Shipping a project in a big tech company requires a different set of skills than writing code, and involves getting the company's leadership to acknowledge the project's completion. To successfully ship a project, one person needs to have an end-to-end understanding of the project, maintain trust with the leadership team, and prioritize shipping over other tasks, such as polishing the ...

The app converts links between streaming services, providing previews and easy sharing. It uses adapters for supported platforms like Spotify, with features shown in a provided table.

Steam client developers fixed Linux crashes by revamping setenv and getenv functions due to their thread safety issues. They pre-allocated large buffers at startup to mitigate data races and significantly reduced SIGABRT volumes.

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The author discusses historical maps from World War II, highlighting their role in conveying the complexity of the conflict to the public. These maps provide a unique perspective on the war, showcasing the perspectives of different nations and the changing geography of the world during this time.

The author successfully sent their first Ethernet packet using a W5100 chip on an STM32F401 microcontroller, but encountered several bugs and challenges along the way, including a hardware issue with the Arduino shield and a software bug in their driver code. They used a logic analyzer and a debugging tool to identify and fix the issues, and ultimately learned the importance of exploration ...

YubiKey is selling old stock with vulnerable firmware instead of disposing of it. This firmware is susceptible to the EUCLEAK attack, but the user's threat model doesn't require high security.

The author and mclare recreated the Truck Factor research paper, which calculates how many team members must leave a project before it stalls, and found a lower number for the Linux kernel. They discovered issues with the original code and found a truck factor of 8 for Linux, lower than the original 80.

Google's internal prediction market, Prophit, was launched in 2005 and initially successful but ultimately shut down in 2011 due to regulatory hurdles and lack of external launch support. A second internal prediction market, Gleangen, was launched in 2020 and continued to operate, but its success was limited by poor execution and a failure to understand client needs, highlighting the ...

You created free brushes with clean icons and descriptive titles, hoping users will share their art.

A manager in a phone call told a worker Apple did not want employees talking about wages or pay equity, the complaint alleged.

An elderly Asian elephant named Mary at the Berlin Zoo has been observed using a hose as a showerhead, demonstrating sophisticated tool use. Another elephant, Anchali, has been seen sabotaging Mary's showers by kinking the hose, suggesting complex problem-solving and insight.

Better Source, a Bay Area company, liquidates used office furniture from failed tech companies, selling high-end items at discounted prices. Founded in the early 2000s, the company has a $20 million business, with most inventory coming from shuttered tech companies.

The Antarctic Fire Department provides emergency services on Ross Island, supporting the US Antarctic Program in extreme conditions. They offer diverse employment opportunities for firefighters to work in a unique, challenging, and rewarding environment.

The author proposes that cephalopods, such as octopuses and squids, could have reached a Neolithic stage of civilization in the distant past. This idea is based on the author's observations of cephalopod behavior and their complex nervous systems, which could have led to a level of technological achievement similar to that of early humans.

The author optimized a naive WebGPU Matrix Multiplication (matmul) kernel to achieve 1TFLOPS+ of arithmetic intensity by increasing the number of threads per workgroup and using 2D tiling. This optimization resulted in a 1000x speedup over the original kernel and approached the theoretical peak of an Apple M2 Pro, with potential for further improvements using features like subgroups.

Two mathematicians, Noam Elkies and Zev Klagsbrun, discovered a record-breaking elliptic curve with the most complicated pattern of rational points to date. Their discovery breaks an 18-year-old record and expands the frontier of the uncharted world of elliptic curves.

The author created a trading game using a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, where players can simulate market-making and manage risk, and the game's performance and stats are sent to a QuestDB instance for real-time analysis. The project involved learning new skills, such as 3D printing and PCB design, and using the Pico's capabilities to create a complex system that can run an exchange, ...

You set up a Minecraft server at mc.pieter.com:25565 and an IRC chat server at irc.pieter.com:6667, inviting users to join and chat.

SST now supports native container deployment on AWS with a new family of components for ECS, Fargate, and VPC configuration. This includes cost-effective pricing and improved CLI features for local development and resource access.

A new study found standing for long periods may not be better than sitting and comes with its own risks, including increased circulatory disease risk. The study suggests mixing standing with other forms of activity is key to reducing health risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle.

You ordered 2 Macbooks from Apple Canada for $2500, but they were stolen after being delivered by Uber. Apple refused to provide a replacement or refund, citing that the item shows as delivered.

TinyTroupe is a Python library that simulates people with specific personalities, interests, and goals using Large Language Models (LLMs) for research and business scenarios. It allows users to create simulations, extract results, and gain insights into human behavior, with applications in advertisement evaluation, software testing, training, and product management.

AlphaFold 3 is a protein structure prediction model provided by Google DeepMind, subject to terms of use and citation requirements. It is available for non-commercial use at alphafoldsever.com with limited ligands and covalent modifications.

The author argues that many security controls are useless and waste resources, and that security teams should be able to explain the reasoning behind each control.

Apple's new ads for Apple Intelligence portray the features as tools for the lazy and thoughtless, rather than enhancing productivity and relationships. Positive ads could show Apple Intelligence helping people with dyslexia, busy professionals, or those with disabilities, showcasing its potential to make a real difference.

Chordcat is a C++ application using SFML that names chords based on an algorithm that considers each note as the root and calculates intervals to match chord names from a database. The algorithm iterates through notes, calculates intervals, and sorts candidate chord names by the number of accidentals to provide the final list of chord names.

Legalized mobile sports betting has proven to be a huge mistake with societal impacts far worse than expected, including a 28% increase in bankruptcies and a 9% increase in domestic violence on days when the home team suffers an upset loss. The current business model is highly predatory, pushing terrible products at terrible prices to vulnerable people, and the Federal Government and states ...

Mostek used the Fairchild Sentry 610 test system to test Z80 microprocessors and other complex integrated circuits in the 1970s and 1980s. The Sentry 610 was a versatile analytical tester that could perform a wide range of tests on various components at high speeds, making it a crucial tool for Mostek's engineering and production needs.

Cinephiles often break the law to watch hard-to-find arthouse films due to limited official releases and strict distribution rules. Online platforms like Rarefilmm and archive.org provide curated collections of niche films, but their legitimacy and availability can be uncertain.

And I thought I’d share. I used a Framework 13 mainboard as the core, added IO board to both sides of it and a couple of extra boards for the keyboard, Magsafe and the charge state button.

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Chegg's stock has dropped 99% since 2021, erasing $14.5 billion in value, due to the rise of ChatGPT. The company is struggling to convince customers and investors it still has value in a market dominated by the AI chatbot.

Scientists dropped gophers on Mount St. Helens in 1980 to test their ability to regenerate life. The gophers' beneficial bacteria and fungi helped restore plant and animal life, with effects still visible 40 years later.

Cookies are categorized into necessary, analytical, and advertisement types, each serving a different purpose. They track website interactions, provide security, and offer customized ads to visitors.

Researchers investigate test-time training (TTT) to improve language models' reasoning capabilities on novel tasks. TTT significantly improves performance on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) tasks, achieving up to 6× improvement in accuracy.

Scientists in South Africa claim to have successfully brought back the quagga, a zebralike mammal, from extinction. However, not everyone is convinced of its authenticity.

Entity Manager is a database schema interpreter that takes a highly opinionated approach to the single-table design pattern in DynamoDB. It requires a composite primary key and supports secondary indexes to efficiently query and retrieve data.

Binary quantized vector embeddings retain 95%+ retrieval accuracy with 32x compression and 25x speedup by converting 32-bit weights to single bits and using Hamming distance. This technique offers significant storage and lookup speed improvements over traditional cosine similarity calculations.

VMware Fusion and Workstation are now free for all users, including commercial, educational, and personal users. The free version includes all features and support through standard channels, with online resources available for troubleshooting and guidance.

Eye Tracking on iPhone uses the front-facing camera to control the device with eye movements. Calibration involves following a dot on the screen with your eyes to set up the onscreen pointer.

Early sound recording methods and wax cylinder records are explored through vintage photos and original recordings. A "Cylinder of the Month" features a new two-minute wax cylinder recording every month.

DeepMind has released the code for AlphaFold3, a protein-structure prediction model, allowing scientists to use it non-commercially. The move reverses the company's earlier decision to restrict access to the model, sparking criticism from scientists who value reproducibility.

To verify a Debian download, use the SHA512SUMS file with its matching .sign file to check the checksum. This ensures the download is correct and from Debian.

The author is implementing an Order-Independent Transparency (OIT) solution to render transparent objects in any order, reducing performance costs and overdraw issues. The solution uses wavelet coefficients to represent transmittance over depth, allowing for accurate and efficient rendering of complex scenes with multiple overlapping transparent surfaces.

This page recreates the Flash Kit experience using Wayback Machine data, but some content is missing due to only one-third of original files being preserved. Users can submit missing content or report broken files for removal or fixing.

Taiwan's technology protection rules prevent TSMC from producing 2-nanometer chips abroad. TSMC's core technology will stay in Taiwan despite plans to produce 2-nanometer chips in the US by the end of the decade.

Rose Tinted Spectrum, a popular retro gaming channel, was terminated by YouTube for violating spam/deceptive practice/abuse policies. Fans and followers are expressing concern and calling for a human review of the decision.

The document is a Microsoft Word file with properties such as author, creation date, and total time. It contains 648 words, 30 lines, and 3698 characters.

OpenAI's Orion model barely outperforms GPT-4, and the AI industry is experiencing a slowdown in progress. Companies are shifting focus to using synthetic data and combining language models with reasoning approaches to achieve further advancements.

RTEMS is an open source Real Time Operating System supporting POSIX API for various embedded devices. It supports 18 processor architectures and has a strong community for long term maintenance and support.

Public health agencies disagree on when to use electric fans due to differing temperature thresholds, ranging from 32.2°C to 40°C. New research suggests fans can be beneficial in humid conditions above 35°C, but may be counterproductive in dry conditions.

Mattel is taking action after printing a pornographic website address on packaging for Wicked dolls. The misprint has affected dolls sold at Target, Kohls, and Amazon, and Mattel advises consumers to discard the packaging.

Ben Horowitz donated $7.6 million to the Las Vegas police department to fund purchases of technology from his portfolio companies. His donations have raised concerns about transparency and potential conflicts of interest in police technology acquisitions.

The article discusses a mathematical puzzle where a diagram can be drawn without retracing lines if every vertex has an even number of lines. A proof shows that this is true, and the same principle can be applied to colouring doodles with two colours.

Apple's M4 family of chips has various models with different core counts and configurations. The M4 P cores have variable frequency, idle at 1,260 MHz, and consume 1-2 mW when idle.

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This release introduces recurring job scheduling using cron-like syntax and enhanced documentation. A migration step is required to use the new feature, with an example provided in the README.

Baylor researchers found that astrocytes, or 'brain stars,' play a key role in storing and retrieving memories. They interact closely with neurons to regulate and retrieve memories, offering new insights into the complex nature of the brain.

Cypherpunks created blockchains as censorship-proof databases, but they're now used for memecoins, a form of low-finance gambling. Memecoins are the fundamental unit of blockchains, exploiting their anarchic nature to thrive in a space where traditional finance is restricted.

The user tracked the Hera ESA mission using the Allen Telescope Array and decoded its telemetry, publishing IQ recordings and a detailed analysis of the signal and modulation. The user used GNU Radio to decode the low-quality recordings and identified the spacecraft's modulation as PCM/PM/bi-phase-L with a baudrate of 60.2375 kbaud and 322.56 kbaud.

Birmingham City Council's Oracle Fusion rollout was labeled the "poorest ERP deployment" by UK government-appointed commissioners due to numerous failures and ballooning costs. The council aims to complete a reimplementation of Oracle in 2026 after appointing a senior responsible owner and program leader.

Women in the early 1900s used hatpins to defend themselves against harassers, earning them hero status. Cities eventually banned long hatpins, but women continued to resist, arguing for their right to self-defense and eventually, the right to vote.

The US public generally supports deploying the military to contain protests, with 60-75% approval, but military officers are strongly opposed, with 72% disapproval. The divide between public and military attitudes highlights the importance of military professional norms in preventing the militarization of domestic policing.

Gopher was a precursor to the World Wide Web, allowing users to access information on the internet through a menu system. It was initially popular but eventually lost to the web due to licensing costs and the rise of free web technologies.

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Economists debate the effectiveness of tariffs, with some arguing they helped build the US into an industrial power.

This study used Mendelian randomization analysis to investigate the causal relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia risk among current drinkers. The results showed a positive linear causal relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia risk, contradicting the widely reported J-shaped relationship.

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Australian scientists at Griffith University are conducting world-first trials using nerve cells from the nose to treat paralysis. The trial aims to help millions of people with spinal cord injuries regain function and feeling.

Fei-Fei Li created the ImageNet dataset, a massive collection of 14 million labeled images, which was initially met with skepticism but later proved essential for training neural networks to achieve unprecedented performance in image recognition. The success of the ImageNet dataset and the AlexNet model, which was trained on it, marked a turning point in the history of computer vision and AI, ...

Mark Shuttleworth discussed Ubuntu's success and missteps at Ubuntu Summit 2024. He regrets hesitating on partnerships and not prioritizing engineering rigor.

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