMs at extremely low bit-width (<2-bit). It can compress large models like 70B and 405B to 1-2 bits without retraining.

The API is now live!

A physicist, Baiju Bhatt, is starting a space solar startup called Aetherflux to reinvent space-based solar power with a small investment. Aetherflux plans to launch a single satellite in low-Earth orbit to test the technology and provide power to remote locations.

Ryzen 9000 X3D Series listings have appeared online with prices ranging from $484 to $524.62, suggesting an imminent release and improved gaming performance. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is expected to offer significant gains over its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.

The Online Teleprompter offers customizable features for smooth delivery across devices. It's free and versatile for various users including content creators, public speakers, and educators.

37signals saved almost $2 million in its first "clean year" after switching to on-prem from cloud services. The company has already recouped the costs of extra hardware and expects total savings to be over $10 million over five years.

d2c.sh is a bash script that updates Cloudflare DNS records with the current public IP of a machine. It uses TOML files in /etc/d2c/ for configuration.

C++ implementations must define the language and follow the C standard. C++ is a general-purpose language based on the C programming language.