Show HN: I made a tool for curating and sharing links as lists
Curate, share and never forget your favorite linksSave sites, recipes, inspiration—whatever you want, just save it and snack later.Share lists with friendsSee which links are trendingHow it worksEvery feature you need for seamless list creationChoose the emoji, title, and description for your listType or paste any link, and rearrange them in any orderAdd to your lists over time and share it anywhere onlineInternet ShareablesEvery feature you need for seamless list creationUse CasesPerfect for any creative scenarioFor DesignersDesign inspiration, portfolios, etc.For...
about 2 hours ago
A Report from the 2024 Image-Based Linux Summit
The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! The Image-Based Linux Summit has by now established itself as a yearly event. Following on from last year's edition, the third edition was held in Berlin on September 24, the day before All Systems Go! 2024...
about 2 hours ago
Elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns
(CNN) — The 80-year-old communications engineer from Texas had saved for decades, driving around in an old car and buying clothes from thrift stores so he’d have enough money to enjoy his retirement years. But as dementia robbed him of his reasoning abilities, he began making online political donations over and over again — eventually telling his son he believed he was part of a network of political operatives communicating with key Republican leaders. In less than two years, the...
about 2 hours ago
StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5
(Image credit: StabilityAI) StabilityAI is today releasing its new Stable Diffusion 3.5 family of AI image models. It comes with improved realism, prompt adherence and text rendering compared to SD3.Like the first incarnation of SD3, Stable Diffusion 3.5 comes in three sizes — Large (8B), Large Turbo (8B), and Medium (2.6B). These are all customizable and tuned to run on consumer hardware, while also being available to use under the Stability AI Community License.In short, this is a big step...
about 2 hours ago
IBM's new SWE agents for developers
IBM SWE-Agent 1.0 from IBM Research is the first set of software engineering (SWE) agents of its kind powered by open LLMs that can autonomously resolve GitHub issues efficiently.For most software developers, every day starts with where the last one left off. Trawling through the backlog of issues on GitHub you didn’t deal with the day before, you're triaging which ones you can fix quickly, which will take more time, and which ones you really don’t know what to do...
about 3 hours ago
Show HN: I built a tool that helps people scan and clean any repo for secrets
Scan your codebase, logs, build environments, repos, and CI pipelines for leaked secrets and API tokens.
about 4 hours ago
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)
meshaphoto / Getty / Konstantin Orlov / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The Atlantic“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at...
about 4 hours ago
RunwayML releases Act One: obsoleting traditional motion capture
At Runway, our mission is to build expressive and controllable tools for artists that can open new avenues for creative expression. Today, we're excited to release Act-One, a new state-of-the-art tool for generating expressive character performances inside Gen-3 Alpha. Act-One can create compelling animations using video and voice performances as inputs. It represents a significant step forward in using generative models for expressive live action and animated content. Animating a generated character using nothing more than a simple video of...
about 4 hours ago
Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)
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about 5 hours ago
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But performing the algorithm manually is a good way to understand exactly how it works. A pencil-and-paper round of SHA-256 The mining process Bitcoin mining is a key...
about 5 hours ago
USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas
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about 5 hours ago
Requiem for Raghavan
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist." An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn't mean anything. The most notorious example of this is when AOL employed "Shingy," a Digital Prophet, and if you have any information about what he did at AOL, please email me at ed@ezpr.com immediately.Anyway, back to Prabhakar. Although ostensibly less...
about 6 hours ago
Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game
Competitive multiplayer FPS game where two football fan teams fight with the goal of winning more rounds than the opponent team. Teams are Attackers and Defenders. The Defenders team has a goal of protecting their fan base sanctuary every round from desecrating by attackers using their graffiti bomb ball. Defenders win round by: eliminated all attackers players before bomb planted (touchdown) defusing bomb before it blows (graffiti fireworks) at least one player survive round time and no bomb is planted...
about 6 hours ago
The PlanetScale vectors public beta
Skip to contentYou can now use the vector data type for vector search and storage in your PlanetScale MySQL database.We're excited to announce that PlanetScale vector search and storage is now available in open beta! With PlanetScale vector support, you can store your vector data alongside your application's relational MySQL data — eliminating the need for a separate specialized vector database.What sets PlanetScale vector search and storage apart?When we decided to add vector support to PlanetScale's MySQL fork, we knew...
about 6 hours ago
The Human Cost of Our AI-Driven Future
A blurred screen flashes before our eyes, accompanied by a deceptively innocuous “sensitive content” message with a crossed-out eye emoji. The warning’s soft design and playful icon belie the gravity of what lies beneath. With a casual flick of our fingers, we scroll past, our feeds refreshing with cat videos and vacation photos. But in the shadows of our digital utopia, a different reality unfolds.In cramped, poorly lit warehouses around the world, an army of invisible workers hunches over flickering...
about 7 hours ago
Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Today, we’re announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet delivers across-the-board improvements over its predecessor, with particularly significant gains in coding—an area where it already led the field. Claude 3.5 Haiku matches the performance of Claude 3 Opus, our prior largest model, on many evaluations for the same cost and similar speed to the previous generation of Haiku.We’re also introducing a groundbreaking new capability in public beta: computer use....
about 7 hours ago
We built a new powerful JSON data type for ClickHouse
JSON has become the lingua franca for handling semi-structured and unstructured data in modern data systems. Whether it’s in logging and observability scenarios, real-time data streaming, mobile app storage, or machine learning pipelines, JSON’s flexible structure makes it the go-to format for capturing and transmitting data across distributed systems. At ClickHouse, we’ve long recognized the importance of seamless JSON support. But as simple as JSON seems, leveraging it effectively at scale presents unique challenges, which we briefly describe below. ClickHouse...
about 8 hours ago
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
Josh Aas, Joe Birr-Pixton, and Daniel McCarneyOct 22, 2024ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.Back in January of this year we published a post about the start of our performance journey. We've come a long way since then and we're excited to share an update on Rustls performance today.What is Rustls?Rustls is a memory safe...
about 9 hours ago
World-First Starlink Service on Boeing 777 Launched by Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways has just made aviation history by launching the world's first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 flight. This groundbreaking development promises to revolutionize how we stay connected at 35,000 feet. Let's dive into what this means for travellers! The Big News Qatar Airways operated its first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 flight from Doha to London on October 22, 2024, marking several industry firsts: World's first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 widebody First Starlink implementation in the MENA region Largest passenger aircraft equipped with Starlink...
about 9 hours ago
Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming
After nearly two years of development and private beta testing1, I’m excited to share that Ghostty 1.0 will be publicly released in December 2024 as an open-source project under the MIT license. In this blog post, I want to restate the broader goals of the Ghostty project and outline the specific goals for the 1.0 release. I have ambitious plans for Ghostty, but I also want to set clear expectations for what to expect on day one versus what will...
about 9 hours ago
Malcolm Gladwell Holds His Ideas Loosely. He Thinks You Should, Too
Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author, has an office on a quiet street in Hudson, N.Y., where he sits at a desk under a poster of Mao Zedong, the former communist leader of China. Why? Maybe to signal how ideas can be dangerous? Nope, no particular reason. There are two other Chinese communist posters on the wall, too. “I found them online for like $10,” said Mr. Gladwell, 61. “I just think it’s funny.”Mr. Gladwell, who has spent his career steeped...
about 10 hours ago
Show HN: AI Image Upscaler and Photo Enhancer with up to 10x resolution boost
imageUpscaler.io: Where AI Meets Image PerfectionUpscale Your Image NowTired of blurry or grainy photos? Our app uses the latest AI technology to sharpen and improve the quality of your images. Get professional-looking photos with just a few clicks.Want to print your photos in a larger size without them looking fuzzy? Our resolution booster can increase the pixel count while keeping your images clear and crisp. Works great for social media, websites, and more.How it worksUpscale your images with AI in...
about 10 hours ago
Against /tmp
I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems. I guess that’s some kind of success, but sadly the fixes have left behind a lot of scar tissue because they didn’t address the underlying problem: /tmp should not...
about 10 hours ago
Tog's Paradox
Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s Complexity Paradox) is an observation that products aiming to make a task more efficient tend to inspire new, more complex use cases. It’s one of the key reasons for the symptom of requirements changing after delivery in enterprise software products, and for feature creep in consumer products. Tog’s Paradox also explains why it’s futile to try to completely nail down requirements for a software product, as the product itself will...
about 10 hours ago
MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring Software Engineers and Ex-Founders Globally
Work should be fun. At MixRank, we get to work with distributed systems, databases, data science, and big data. No meetings, no bureaucracy, no office, no time tracking— just challenging problems you can devote your full attention to.MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe, across industries including Finance, Recruiting, Sales, Marketing, and Security. The company was founded in 2011 and received...
about 10 hours ago
Colorful cars are becoming a thing of the past
It feels like a distant memory, but once upon a time America's carmakers produced vehicles in a veritable rainbow of colors. As recently as 2005, more than half of all automobiles on the road were painted a color other than black, white, silver, or gray. Some of the tints even sported names straight out of a Hot Wheels collection: Tangerine Scream, Go Green, Plum Crazy. Explore the United States of Automobiles• See where in America your vehicle is most popular•...
about 11 hours ago
The Journal of Open Source Software
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about 11 hours ago
Mercedes-Benz battery recycling plant recovers '96%' of materials
Mercedes-Benz just opened Europe’s first battery recycling plant using an innovative process that the automaker says enables recycling rate to more than 96%, all in-house and ready to be used in future Mercedes EVs. Opening in Kuppenheim, in southern Germany, the plant uses an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process that can also process the so-called black mass, which Mercedes says makes it the first carmaker to close the battery recycling loop with its own in-house facility. The plant, which has been testing...
about 12 hours ago
MQTT turns 25
It’s October 2024 and I’m sitting here in my creative maker studio, wearing a bright t-shirt that excitedly bellows “MQTT 25”! To my left is a top-end Bambu Lab X1C 3D printer, that uses MQTT internally for communication. On my wall are a variety of connected gadgets that display data or that light up in response to MQTT notifications. Node-RED is sitting quietly on a Raspberry Pi in the corner, processing MQTT messages as they come and go. Today is...
about 12 hours ago
Undecided Hobbit Torn Between Dark Lord of Chaos and Elf Queen He Barely Knows
I’m a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind. For some, the choice is clear, but for a little guy like me, I’m feeling awfully torn up, like a tear-and-share cheese bread during Winter Solstice! I simply can’t seem to decide between the Dark Lord determined to return to power and stay there until shadows drown all of Arda, or the Elf Galadriel, who seems to...
about 13 hours ago
RISC-V Announces Ratification of the RVA23 Profile
Vector and Hypervisor extensions are key mandatory components of the RVA23 Profile, addressing math-intensive workloads including AI/ML & cryptography, and enterprise hardware, operating systems and software workloads Santa Clara, Calif. – Oct. 21, 2024 – RISC-V International, the global standards organization, today announced that the RVA23 Profile is now ratified. RVA Profiles align implementations of RISC-V 64-bit application processors that will run rich operating systems (OS) stacks from standard binary OS distributions. RVA Profiles are essential to software portability across...
about 13 hours ago
Don't Publish with IEEE
D. J. Bernstein Notes on writing papers Before you read this page, you should understand (1) authors putting papers online to benefit readers, (2) commercial publishers using copyright to limit #1, and (3) authors dedicating papers to the public domain as one way to stop #2. I have a separate page discussing these issues. It turns out that, in response to #3, IEEE is overriding its scientific referees and flat-out refusing to accept public-domain papers. I learned about this from...
about 13 hours ago
A Lisp compiler to ARM written in Lisp
21st August 2024 This is a simple experimental Lisp compiler, written in uLisp, that will compile a Lisp function into ARM machine code. My aim was to make the compiler simple enough so that its listing will fit on a single sheet of A4 paper. Updates 21st August 2024: This article describes Version 2 of the compiler which has the following improvements over the original, while keeping the size of the program unchanged: It compiles expressions to leave the result...
about 14 hours ago
Grok TiddlyWiki 2.0 is live
Showcase Hi everyone, I’m happy to announce that major revisions to my Grok TiddlyWiki learning resource are done, on schedule and under budget. Changes These revisions bring GTW up to date with many of the newest features in TiddlyWiki: procedures, functions, <% conditional expressions %>, custom widgets, parameterized field transclusions, and so on. Macros and similar older ways to achieve the same things are de-emphasized but still discussed. I’ve also read through the entire book and gotten a fresh set...
about 14 hours ago
One Plus One Equals Two (2006)
1+1=2 Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica is famous for taking a thousand pages to prove that 1+1=2. Of course, it proves a lot of other stuff, too. If they had wanted to prove only that 1+1=2, it would probably have taken only half as much space. Principia Mathematica is an odd book, worth looking into from a historical point of view as well as a mathematical one. It was written around 1910, and mathematical logic was still then in its...
about 14 hours ago
Understanding Gaussians
The Gaussian distribution, or normal distribution is a key subject in statistics, machine learning, physics, and pretty much any other field that deals with data and probability. It’s one of those subjects, like $\pi$ or Bayes’ rule, that is so fundamental that people treat it like an icon. To start at the beginning: the normal distribution is a probability distribution: a mathematical object that describes a process by which you can sample data. Here is an example. If I measure...
about 15 hours ago
Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia
The Energy Market Authority (EMA) has granted Sun Cable Conditional Approval to supply electricity from Australia to Singapore via subsea cables spanning over 4,300 km. Approval was granted to import 1.75 gigawatts (GW) of low-carbon electricity from Northern Australia into Singapore, announced Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng on Oct. 22 at the Asia Clean Energy Summit during the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) 2024. This will account for approximately nine per cent of Singapore's total electricity...
about 15 hours ago
Tesla delays Cybertruck's range extender, reduces its range
Tesla has further delayed production of Cybertruck’s range extender and reduced the range that it will add to the electric pickup truck. When Tesla unveiled the production version of the Cybertruck last year, there were two main disappointments: the price and the range. Tesla has missed on pricing with new vehicle programs before, and inflation has been exceptionally high in the few years between the original unveiling and pricing of the Cybertruck in 2019 and its start of production last...
about 16 hours ago
Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:This report examines the fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating theoretical insights with practical applications. It outlines the historical evolution of LLMs from traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP) models to their pivotal role in AI. A comparison of fine-tuning methodologies, including supervised, unsupervised, and instruction-based approaches, highlights their applicability to different tasks. The report introduces a structured seven-stage pipeline for fine-tuning LLMs, spanning data preparation, model initialization, hyperparameter tuning, and model...
about 18 hours ago
Brazil Arrests 'USDoD' Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach
Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “USDoD,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached. The Brazilian news...
about 18 hours ago
Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox
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about 18 hours ago
A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending
Horowitz remembers the Merwin transaction as a vital moment in his growth, but Merwin and his wife always believed, without any proof, that Horowitz had cherry-picked his library for his own benefit. A leading appraiser told me that Merwin repeatedly complained that Horowitz had shorted him on the payment for his archive. (Horowitz denied this, and said that he had bought at least fifty of Merwin’s books without incident.) Twenty years after the sale, M. G. Lord, who by then...
about 19 hours ago
Good money, no team tactics and cute dogs: the rise of pro cycling freelancers
For decades, professional cycling has been dominated by European World Tour teams. But in the last decade, American gravel privateers have disrupted that paradigm.“The World Tour is like being in the NFL or NBA,” says Peter Stetina, who rode for three different teams on the tour, the highest tier of professional road cycling, from 2010 to 2019. “You get drafted and signed. You have a salary and your job is just to pedal, nothing else. Racing is cutthroat, resigning is...
about 20 hours ago
How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide
No trespassing allowedSo, your $5 VPS just arrived. All you've got is an IP address, a username, and a password. Now what?In this guide, I'll walk you through fortifying your VPS from zero to hero—covering essential security measures and then going beyond the basics to create a secure environment. We'll tackle everything from user management and SSH configuration to setting up a firewall and implementing a couple handy automations to keep your server in top shape.Note: This guide is tailored...
about 22 hours ago
Study offers clues into when and why mosquitoes bite
As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their victims in the first place. But while scientists have uncovered the ways that odor and heat help mosquitoes find humans, little is known about the role of taste once they’ve landed. In a new study, Yale researchers have now shown how different tastes are encoded by neurons in mosquitoes and...
about 22 hours ago
LTESniffer: An Open-Source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper
LTESniffer is An Open-source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper It first decodes the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) to obtain the Downlink Control Informations (DCIs) and Radio Network Temporary Identifiers (RNTIs) of all active users. Using decoded DCIs and RNTIs, LTESniffer further decodes the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) and Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) to retrieve uplink and downlink data traffic. LTESniffer supports an API with three functions for security applications and research. Many LTE security research assumes a passive sniffer...
about 22 hours ago
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Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features
Apple announced a trio of major new hearing health features for the AirPods Pro 2 in September, including clinical-grade hearing aid functionality, a hearing test, and more robust hearing protection. All three will roll out next week with the release of iOS 18.1, and they could mark a watershed moment for hearing health awareness. Apple is about to instantly turn the world’s most popular earbuds into an over-the-counter hearing aid.That also means we’re about to enter an era where we’ll...
about 22 hours ago
Wired's Attack on Privacy
The Wired article by David Gilbert focusing on neo-Nazis moving to SimpleX Chat following the Telegram's changes in privacy policy is biased and misleading. By cherry-picking information from the report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), Wired fails to mention that SimpleX network design prioritizes privacy in order to protect human rights defenders, journalists, and everyday users who value their privacy — many people feel safer using SimpleX than non-private apps, being protected from strangers contacting them. Yes, privacy-focused...
about 22 hours ago
Transformers Utilization in Chart Understanding: A Review of Advances and Future
Skip to main content View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In recent years, interest in vision-language tasks has grown, especially those involving chart interactions. These tasks are inherently multimodal, requiring models to process chart images, accompanying text, underlying data tables, and often user queries. Traditionally, Chart Understanding (CU) relied on heuristics and rule-based systems. However, recent advancements that have integrated transformer architectures significantly improved performance. This paper reviews prominent research in CU, focusing on State-of-The-Art (SoTA) frameworks that employ transformers within End-to-End...
about 22 hours ago
Learning to Learn
In the past 3 years, I’ve run over 300 interviews. On average, I meet someone new every 3-4 days to understand if they’re the right fit for an early-stage startup. I especially like capping interviews with an open-ended question that really lets great candidates shine. One of my favorite now-retired questions is, in Thielian fashion: “What’s something you’ve learned that you believe gives you an edge - something that you’re almost surprised more people don’t know about?” One of the...
about 22 hours ago
Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
One afternoon in January 2011, Hussein Mourtada leapt onto his desk and started dancing. He wasn’t alone: Some of the graduate students who shared his Paris office were there, too. But he didn’t care. The mathematician realized that he could finally confirm a sneaking suspicion he’d first had while writing his doctoral dissertation, which he’d finished a few months earlier. He’d been studying special points, called singularities, where curves cross themselves or come to sharp turns. Now he had unexpectedly...
about 23 hours ago
Baidu CEO: AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players
Asia In Brief Baidu CEO Robin Li has proclaimed that hallucinations produced by large language models are no longer a problem, and predicted a massive wipeout of AI startups when the "bubble" bursts. "The most significant change we're seeing over the past 18 to 20 months is the accuracy of those answers from the large language models," gushed the CEO at last week's Harvard Business Review Future of Business Conference. "I think over the past 18 months, that problem has...
about 23 hours ago
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Disney Plus and Hulu won't let you sign up through Apple anymore
If you want to subscribe to Disney Plus or Hulu on your iPhone, you can’t do that anymore. Support documents for Disney Plus and Hulu now say that new and returning subscribers to those streaming services can’t sign up through Apple, as reported by MacRumors.I’m not currently paying for Disney Plus, so out of curiosity, I tried logging into my account through the iOS app to see what would happen. After entering my email and password, I was greeted by...
about 23 hours ago
Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths
Official websites use .govA .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure .gov websites use HTTPSA lock ( Locked padlock icon ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
about 24 hours ago
Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
Vimium is a browser extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control of the web in the spirit of the Vim editor. Installation instructions: Chrome: Chrome web store Edge: Edge Add-ons Firefox: Firefox Add-ons To install from source, see here. Vimium's Options page can be reached via a link on the help dialog (type ?) or via the button next to Vimium on the extension pages of Chrome and Edge (chrome://extensions), or Firefox (about:addons). Modifier keys are specified as <c-x>, <m-x>,...
1 day ago
__init__.py files are optional. Here's why you should still use them
If you’ve ever googled the question “Why do Python packages have empty __init__.py files?”, you could get the idea that Python packages wouldn’t work without them. This is a common misconception—they’ve been optional since Python 3.3! Why then, do most Python projects still have them? What are these files again? __init__.py files are often used to mark directories as Python packages. For example, a file structure like this: my_package/ __init__.py some_module.py will allow you to run: import my_package.some_module # or...
1 day ago
Philip Zimbardo, psychologist behind the 'Stanford Prison Experiment' dies at 91
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