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User's PC is old and Chrome causes fan noise, but switching to Firefox solves the issue. Firefox offers similar features to Chrome, including sync, add-ons, and customization, but with additional features like Firefox View and Pocket.
MrBeast's success on YouTube is due to his obsessive focus on understanding the platform's metrics and adapting his content to maximize views, rather than creating authentic or meaningful content. His approach is a prime example of how the YouTube Apparatus shapes creators into "creations" that prioritize audience feedback over artistic vision.
A Google authentication flaw allows attackers to access old employee accounts by purchasing a failed startup's domain and using it to recreate email accounts. Millions of Americans' data and accounts remain vulnerable until Google implements a fix to add immutable identifiers to its OpenID Connect claims.
TSMC is testing initial chips from its Arizona fab to ensure quality meets Taiwan standards. If successful, Apple will be TSMC's first US customer, marking a significant step towards US silicon independence.
The author's daughter struggled to learn bike riding with the traditional method, but a new approach worked better. The new method involves removing pedals and teaching balance by running and coasting before adding pedaling.
Data scientists use vector embeddings to compare similarities, but cosine similarity can be misleading due to its simplicity and lack of nuance. A better approach is to use task-specific embeddings or preprocess text before embedding it to get more accurate results.
Job seekers face a tough market with 18-22% of online job postings being fake or unfilled. Companies may post these "ghost jobs" to appear active and meet quarterly goals.
A digital tool supports disaster recovery by organizing insurance claims, tracking expenses, and providing emotional support. It's based on a system used after the 2003 Cedar Fire and can be customized and expanded.
Two new features were added to ZFS: RAIDZ Expansion for increasing storage capacity without downtime and Direct IO for improving performance with NVMe devices.
The author, a former homeschooler, criticizes tech parents for viewing homeschooling as a high-status option, citing its historical association with academic freaks and religious extremists. They argue that homeschooling can isolate children from average people and hinder their social development.
A redesign of the Lemon and Palm intersection in Orange, California, prioritized moving cars quickly over pedestrian safety, making the area less walkable and more hazardous. The change, which saved drivers only a few seconds, is a common example of how US cities often value speed over safety and comfort for pedestrians.
The MUTCD outlines US street signs, including Civil Defense signs from the 1960s that advised driving fast through contaminated areas. These signs, now under Emergency Management, were prepared for nuclear war scenarios that never occurred.
PostgreSQL is DBMS of the Year for the second year in a row, winning for the fifth time overall. It outpaced 423 monitored systems, driven by continuous enhancements and a dependable platform.
The speaker, a former CTO, shares his journey of becoming a full-time "solopreneur" by building and selling software products online, and provides tips on how to start and succeed in this career path. He emphasizes the importance of creating space in one's life, building a minimum viable product, and being resilient in the face of uncertainty and failure.
rqlite uses a testing pyramid with unit tests as the foundation, integration tests in the middle, and end-to-end tests at the top. This approach ensures efficient, targeted, and easy-to-debug tests, maintaining high quality and reliability in the distributed relational database.
PostgreSQL Anonymizer is an extension that masks PII or sensitive data in Postgres databases using declarative rules defined in the database schema. It offers 5 masking methods and custom functions to ensure data confidentiality and GDPR compliance.
Meta plans to cut 5% of its workforce, around 3600 employees, focusing on lowest performers. Affected employees will be notified by Feb 10 and receive severance in line with previous cuts.
This blocklist removes low-quality websites from search results and aims to be organized with issue explanations for each blocked site. It's a subscription-based list that stays up to date and allows users to contribute by creating issues.
Marimo is a free online playground for creating and sharing WebAssembly notebooks, ideal for experimenting and prototyping. Notebooks can be saved, shared, and embedded in web pages with various customization options.
The user rewrote their website using plain HTML and CSS due to frustration with SvelteKit's bundler and building ecosystem. They achieved a simpler project tree and a 50% reduction in website size, but face challenges with code duplication and live reloading.
Scientists have found that plants absorb 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought, with 157 petagrams of carbon per year removed from the atmosphere via photosynthesis. This new estimate improves Earth system simulations and highlights the importance of natural carbon sequestration for greenhouse gas mitigation.
The Shepherd is a minimalist service manager that herds services, keeping track of their state and dependencies, and can start, stop, and restart them. It's extensible and comes with a high-level memory-safe language and concurrency framework.
Congestion pricing led to a 7.5% reduction in Manhattan drivers, with 43,000 fewer drivers on average entering the area below 60th Street each weekday. Traffic times decreased by 30-40% and bus speeds increased by up to 28% after the tolls were implemented.
Proton's 2024 charity fundraiser raised $1,077,470 for organizations fighting for privacy, freedom of expression, and human rights. The total charity contributions over seven years now exceed $4 million.
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Simplex builds tools for developers to control the web using natural language.
This research aims to evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) as Dungeon Masters in tabletop role-playing games, specifically Dungeons & Dragons, by developing an LLM-based agent and comparing its performance to human DMs. The study uses a dataset from the "Critical Role" series and fine-tunes the LLM with a structured narrative from the "Sunless Citadel" module to create an ...
Texas sued Allstate for allegedly using data from apps like GasBuddy and Life360 to track drivers and adjust insurance rates without consent. The lawsuit claims Allstate and its subsidiary Arity collected trillions of miles worth of location data from 45 million people.
The US President issues an order to develop and operate AI infrastructure in the US, promoting national security, economic competitiveness, and clean energy. The order sets guidelines for AI infrastructure development, including clean power, labor standards, and security measures.
Dragonflies perform a unique stunt where they dive into water, take off, and do loop-the-loops to cool down and dry off. This behavior helps prevent overheating, which can be lethal for the insects.
This is an open source version of the Campsite app, requiring S3, Pusher, Imgix, 100ms, and OpenAI for functionality. Setup involves creating accounts, setting up credentials, and configuring services like Overmind and Vercel for local development and deployment.
Employee engagement is at a 10-year low due to workers feeling stuck, forced back to the office, and disconnected from their company's mission. Gallup measures engagement through 12 metrics, including satisfaction, clear roles, and feeling valued, which have seen significant drops since the pandemic.
Tesla's EU registrations decreased by 15.2% year-to-date and 40.9% in November 2023 compared to the same period last year. Other automakers have filled the gap left by Tesla, with overall EU EV registrations only down 1.4% year-to-date.
James Harr's online store ComradeWorkwear was shut down after he announced a deck of "Most Wanted CEO" playing cards, which was seen as satirical and critical of corporate power. Social media platforms and financial services disabled Harr's accounts and stopped processing payments, highlighting issues with uneven content moderation and lack of transparency.
structured-logprobs is a Python library that enhances OpenAI's structured outputs with detailed token log probabilities. It provides insights into the reliability of LLM outputs and works with OpenAI's Structured Outputs feature.
At a Sikh gurdwara, everyone is welcome to share a meal called langar, which emphasizes equality and serving food to all without distinction. Langar is a volunteer effort where everyone contributes, and it's based on the teachings of Sikhism's founder, Guru Nanak, who believed in feeding the hungry.
Latency-based geolocation uses signal latency to infer a device's location, providing high poll integrity and detecting manipulation attempts. This method raises the cost of manipulation and can be used in conjunction with other mitigations to ensure reliable poll outcomes.
A guiding company is offering a $154,000 Everest climb using xenon gas, promising a one-week ascent. The gas boosts EPO production and red blood cells, allowing climbers to skip acclimatization.
dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs, a company that provides SQL comprehension technology, to enhance the dbt user experience. The acquisition will bring faster project compilation, improved developer experience, and higher-fidelity lineage to dbt users.
DoubleClickjacking is a new attack technique that bypasses clickjacking protections by exploiting the timing difference between mousedown and onclick events to swap UI elements during a double-click sequence. This technique can lead to account takeovers, OAuth authorization, and other high-privilege actions on websites and browser extensions, and can be mitigated by using a JavaScript-based ...
The complexity of sentences in written languages like English is a relatively recent development, likely influenced by the invention of writing and the need to convey complex ideas in a more deliberate and planned-out way. As languages evolve and communities change, the need for syntactic complexity may diminish, with some languages relying on dense words and others on systematic rules to ...
Elwood Edwards, known for his AOL voice, recorded custom messages for a user who ordered them through his website makinwavs.com. The user paid $30 for two custom messages and received a third free message.
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The author proposes a solution to the problem of evolving data definitions in a backwards compatible manner using set-theoretic types, which would allow libraries to change their public data definitions without breaking existing code. This solution, called revisioning, would enable the compiler and type system to guarantee correctness and preserve type safety, making it easier for library ...
The processor uses the TLB to translate linear addresses. If no match is found, it uses upper address bits to select an entry.
A transparent reaction cylinder is surrounded by hot mirrors to recycle waste heat, increasing efficiency. A 3D printed counterflow heat exchanger collects and preheats heat, reducing losses.
MIT astronomers observed a supermassive black hole, 1ES 1927+654, exhibiting unprecedented behavior with increasing X-ray flashes. They believe a spinning white dwarf, precariously close to the black hole's edge, is the likely source of the flashes.
The Clean Label Project tested 35,862 samples of protein powders for contaminants like lead, cadmium, and bisphenols, revealing significant contamination levels in some products. The project aims to promote transparency and safety in the market by awarding brands with the Clean Label Project Purity Award for products that meet strict purity standards.
A British judge ruled against James Howells, who sought to excavate a landfill for a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins. The judge found no realistic chance of success for Howells' claim and granted summary judgment for the defendant.
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Sliplane offers a pay-per-server model for hosting unlimited services at a single price, providing tools for maximum uptime and competitive rates. It supports Docker and direct deployment from GitHub or Docker Hub, requiring no DevOps knowledge.
Researchers found that some automatic braking systems failed to detect pedestrians wearing reflective strips, even in well-lit conditions. Governments should continue advising pedestrians to wear light-colored clothing and reflective material for increased visibility.
Norway leads the world in electric car adoption with 88.9% of new cars sold being EVs in 2024. The country's strong policies and incentives have made electric cars the norm, with a goal to phase out fossil fuel cars by 2025.
Explore the interactive heatmap of total compensation pay ranges across Europe, organized by countries and accompanied by a color-coded legend Click into a country and uncover insights on salary percentiles, breakdown of total compensation components, and top paying companies
Nyxelf is a tool for analyzing malicious Linux ELF binaries with static and dynamic analysis capabilities. It offers a GUI for unpacking, syscall tracing, and process/file activity monitoring in a controlled QEMU environment.
The install script changes network configuration and jump to the manual for details. Install the hyveOS SDK to start developing applications.
Japanese people are orderly due to primary school education emphasizing discipline and respect. This upbringing contributes to polite queuing and other social norms.
Summary of H.R.25 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
Software development has become bloated and trashy due to agile development and the pursuit of speed over quality. This results in software that feels good at first but eventually requires endless maintenance and human suffering.
Users experience frustration with AI coding assistants breaking codebases due to lack of understanding of project context and coding standards. Establishing clear project guidelines, using AI as a tool for auto-complete and explanation, and reviewing generated code can mitigate these issues.
A software industry wide strike for AI protections is unlikely to succeed due to tech's high cycle industry and lack of irreplaceable assets. Chaining major players with contracts is unlikely to protect the industry as a whole, given frequent firm collapses and new entrants.
US employee engagement fell to a decade low in 2024 with 31% of employees engaged, matching 2014 levels. Engagement declined by 2 percentage points since 2023, particularly among workers younger than 35.
Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. A new house in Pacific Palisades narrowly escaped a Los Angeles wildfire.
Blue Origin delayed the New Glenn rocket launch from Tuesday to Thursday due to technical issues and weather concerns. The launch is now set for 1-4 am ET on Thursday with a live webcast on the company's website.
Scientists developed a laser-based method to measure distances over 100km with precision of a human hair's width. This technique could improve space telescopes and is more precise than lab-based methods for longer distances.
You're looking for a device to normalize audio levels to prevent sudden loud noises and ensure consistent volume. A device like a dynamic range compressor or a volume normalizer can help, with options including commercial products like the Behringer Compressor or DIY solutions using audio processing software.
Two independent groups of researchers found 6 vulnerabilities in rsync, including a severe one that allows arbitrary code execution with anonymous read access. Upstream has prepared patches for these CVEs, which will be included in rsync 3.4.0.
In Singapore, a humanoid robot named Dexie leads exercise sessions for elderly residents with dementia, reducing loneliness and improving their mental well-being. The Singapore government is investing in AI tools to address the country's aging population and shortage of nurses, with projects like SoundKeepers aiming to detect early signs of depression among seniors.
Sweden has transitioned to a largely cashless economy, with over 80% of the population using the mobile payment app Swish. However, those who still rely on cash due to poverty face practical and emotional challenges, feeling left out and stigmatized in a society that values digital payments.
Meta is ending its fact-checking initiative and replacing it with a community notes feature, sparking backlash but potentially not having a significant impact on disinformation. Fact-checking has limitations in addressing disinformation, especially in complex situations, and may not change people's beliefs or behaviors.
The Bank of Mum and Dad provides financial support to many young people, often masking privilege and limiting social mobility. This phenomenon, known as inheritocracy, is driven by family wealth and has become a significant factor in determining opportunities in modern Britain.
Jeppson's Malört is a Swedish-style liqueur made with wormwood, known for its extremely bitter taste and infamous reputation. The brand was sold to CH Distillery in 2018 and has since gained popularity, with sales increasing from 0.4 million in 2007 to 7.9 million in 2022.
The Free Software Foundation Europe is preparing for FOSDEM and launching the fourth edition of Youth Hacking 4 Freedom. They are also working on the DMA implementation and participating in various events and studies.
Chapter 4 of A Super-friendly Guide to Finite Fields for Programmers covers emulating a GPU using a CPU with Congruences, Primes, and Number Theory. The chapter introduces Finite Field Assembly (FF-asm), a programming language that empowers programmers to create custom mathematical systems for problem-solving.
Alexander Nikiforov set fire to a newspaper on his terminal, filmed it, and was charged with terrorism. He claims he was instructed by telephone scammers, raising questions about his case and similar events targeting banks and police.
The author feels grateful to be Canadian due to the country's opportunities and beauty, but not patriotic as they didn't contribute to its creation.