Perplexity AI crawlers were found to be engaging in stealth crawling behavior, hiding their identity and evading website blocks. Cloudflare has de-listed Perplexity as a verified bot and added heuristics to block this behavior.
The user built a 1000-pixel display called Kilopixel that anyone can draw on, using a web interface and a physical controller with a custom CNC build and 3D modeling. The display uses a cubic wooden pixel mechanism and is controlled by an API that allows users to submit and vote on images, with the most popular submission being drawn next.
Job-seekers are rejecting AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture. HR teams are using AI to filter applicants and save time, but job-seekers see it as another hurdle in the job hunt.
Mastercard denied responsibility for removing NSFW games from Steam and Itch.io, stating it allows lawful purchases and requires merchants to have controls against unlawful content. The company's clarification suggests it may have indirectly influenced the removals through its rules and pressure on payment processors.
Qwen-Image is a 20B MMDiT image foundation model that excels in complex text rendering and precise image editing. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple public benchmarks and supports various languages and artistic styles.
Tesla withheld data and misled authorities in a wrongful death case involving Autopilot, hiding evidence that showed the system's performance around the crash. The company's actions were exposed through trial transcripts and forensic analysis, leading to a jury verdict assigning 33% of the blame to Tesla.
The user is frustrated with various smart devices making loud noises for non-essential notifications, such as a car beeping for low LPG, a washing machine beeping for every button press, and a baby phone beeping when turned on.
V8's JSON.stringify function has been optimized to be more than twice as fast, improving page interactions and application responsiveness. The optimization involves a new fast path that bypasses expensive checks and defensive logic for common types of JavaScript objects, resulting in a significant speedup.
The user's website DrawAFish.com was hacked due to a legacy admin password exposure and a lack of authentication in the username update API. The user learned a lesson about the importance of code reviews and security practices, and credited a helpful HackerNews user for saving the website from further damage.
User learned new approach to working with LLMs, starting with a plan.md doc and breaking it down into phases. This approach improved output quality and efficiency, a valuable lesson learned after initial trial and error.
Researchers combined 3D Gaussian Splatting with line drawing generation to create 3D line drawings. They swapped original images with line drawings in the 3D Gaussian Splatting process to achieve this.
Carbon is a platform for building end-to-end manufacturing systems with a monorepo that uses Docker for local development. To get started, clone the repo, install dependencies, and run scripts to set up the platform.
Palantir has expanded its work with the US government, partnering with companies like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte. The company has received over $113 million in federal spending and its revenue has grown by over $370 million compared to last year.
Camera manufacturers often change hardware in different batches without notice, requiring exact matching components for firmware support. A non-commercial project needs donations or volunteers to add unsupported camera models to its supported list.
US lowest-paid workers experience sharper slowdown in wage growth than richer peers, with 3.7% annual rate in June down from 7.5% in late 2022. This adds pressure on Donald Trump over inequality as he threatens to undermine US economic data reliability.
To build serious projects, developers should master vibe-coding, a dialogue-based process between humans and AI, and learn to approach AI coding tools the right way. This involves reading and understanding code, planning architecture, and reviewing AI-generated code to ensure security, quality, and mastery of the domain.
PHP, a scripting language released in 1995, has become a widely used language despite its initial design flaws and security issues, and has seen major revamps in recent years. The language has a thriving community and a new runtime called FrankenPHP, which simplifies container creation and offers new execution models, potentially propelling PHP into a new orbit.
Content-aware memory models in spaced repetition systems can account for the semantic meaning of cards, not just review ratings, and make it practical to build intelligent learning tools. These models can be used to create diverse schedulers, each optimized for different goals and user experiences, and can unlock UX opportunities such as conversational spaced repetition and dynamically ...
The user is customizing their tmux terminal multiplexer with a new configuration file .tmux.conf to improve its functionality and appearance, including changing key bindings and enabling features like mouse support and Vim key bindings. They also installed tmux plugin manager to explore community-maintained plugins and customize their tmux experience further.
The article discusses how AI tools have created an illusion of efficiency, making systems work harder, not smarter, and shifting mental energy from creative work to quality control. This shift is exhausting and can lead to burnout, as people are pressured to constantly optimize and adopt new tools.
Where Projects are Evaluated To see if they're as free and open source as advertised The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth. This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
NASA's Curiosity rover has been upgraded with more autonomy and multitasking capabilities to maximize its energy source. The rover can now perform multiple tasks at once, reducing energy usage and extending its lifespan for further Martian exploration.
Passkeys are randomly generated passwords managed by password managers, providing anti-phishing protection and extra authentication factors. They can be difficult to reset and transfer between managers, but multiple passkeys per site can mitigate this issue.
The author reflects on lost friendships from her past, feeling lonely and isolated in her 20s, and decides to investigate why these friendships ended. Through conversations with her former friends, she gains a new understanding of their perspectives and comes to terms with the complexities of friendship and human connection.
The author reflects on an interview experience where they were asked about mixing C and Rust memory allocators, prompting them to explore the fundamentals of memory management. They built a testing framework to understand allocator interactions, discovering issues like silent corruption, metadata clashes, and performance penalties due to cache effects.
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Tsunami stones along Japan's coast warn locals to seek high ground after earthquakes, as seen in the 10-foot-tall stone tablet in Aneyoshi village. Many residents heeded these warnings, but others forgot or disregarded them, leading to devastating consequences.
Wayland's XDG Activation prevents focus stealing by requiring apps to request a unique token from the compositor. KWin will enforce this properly with a new "Extreme" setting for focus prevention.
The user discusses the need for programming languages to adapt to the changing landscape of heterogeneous hardware and proposes an ideal array language that can represent dynamic shape information, leave space for compiler optimizations, and provide user-facing optimization reports and hints. The user also explores the benefits of functional, unbufferized array programming and the importance ...
Finnish is often considered a difficult language due to its unique vocabulary and grammar, but it has a rich history of borrowing words from other languages, including Germanic languages, which makes it more accessible to English speakers. By understanding the historical connections between Finnish and other languages, we can break down the barriers between them and see that Finnish is not as ...
Debouncing discards close operations and consolidates them into one invocation after a specific interval. It's used for user input, like typing, to avoid UI lag and process input only after a pause.
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object, has displayed anomalous characteristics and approaches close to Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. Its low retrograde tilt and perihelion alignment with the Sun could enable a clandestine reverse Solar Oberth manoeuvre, allowing it to intercept Earth or Jupiter.
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Authors thank Jean Twenge and Carol Graham for comments and express views not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Research supported by Alfred P. Sloan and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations grants.
Parents can help kids build resilience and empathy by teaching them to handle setbacks with confidence and grace. Simple solo activities can be done with kids to promote learning and bonding.
Doctors are increasingly frustrated with electronic medical records, feeling they've lost control over their work and are spending too much time on computers. A system that promised to increase efficiency has instead led to burnout, with many doctors seeking solutions like medical scribes to help them cope.
Researchers developed a photonic spiking neural network chip that achieves brain-inspired computing on a silicon platform, resolving long-standing challenges in data integration and energy-efficient processing. The chip enables 80% accuracy on video recognition and 100x faster processing speeds than conventional approaches.
Introducing yue (), a family of open foundation models based on the llama2 architecture. the model encodes the rich diversity of world music styles, preserving cultural heritage within its weights. our model can be used to generate music from the given lyrics segment by segment. we currently provide demos in english, chinese (mandarin and cantonese), japannese and korean. - our models are ...
We will study anti-aliasing for Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) together. Anti-aliasing is achieved by transitioning smoothly towards or away from the shape, following the SDF's gradient of length 1.
Researchers in Glasgow have developed a mechanism to transport light through a human head, enabling deeper brain imaging. This breakthrough could lead to cheaper, more accessible brain imaging technology for conditions like cognitive decline and strokes.
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Microsoft's $4 trillion valuation is driven by robust cloud and AI growth, but the company has laid off 25,000 employees this year, including 9,100 in July. The layoffs are part of a broader industry trend, with companies like IBM, Meta, and Amazon also cutting staff to invest in AI.
The user is setting up a homelab with a Proxmox Virtual Environment on a mini PC, aiming to automate as much as possible and use it to learn Kubernetes. They have successfully deployed a Proxmox hypervisor on a Debian host with an encrypted disk, and created an Ansible playbook to automate the process, including setting up a bridged network and installing Proxmox.
Bill Yeager, a Stanford researcher, developed the first Internet router system in the early 1980s, which later became the basis for Cisco Systems. Yeager's work was overlooked in favor of Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who commercialized the technology and became famous, but Yeager received only 15% of the royalty distribution.
Type theory is a foundational theory in mathematics that is closer to how working mathematicians think, but it has a smaller presence on MSE/MO due to its historical coincidence and the fact that most mathematicians have training in set theory. Type theory is a constructive setting for doing mathematics that allows careful dealing with computability and decidability, but it has no canonical ...
To install Sidequest.js, follow the Installation Guide and install the SQLite backend driver. Create a Job class and configure the Sidequest engine to start processing jobs.
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A reviewer tested the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, a $3,300 laptop with a rollable 14-inch to 16.7-inch OLED screen. The laptop is useful for multitasking and has good performance, but it's heavy and has some quirks.
Gareth edwards tells the story of how compaq challenged ibm's dominance in the 1980s. canion, harris, and murto created a portable ibm pc clone based on the microchannel coding inherited from the late ronald reagan, who died in 1993. if ibm had won, we might be living in very different technological landscape, says kate l. lewis.
The platform offers interactive financial lessons and tools for students and educators, covering budgeting and investment strategies. It provides flexible pricing and accessible resources for lifelong financial success.
There are 2,640 billionaires worldwide, with 735 in the US, each having at least one billion dollars in assets. One billion dollars can buy the yearly budget of St. Louis, Missouri, or fund a small city for a year.
US military-run casinos on bases abroad generate millions in revenue, but some veterans struggle with gambling disorders due to lack of education and treatment. Advocates suggest dedicating a portion of the revenue to prevention, education, and treatment programs to support struggling service members.
The code is a TypeScript type definition with a property named 'some' of type 'ts' and 'type' literal. It's asking if you want to wait for parsing code evaluation during tsc compilation.
Developers are trading code for visual workflow tools, which create dependency webs and give power to those who don't understand the underlying logic. This is due to laziness, imposter syndrome, and a desire for ease over power.
Q is a minimal, dependency-free programming language with ultra-fast builds and tiny binaries. Its compiler focuses on correctness and proper code generation for various architectures and operating systems.
With postgres 12, it became possible to swap out the storage engine. there is clearly overlap between orioledb and citus columnar - but they don't seem to be integrated well together yet. one thing it gave me to try was calling execstorevirtualtuple on the slot. this also means we need to keep track of which row we're on. if you want to use a different extension, you can
Israeli soldiers were detained and questioned in Belgium over alleged war crimes in Gaza, marking a potential turning point in international justice. The incident may set a precedent for similar legal actions in Europe, increasing diplomatic concerns for Israel.
AWS is launching a sovereign cloud in Europe, operated by EU citizens with no non-EU dependencies. This €7.8 billion investment will provide customers with an autonomous cloud, meeting Europe's digital sovereignty needs by 2025.
NOTICE (2/4/25): There have been several changes to the Stone Wall Mapper including updated LiDAR hillshade data in the southeast region of the state as well as the addition of 6-inch, statewide orthophotography. Users may also notice other minor changes to the map and widgets. Thank you. This is the New Hampshire Stone Wall Mapper, an interface based on LiDAR visualizations of the NH ...
Kart also supports non-geospatial flat data tables — stored alone or in repositories with vector geospatial data. Accurately synchronize datasets between systems in seconds. Kart moves and applies a minimal compressed set of changes.
Mozilla warns devs to be cautious of phishing emails pretending to be from Mozilla or AMO. Malicious crypto extensions are being uploaded, stealing wallet credentials and seed phrases.
Ancestry within great britain was captured by conduct-ing a principal component analysis on genome-wide com-mon snps. the largest differences were between people born in coal mining areas who moved away and those who remained in the coal mines. an rgwas is expected to detect genetic signal if regional mea-sure is correlated with systematic regional differences in geographi-cally clustered alleles that
ScreenCoder is an intelligent UI-to-code system that transforms screenshots into clean HTML/CSS code using a modular multi-agent architecture. It supports customized modifications and bridges the gap between design and development.
Scientists claim that lightning is caused by a chain reaction of electrons seeded by cosmic rays from outer space. A new study used computer models to explain how lightning initiates, revealing a powerful chain reaction that begins in outer space.
The article "Circadian justice" analyzes how sleep patterns in modern societies generate social and political inequalities. It argues for a wide-ranging approach to address these inequalities by recognizing the impact of sleep norms on modern life.
Daksh, co-founder of Greptile, an AI code reviewer, draws parallels between Enron's accounting scandal and the potential risks of AI code generators, emphasizing the need for independent review tools to prevent biased scrutiny. Greptile's focus on reviewing code without generating it ensures unbiased feedback, unlike AI code generators that may produce biased code and require separate review tools.
Fine-tuning small models on high-quality outputs from large models can reduce inference costs by up to 30x and inference time by up to 4x. This approach can achieve competitive performance across various applications while minimizing costs.
A long-lost Hungarian painting, Sleeping Lady with Black Vase by Róbert Berény, was discovered in a Hollywood film and is now up for auction in Budapest. The painting, lost for nine decades, will be sold on December 13 with a starting price of around €110,000.
Workleap optimized their SDLC using .NET coding standards NuGet package to enforce code style, quality, and performance standards at scale. This resulted in reduced code review time, improved code quality, and uniformity across projects.
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FFlags is used for feature flag management with OpenFeature for no vendor lock-in, leveraging @ctushr's Edge Network for blazing fast responses and a huge free tier. It offers reasonable usage-based pricing with no limits on flags or users.
A modern Hopfield network with continuous states can store and retrieve patterns with low retrieval errors and has three types of energy minima. It can be integrated into deep learning architectures as layers for pooling, memory, association, and attention mechanisms.
You initially switched to NixOS from Arch but found it too costly to learn and use. After a year of experimenting, you found that NixOS added too much complexity and abstraction, making it slower and more frustrating to use.
You're looking for a reliable task management software, specifically a Pivotal Tracker replacement, but have found most alternatives to be buggy or untrustworthy. You're willing to pay for a good solution but so far, none have met your expectations.
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A driver on a mountain road wonders about the average length of queues formed by cars with different speeds. The average length of queues is found to be infinity, with the probability of a queue of n cars being 1/n(n+1).
Semg decoder enables direct intentional motor signal detection from the muscle. a majority of participants subjectively reported that the cursor moved in the intended direction >80% of the time, says daniel taylor, co-authors of this paper - based on human trials involving thousands of consenting human participants. the resulting models were able to infer when the participant performs ...
The author compares software development to evolution, arguing that two strategies exist: "koala" software, which is simple and efficient, and "crow" software, which is complex and adaptable. The choice between these strategies depends on the complexity of the most common use case, and niches can change as the ecosystem evolves.
Researchers developed Splatshop, a toolbox for editing 3D Gaussian Splatting models in real-time. Splatshop enables precise editing of large-scale models up to 100 million primitives for VR applications.
A Democratic fundraising model, "churn and burn," raises $678 million but only delivers $11 million to candidates, with 98% going to consultants and operational costs. This system is a financial vortex that deceives donors and damages trust, and the Democratic Party should shut it down.
Scientists recreated the first molecule, helium hydride, in a lab and found it played a crucial role in cooling the universe for star formation. This discovery could rewrite the story of the cosmos' evolution from darkness to light.
Lars from Underjord is experimenting with running 192-core Ampere One server with Elixir and Nerves, aiming to run thousands of virtual Linux devices. He's making progress with qemu and KVM, but still faces challenges and hopes to reach 7000 devices with 1 TB of RAM.
A user wrote about their 1981 game ARCTIC ADVENTURE, a text adventure game they created in Level II BASIC for the Radio Shack TRS-80. The game was later remastered and made playable in a web browser.
Krea's FLUX.1-Krea model avoids the "AI Look" by focusing on aesthetics, not just correctness. It generates more natural, subjective images by optimizing for specific styles and tastes.
Researchers at Levro developed a new technique called token-level reward attribution to improve reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) tackling complex tasks. This technique provides precise feedback on specific parts of an output, enabling LLMs to learn with unprecedented precision and leading to more efficient training, higher quality outputs, and models that genuinely ...
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Wayland requires applications to request activation tokens to bring windows to the front, ensuring genuine user interaction. Applications must use XDG Activation protocol and provide valid tokens to avoid focus stealing prevention in KWin.
A 3D-printing process called binder jetted steel with bronze infiltration has been discontinued due to lack of demand and expertise. The process's parent company, Desktop Metal, filed for bankruptcy after a failed acquisition attempt.
Speedhunters, a car photography site, shut down quietly in April after 18 years of operation. The site's demise was due to a combination of factors, including a lack of evolution and a dysfunctional relationship with its parent company, Electronic Arts.
Chrome 133 introduces popover="hint" to keep unrelated popovers open. Interest invokers, an experimental API, enable dual-action links with hover/focus popovers without JavaScript.
Disney's Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) revolutionized animation by allowing artists to work digitally, but its early history was marked by secrecy and struggles. CAPS eventually became a powerful tool that enabled Disney to create complex shots and effects, but its development was shrouded in secrecy and it wasn't until years later that the team received recognition for their work.
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A desperate job seeker made a pact with a demon to wear his face and apply for jobs on his behalf, but after finding a job the usual way, he burned the contract and felt relieved. However, he soon received emails from companies rejecting applications made by the demon in his name, and he was unable to find the demon to stop it, leaving him with the shame of his past actions.
Researchers from Duke, Harvard, and Otago universities developed DunedinPACNI, a tool that estimates aging rate using a single MRI scan of the brain. It forecasts risks for dementia, chronic disease, and death in older adulthood by analyzing brain structure and aging-related health trajectories.
To wake up your computer from anywhere in the world, you need to enable Wake-on-LAN in BIOS/UEFI and your operating system, and then set up your router to forward the magic packet to your device. You can use a cloud function or a web-based service like Depicus to send the magic packet, but hosting your own Wake-on-LAN service in the cloud gives you full control over how your PC is woken up.
Bioregenerative life support and food production could revolutionize sustainability. some organisms have ability to create cement, using minerals found on mars and the moon21. the gut microbiota is essential for preserving human health, says dr. sanjay gupte-bhagwati. microorganisms could be used for the production of hydrogen-rich organic composite materials that can help mitigate the space ...