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The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A little while ago, we considered how the cover of the book C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover, since the cover illustration for a book putatively about the C++ programming language shows code written in JavaScript.¹ But there’s also a question raised by the back cover. According to the blurb for the book, The topics included in it are of utmost significance and are bound to provide incredible insights to students. Some of the diverse topics covered in this text…

How Civic Sciences aims to preserve places that bring tourists to study

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Sustainable Travel 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In depth The Peruvian Amazon, Tamchiaco Tahuyu Regional Conservation Area, is characterized by enormous biodiversity – pink dolphins, rare monkeys, giant river otters, reptiles, hundreds of birds and different species of plants. It is also one of the most prominent examples of the government realizing that preserving the environment does not require turning people away. Instead, it is possible for humans to coexist with nature and help protect it.The area's protected status is supported in part by research conducted by tourists.Biologist Richard Bodmer…

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: But in its final decision, the S&P Dow Jones Indices stated that “no changes will be made to the eligibility criteria including financial viability screens, seasoning period, or minimum IWF.” Even after the standard yearlong wait, SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI may struggle to deliver the consistent profitability necessary to qualify for the S&P 500. Money rules and exceptions Swift entry into the S&P 500 would have triggered $14 billion of passive fund buying for SpaceX, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. The investment research arm of Bloomberg…

Logitech G512

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Products / Computers,Gear / Products / Home Office,Gear / Products / Gaming,Hybrid Oddity ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The transition from analog switches to mechanical switches isn't ideal either. When a regular switch is connected and the "Scan" button is pressed to reset the board, the multi-input function remains half-Functional. In my testing, I set a half-press of WASD to be the normal character, and a full press to be the character [Shift + WASD]pressing any of these keys and the second key immediately after will…

Why They Fight – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are handy for thinking about the past, but also because they make useful rules of thumb for imagining fantastical societies. So essentially here we are asking: how do societies end up with the sort of armies they have?…

The United States has a plan to combat screwworm. It involves a lot of flies

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Environment,AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Flesh-eating parasite The fly that poses a major threat to livestock has returned to the United States after 60 years. This week, the USDA confirmed the presence of New World screwworm in a calf in South Texas.It was eradicated in the United States in 1966, then as far south as Panama by 2006, and recently resurfaced in Mexico, making it likely that the screwworm will eventually re-enter the country, with models showing it could arrive as soon as the summer of 2025.…

Stop Using Conventional Commits – Sumner Evans

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it.Even though it is used by a large number of popular open source projects, Conventional Commits is an actively bad standard which encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises.Focus…

GroWell Hat Review: I have hair for the first time in 15 years

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💥 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products / Beauty,Hair Apparent 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There are dozens of LED hair growth tools on the market, from a $50 product on AliExpress marketed on a model to comically bad effect to the $2,500 Capillus Spectrum, which features a powerful array of laser diodes. Contrary to what I expected, women are actually the current dominant consumer group for LED hair regrowth treatments. As she explained to me, women are used to spending money on their appearance, and hair loss is often viewed as a crisis.…

Classic 100: 2001 to 2021

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💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Classic 100: 2001 to 2021 ABC Classic 100 Rankings: 2001 to 2021 Every year since 2001, ABC Classic FM has run a Classic 100 event, where listeners vote on their favourite pieces. This page visualises the rankings for three different years: Each dot represents a piece of music. The lines track how the rankings for that piece have changed between 2001 and 2021. …

The NSA is reportedly preparing Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations

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💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Anthropic,cyberattacks,cybersecurity,In Brief,Mythos,National Security Agency 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic has deployed about a half-dozen NSA engineers to help its spies use the company's cybersecurity AI model, Mythos, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. The engineers are tasked with helping the intelligence agency use Mythos for specific applications, the report said. However, it is not clear whether the Engineers or Mythos are being actively used in the agency's hacking operations. The NSA is charged with collecting intelligence from wiretaps, undersea cables, corporate partnerships, and other covert means, as well…