The user is a heavy user of Claude's Artifacts feature, using it for 14 projects in one week to create interactive web apps, tools, and prototypes, often solving immediate problems and exploring new ideas.

Arm Holdings is canceling a license for Qualcomm to use its intellectual property for chip design. This escalates a legal dispute over smartphone technology, with Qualcomm given 60 days notice.

User created AI-driven art using StreamDiffusion and a webcam, aiming to surface new views of the world. They built an LCD frame to display the art, achieving permanence and new interaction channels.

Claude's new computer use capabilities are demonstrated through Agent.exe, a simple Electron app controlling local computers. It prefers Firefox and can be stopped at any time if the model gets confused.

The user built a system to display real-time transit arrival times on an old Kindle device using a Raspberry Pi and a Rust HTTP server, which fetches data from the 511.org API and renders it as a PNG image. The system was designed to be reliable and efficient, with features such as caching and error handling, and was deployed to power a Kindle display on the user's wall.

Lichess.org uses WebSockets for real-time gameplay, exchanging data packets between client and server. The move event is published to Redis, processed by lila, and updated in MongoDB before being sent back to the client.

The user helped a friend with an AI app that uses Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and noticed that tokenization is a crucial but often overlooked step in RAG pipelines. Poor tokenization can lead to "garbage-in garbage-out" issues, and the user highlights the importance of understanding tokenizers, their limitations, and how to improve them to achieve better results in RAG apps.

Goldman Sachs and Apple must pay $89.8 million for violating consumer credit card laws. Goldman will pay $64.8 million, with $19.8 million going back to consumers and $45 million in penalties.

A New Jersey law enforcement class is suing data brokers for violating Daniel's Law, which allows law enforcement to have their information removed from commercial data brokers. The lawsuit targets Babel Street, a company that offers a platform to track mobile devices and access location data.

You created a simple PHP website that converts HEX to RGB colors, which has unexpectedly become a massive site with 60k-100k daily bot visits due to its large number of sub-pages. The site's popularity has overwhelmed you, leaving you unsure of how to manage it.

The PSVita's CPU is an ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, a quad-core processor with a clock speed of up to 500 MHz, featuring a mix of designs authored by different companies. The CPU includes a Media Processing Engine (MPE) and a NEON Media Processing Engine (MPE), which execute two different instruction sets for 3D applications and vector operations.

The user disagrees with Ben Recht's blog post claiming the Higgs discovery is a celebration of modern bureaucracy, not a revelation about material reality. The user argues that particle physicists are skeptical and use robust methods to confirm discoveries, and that the Higgs discovery has significant implications for our understanding of the universe.

The US Forest Service will cut 2,400 seasonal jobs and freeze external hiring for permanent positions due to a budget shortfall. This decision will severely impact fieldwork, trail maintenance, and recreation programs, affecting employees and partner organizations.

The Damas-Hindley-Milner (HM) type system is being extended with row polymorphism to support dynamic records with any number of fields and values. Row polymorphism is achieved through unification of rows, which are mappings of names to types, and the use of let polymorphism to generalize function types with unbound type variables.

Toasty is an asynchronous Rust ORM for SQL and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB and Cassandra. It prioritizes ease of use and is still in early development, open for feedback and contributions.

You built a machine that generates analog randomness for digital keys, with potential uses beyond crypto including clinical trials, non-technical management, and estate planning. It provides transparency and ease of use for users of all ages and technical backgrounds.

Rust added async/await in 2019, allowing programs to do more than one thing at a time. Async is popular for websites and network services handling many connections.

VALORANT developers Matt deWet and David Straily discuss the technical challenges of creating a competitive tactical shooter, including peeker's advantage, poor hit registration, and simulation divergence. They explain how they addressed these issues through investments in Riot Direct, server optimization, and client performance, aiming to provide a fair and rewarding experience for players.

Zesfy integrates productivity workflow with calendar by breaking tasks into steps and tracking progress. It organizes tasks by due date and filters events to keep schedules clutter-free.

Apple is releasing iOS 18.2 in the EU, allowing users to fully delete core apps like the App Store and Safari, except for Phone and Settings. In the US, users can only hide these apps, not delete them.

Cloudflare has integrated BastionZero's technology into its SASE platform, Cloudflare One, to provide Access for Infrastructure, which enables organizations to apply Zero Trust controls to their servers, databases, and other infrastructure. The feature includes short-lived SSH access, which eliminates the risk and overhead of managing SSH keys and passwords, and provides granular control over ...

Apple has reduced Vision Pro headset production due to weak demand and high price. The company may stop making the current version by the end of 2024 or resume production if sales pick up.

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Huawei launched HarmonyOS NEXT, its home-brewed OS, marking separation from Android. The OS has 110 million lines of code and offers improved performance and battery life.

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Chris and Chris from MobileBoost are building GPT Driver, an AI-native E2E testing solution for mobile apps. It uses visual approach and LLM reasoning to reduce test flakiness and maintenance effort.

Anvil is a graphical tiling editor with mouse integration and shell support. It features syntax highlighting, remote editing, and a powerful text manipulation language.

Paper mill companies are producing fake research papers by offering authorship services to researchers and academics, putting the integrity of global academic research at risk. The industry is estimated to have earned around $10 million globally, with the public footing the bill for fraudulent research practices that siphon resources away from genuine academic advancements.

T-Mobile customers are complaining to the FCC about a price hike on plans that were advertised as having a lifetime price lock. Over 2,000 customers have filed complaints, citing T-Mobile's promise to never raise prices as a guarantee.

Meaningful link text helps readers quickly understand where a link will go. It also improves search engine results and content visibility.

RISC-V CPUs are currently slow compared to modern CPUs, with single-threaded scores around 80 and multi-threaded scores around 400. They lack advanced features and are mainly used in embedded applications where cost and power efficiency are more important than raw speed.

HuggingChat macOS is a native chat interface for macOS users with advanced AI capabilities. It can be launched from the Applications folder or with the ⌘ + Shift + Return shortcut.

The user has traditionally preferred merging over rebasing in Git due to its ability to keep more history and fewer conflicts, but has now adopted a "fearless rebasing" approach thanks to a new feature in GitButler. This feature allows for successful rebasing with conflicts marked and resolved one by one, making the process easier and more painless.

The author implemented a new domain-specific language (DSL) for specifying peephole optimizations on integer operations in the JIT compiler, which uses pattern matching to simplify and optimize integer operations. The DSL is proven correct with Z3 before being compiled into JIT code, and it has been merged into PyPy's main branch, but still lacks support for overflow-checking variants and ...

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Novo Nordisk is lobbying the FDA to add semaglutide to the Demonstrable Difficulties for Compounding list to block compounding pharmacies from producing cheaper versions. The move aims to ensure patient safety and protect the company's revenue stream from the popular compounded weight-loss drugs.

Roland Warzecha and others discuss how to hold European swords of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, the Naue type II, with varying grip styles and theories.

The user plotted the daylight hours over 16 years and found a sine wave fit with a period of 365.25 days. The error between actual and fitted data varied sinusoidally with a period of about 4 months.

The user is revising the "System Modeling" chapter of their book "Logic for Programmers" and is explaining the temporal logic of actions that TLA+ is based on using a simple banking system example. They introduce the concept of temporal operators and how they can be used to model how things change over time, and explain how this makes it ideal for modeling software systems.

The user worked on introducing a new string DType in NumPy 2.0, which supports UTF-8 encoded variable-width strings and handles missing data directly, and shares their experience and insights on tackling mental blocks and becoming a maintainer. The new string DType in NumPy 2.0 brings significant improvements, including short string optimization and arena allocator, and the user hopes to ...

The ARM7TDMI CPU has a unique multiplication algorithm that uses carry save adders to compress addends generated by Booth's algorithm. The algorithm can process 7 bits of the multiplier in the first cycle, but the carry flag behavior is still not fully understood.

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OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform for logs, metrics, and traces with high performance and low storage cost. It's a simpler alternative to Elasticsearch with a seamless replacement for users who ingest data via APIs.

The author is pleased with the new version 0.11.0 of ParadeDB, a Postgres-based alternative to ElasticSearch, which simplifies query planning and execution. This version makes it easier for DBALs to support ParadeDB, reducing the need for forking and ETL processes.

The user discusses the limitations of traditional editor-centric approaches to collaborative document editing and proposes a document-centric approach using CRDTs for a more flexible and scalable experience. This approach separates the document data layer from the editor logic, enabling easier data sharing, history management, and UI construction.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute developed a live imaging method to study ovulation in unprecedented detail, revealing three distinct phases: follicle expansion, contraction, and rupture. The method used confocal and two-photon microscopy to capture the ovulation process at 10-minute intervals over 24 hours.

A Linux kernel maintainer removed several maintainers citing compliance requirements without explanation. This triggered concerns about transparency and Linus Torvalds responded aggressively to critics.

Zsolt Ero, a software developer, is searching for a reliable and secure authentication solution for his new web app and browser extension, having previously used server-side sessions with password login. After evaluating several popular authentication providers, including Supabase, NextAuth.js, Clerk, FusionAuth, ZITADEL, Firebase, Supertokens, and Ory, he decided to go with Ory due to its ...

Tim Thomas filed a federal lawsuit after his property was searched multiple times by water conservation officers without a warrant or consent. He seeks to change a Pennsylvania law that allows water conservation officers to enter private property without probable cause or a warrant.

The author improved a JavaScript function for creating a user account by using named constants, breaking down complex logic into separate functions, and applying short-circuit evaluation. The revised code is now more readable and maintainable.

UC Santa Cruz professor Benjamin Breen reflects on how communication technologies evolve by layering, with older forms becoming decontextualized rather than disappearing. He notes that letter-writing, once a laborious and unreliable process, became a mass communication form with the advent of widespread literacy and improved postal systems.

EviCore, a company owned by Cigna, uses algorithms to deny medical treatments for patients, often based on its own internal guidelines, which can lead to delayed or denied care. The company's business model is based on reducing health spending, and it has been accused of prioritizing profits over patient care, leading to tens of millions of denied claims every year.

A blogger explains the norm-square of a complex number z is calculated as z times its complex conjugate, not z times its complex conjugate divided by z. This is because the latter expression has an angle that cannot be eliminated.

Srcbook is a TypeScript-centric app development platform that uses AI as a pair-programmer for fast web app creation and iteration. It's open-source and runs locally, requiring a user-provided API key for AI usage.

The 1999 film "Office Space" and Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk's 2001 book "Office" captured the drabness and hostility of modern workspaces, particularly in the early 2000s. Their work highlighted the oppressive effects of technology on office life, foreshadowing the alienation and dehumanization of work in the Network Age.

Cookies are categorized into necessary, functional, performance, analytical, advertisement, and other types based on their functionality. Each type of cookie serves a specific purpose such as security, functionality, analysis, or advertising.

Researchers found that short bursts of exercise, such as walking or climbing stairs, consume 20-60% more energy than continuous activity. This is because the body uses more energy to gear up for an activity than to maintain a steady pace.

Boeing reported a $6.2 billion quarterly loss due to commercial airplane unit and space defense business issues. New CEO Kelly Ortberg aims to change culture, stabilize business, and improve execution to return Boeing to its former legacy.

Hi-Fi Stereo Review published a 1988 overview of new-model tape decks during cassette culture's peak. This coincided with high tape sales and widespread car stereos with tape players.

Wikipedia removed an article on ANI's defamation lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation after a Delhi High Court order. The article was taken down for allegedly interfering with court proceedings, a rare instance in Wikipedia's history.

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for scientific research documents. The Kronos project created a 32-bit processor with hardware support for high-level languages, used in embedded systems and workstations.

BazelCon 2024 and the adjacent Build Meetup were covered in a massive piece, summarizing 40 minutes of content in under an hour. The piece covered various topics including Bazel adoption, remote execution, IDE support, toolchains, and more.

Loris Cro created SuperHTML, a language server for HTML that provides live validation and autocorrect. It's a first of its kind, built in Wasm using WASI, and compatible with various code editors.

Ryde is a Rust web framework that uses macros to create a DSL for web development, reducing boilerplate code. It's built on top of Axum and Tokio for efficient web development.

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.

Researchers discovered vulnerabilities in Samsung mobile devices' boot chain, allowing an attacker to bypass secure boot and take control over the Android system. The vulnerabilities, including a heap overflow in the JPEG loader and a bug in the Odin recovery protocol, can be exploited with physical access to the device.

Using a personal laptop for work may be unwise due to potential malware risks and legal liabilities. It's best to use company-provided hardware to avoid complications and maintain a clear separation between work and personal activities.

Blair Kamin, a retired Chicago Tribune architecture critic, funded a new architecture writer at the Tribune to continue coverage despite the paper's budget cuts. The arrangement allows the Tribune to maintain editorial control while Kamin's grant supports the writer's biweekly columns.

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Wireshark can be configured to cause confusion by setting display filters, colors, and disabling protocols. Other methods include modifying the hosts file, changing character sets, and manipulating packet displays.

The water cycle is malfunctioning due to human activity and climate change, with demand expected to outstrip supply by 40 percent by the end of the decade. Governments and the global community must work together to address the crisis and ensure the world's water supply remains sustainable.

A concrete cycle model is proposed to effectively recycle and utilize waste concrete, producing high-quality recycled concrete through technical means like separation, carbon sequestration, and reactivation. This model can reduce CO2 emissions by 0.186 tons per ton of recycled concrete compared to normal concrete.

The author implemented TCP Fast Open (TFO) in PowerDNS Recursor to reduce TCP overhead, but encountered issues with server-side TFO due to lack of documentation and conservative Linux behavior. The author also found that Google's DNS service does not properly implement TFO.

The main reason IPv6 hasn't replaced IPv4 is that mobile networks and devices used NAT to scale, making IPv6 unnecessary. IPv6 is not critical to service delivery environments, as content frameworks and applications replicate services.

Determinate Systems announces general availability of FlakeHub Cache and private flakes, enhancing Nix adoption for teams. These features provide secure, unified caching and private flake sharing with fine-grained access controls.

SpinLaunch is developing a satellite launch system using a giant rotating arm to fling satellites into space without rocket fuel. This technology could revolutionize satellite deployment, making it cleaner, more efficient, and accessible.

Israel's secret drone, RA-01, has been revealed through leaked US intelligence documents, which also mention Israel's air-launched ballistic missiles and nuclear arsenal. The RA-01 is likely a stealthy drone used for covert missions, possibly designed to support Israel's ongoing stand-off with Iran.

LLMs predict answers based on patterns in training data, not true understanding, by counting frequency of phrases. This approach works well for common knowledge but fails when questions are outside training data bounds.

Raspberry Pi Ltd has released the Raspberry Pi SSD Kit and Raspberry Pi SSD to support the Raspberry Pi 5. The SSD Kit includes an M.2 HAT+ board with a 256GB or 512GB NVMe SSD for a speed boost.

Comic Sans, a font designed by Vincent Connare in 1994, was initially meant for Microsoft Bob but became popular for its quirky style. Despite being widely criticized and even sparking a "ban" movement, the font has seen a decline in backlash and is now being used in mainstream publications without much controversy.

The Nekromanteion was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy in Epirus, near the city of Ephyra, where devotees believed they could communicate with the dead. The site was identified in 1958 but its authenticity is now questioned due to topographical and dating issues.

Researchers developed PICE, an algorithm that uses polyhedral geometry to find minimal counterfactual explanations for neural networks. PICE outperforms other methods on real-world datasets in terms of distance to decision boundary and desiderata such as sparsity and robustness.

Google Cloud VPC includes Class E addresses as part of its valid address ranges for IPv4, offering a significantly larger pool of IP addresses compared to traditional RFC 1918 private addresses. Class E addresses can be used for private use within Google Cloud VPCs, providing scalability and growth for organizations facing IP address exhaustion.

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Tesla reports strong Q3 results with growth in vehicle deliveries and energy storage deployments. The company expects slight growth in vehicle deliveries in 2024 and more than double year-over-year energy storage deployments.

The Embedded Muse Issue 500 marks its final issue after 27 years, with editor Jack Ganssle retiring completely. He shares lessons from a half-century in embedded systems, including the importance of robust code, physics-based validation, and not assuming input data is correct.

Microsoft Excel was first released in 1985 as a Mac application, later ported to Windows in 1987. It eventually dominated the market, becoming the most widely used spreadsheet program, with its formulas constituting the world's most widely used programming language.

Anthropic's new AI model allows computer use in public beta, enabling developers to direct Claude to use computers like people do. This groundbreaking feature is still experimental and error-prone, but it marks a significant step towards agent AIs that can take over tasks with full autonomy.

The puzzle is about figuring out the order of execution of lines marked A, B, C, and D from a stacktrace, which is made harder by chained exceptions and the way Python presents stacktraces. The issue is that Python's stacktrace is split into two parts, making it hard to read the order of execution from top to bottom.