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After Kirk shooting, Utah governor calls social media a “cancer.” Will we treat it like one?

The conservative broadcaster/provocateur Charlie Kirk—murdered this week during a visit to a Utah college—had tweeted some life advice this summer: "When things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it’s important to stay grounded. Turn off your phone, read scripture, spend time with friends, and remember internet fury is not real life. It’s going to be ok." Kirk was not himself always a great role model for staying grounded, thoughtful, or caring to others. He was better know

Sparrow: C++20 Idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

sparrow C++20 idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format Introduction sparrow is an implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar format in C++. It provides array structures with idiomatic APIs and convenient conversions from and to the C interface. sparrow requires a modern C++ compiler supporting C++20. Installation Package managers We provide a package for the mamba (or conda) package manager: mamba install -c conda-forge sparrow Install from sources sparrow has a few depende

9 Best Electric Cargo Bikes for Families (2025), Tested and Reviewed

There are several physical, philosophical, environmental, and logistical reasons why it’s better to hop on an electric cargo bike than it is to drive a car. Sitting in traffic is mind-numbing. Earth is on fire. Yet somehow it's easy to ignore all this when you're late to work and have yet to wrestle pants onto your screaming toddler. If you're trying to reconcile your carefree biking days of yore with your current life as a family chauffeur—or you just want a bike for trips to the supermarket o

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Lego Finally Returns to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ With a 2,862-Piece ‘Black Pearl’

Yo ho, yo ho, a Lego life for me. The famous toy brand just officially revealed it’s returning to the world of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise with its biggest, most impressive set yet. “Captain Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Ship,” as it’s officially called, marks Lego’s return to the Disney pirate franchise after almost 10 years, and it’s starting off with a cannon blast. A 2,862-piece recreation of The Black Pearl, the ship Jack Sparrow was kicked off at the start of the first film and got

Show HN: Typed-arrow – compile‑time Arrow schemas for Rust

typed-arrow provides a strongly typed, fully compile-time way to declare Arrow schemas in Rust. It maps Rust types directly to arrow-rs typed builders/arrays and arrow_schema::DataType — without any runtime DataType switching — enabling zero runtime cost, monomorphized column construction and ergonomic ORM-like APIs. Why compile-time Arrow? Performance: monomorphized builders/arrays with zero dynamic dispatch; avoids runtime DataType matching. matching. Safety: column types, names, and nullab

Pfeilstorch

Migrating stork which has been hit by an arrow The Rostocker Pfeilstorch, found in 1822, demonstrated that birds migrated rather than hibernating or changing form in winter. A Pfeilstorch (German for 'arrow stork', pronounced [ˈpfaɪ̯l.ˌʃtɔɐ̯ç]; plural Pfeilstörche, [-ˌʃtœɐ̯.çə]) is a white stork that is injured by an arrow or spear while wintering in Africa and returns to Europe with the projectile stuck in its body. As of 2003, about 25 Pfeilstörche have been documented in Germany.[1] The fi

Herbie detects inaccurate expressions and finds more accurate replacements

Herbie improving accuracy on the “Hamming” benchmark suite. Longer arrows are better. Each arrow starts at the accuracy of the original expression, and ends at the accuracy of Herbie’s output, in each case on random double-precision inputs. Herbie Project News The Herbie Developers Herbie is developed at UW PLSE, with contributions from a supportive community. The main contributors are Pavel Panchekha, Alex Sanchez-Stern, David Thien, Zachary Tatlock, Jason Qiu, Jack Firth, and James R. Wilc

Sparrow raises $35M Series B to automate the employee leave management nightmare

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Sparrow, the employee leave management technology company, announced Tuesday it raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Silver Lake Waterman, bringing the company’s total investment to $64 million as it capitalizes on the growing complexity of workplace leave compliance. The funding comes as companies grapple with an explosion of sta

The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London

Within minutes of the cat’s meat man embarking on his circuit, the barrow would be surrounded by felines, some of whom had perfectly good homes to go to and others who did not but still hoped that a sliver of flesh might fall their way. Although there were plenty of grim jokes circulating about how cat’s meat men supplied the toughest meat they could get away with, the fact was that many of these rough diamonds were known for their tender hearts. It was not unusual to spot a cat’s meat man slipp

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What's the difference between named functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?

Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when? Function declarations and function statements We have (at least) three ways of creating functions in JavaScript. The first is the function declaration. This binds a function to a given name. It looks something like this:1 1 I’ve used String.toLowercase() here, partly for b