Singapore to be first in banning ads on sugary drinks
Singapore to be first in banning ads on sugary drinks
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What Japan can teach us about cleanliness
The students sit with their satchels on their desks, eager to get home after another long day of seven 50-minute classes. They listen patiently as their teacher makes a few announcements about tomorrow’s timetable. Then, as every day, the teacher’s final word…
Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State
Back in 2015, Brian Will wrote a provocative blog post: Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story. He followed it up with a video called Object-Oriented Programming is Bad, which is much more detailed. I recommend taking the time to watch the video, b…
Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz
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Current Time – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The threat of information warfare and other disruptive technologies. Nuclear war and climate change threaten the physical infrastructure that provides the food, energy, and other necessities required for human life. But to thrive, prosper, and advance, people…
The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h
is a header provided by the standard C library, introduced in C99 to allow easier porting of Fortran numerical software to C. Fortran, unlike C, provides “intrinsic functions”, which are a part of the language and behave more like operator…
Computer Files Are Going Extinct
Computer Files Are Going Extinct Illustration courtesy of the author. I love files. I love renaming them, moving them, sorting them, changing how theyre displayed in a folder, backing them up, uploading them to the internet, restoring them, copying them, an…
Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit?
It is always an interesting time. You didn’t say “what kind” of exit, that is important.In one, people go from owning options in their company which is private to owning options in another company that is also private. In the two companies where I have seen t…
HOWTO make Linux run blazing fast (again) on Intel CPUs
It’s just been one security disaster after another for Intel the last few years. Meltdown, Spectre variant after variant and this week the “Microarchitectural Data Sampling” aka Zombieload attack have all required performance-degrading fixes and workarounds. …
Homemade IC
Homemade computer chips / integrated circuits Preface I am very excited to announce the details of my first integrated circuit and share the journey that this project has taken me on over the past year. I hope that my success will inspire others and help s…
Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete=”off”
Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete=”off”
Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200
Elkins programmed his tiny stowaway chip to carry out an attack as soon as the firewall boots up in a target’s data center. It impersonates a security administrator accessing the configurations of the firewall by connecting their computer directly to that por…