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Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 22:42:00

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech -- formerly known as Lambda School -- with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices. From a report: The business, which claims on its site it will

Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 22:01:00

A jury found Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Markets platform. Axios: The case was the first known test for a jury to decide whether existing U.S. laws gover

Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 21:22:00

U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing plans to enter the flying car business in Asia by 2030, looking to tap demand for the fast travel the vehicles could provide in the region's traffic-choked cities. Nikkei: Boeing Chief Technology Officer Todd Citron reveal

Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 20:41:00

Nigeria will criminalize the destruction of broadband fiber cables following repeated complaints by MTN Nigeria and other telecommunications companies that they are losing billions of naira, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Author Granted Copyright Over Book With AI-Generated Text - With a Twist

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 20:00:00

The U.S. Copyright Office has granted a copyright registration to Elisa Shupe, a retired U.S. Army veteran, for her novel "AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words," which extensively used OpenAI's ChatGPT in its creation. The registration is among th

Scientists Create Atomically Thin Gold With Century-Old Japanese Knife Making Technique

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-18 19:36:49

Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material, but it also set off a rush to find other promising atomically thin materials. Now researchers have managed to create a 2D version of gold they call “goldene,” which could have a host of application

Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 19:22:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. T

Kafka-docker-composer: A Simple Tool to Create a docker-compose.yml File for Failover Testing

Confluent @ 2024-04-18 19:00:02

Learn how to use kafka-docker-composer, a simple tool to create a docker-compose.yml file for failover testing, to understand cluster settings like Kraft, and for app development.

I keep a WTF notebook (2021)

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 18:42:04

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 304 # Comments: 75

Meta Releases Llama 3 AI Models, Claiming Top Performance

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 18:40:00

Meta debuted a new version of its powerful Llama AI model, its latest effort to keep pace with similar technology from companies like OpenAI, X and Google. The company describes Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, containing 8 billion and 70 billion parameters res

After creating Google Photos and Bump, David Lieb is our newest Group Partner

YC @ 2024-04-18 18:00:00

Today Google Photos has more than a billion users. Most of those users probably don’t know that Google Photos' story begins at a startup called Bump.

Google is Combining Its Android and Hardware Teams

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 18:00:00

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team called "Platforms and Devices" that will oversee all of Google's Pixel products, all of Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Photos, and more. F

Meta Llama 3

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 17:57:22

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1088 # Comments: 463

Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 17:24:00

Researchers in Canada got most of what they were hoping for in the country's 2024 federal budget, with a big boost in postgraduate pay and more funding for research and scientific infrastructure. From a report: "We are investing over $5 billion in Canadian

Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-18 16:56:12

Researchers have shown how to find the simplest description of a data set faster than by simply checking every possibility. The post Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Odds of US TikTok Ban Increase After House Fast-Tracks Revised Bill, Picking Up Key Senate Support

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 16:45:00

U.S. lawmakers have moved closer to enacting a countrywide ban on TikTok. From a report: Last month, the House of Representatives passed a bill by a wide margin that would ban distribution of TikTok in U.S. unless TikTok's Chinese parent, ByteDance, sells

US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 16:07:00

The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot's seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that an AI-controlled jet successfully faced a human pilot during an in-air dogfight test carried out last year. Fr

Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 16:01:06

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 280 # Comments: 84

Airbnb Open-Sources its ML Feature Platform Chronon

InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 16:00:00

Chronon, Airbnb platform to create the infrastructure required to transform raw data into ML-ready features, is now open source. As Airbnb ML infrastructure engineer Varant Zanoyan explains, Chronon supports a variety of data sources and aims to provide

Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 2

old new thing @ 2024-04-18 16:00:00

First attempt to try to fix the race condition. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

NASA’s Webb Makes the Distant Universe Dream Come True

Nasa Webb @ 2024-04-18 15:59:33

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is delivering on its promise to explore the farthest reaches of the universe, looking back to a time when galaxies were just beginning to form. Scientists have been eagerly waiting to use this complex observatory to unders

How big will a carpet be when you roll or unroll it?

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-18 15:52:57

If you know the dimensions of a carpet, what will the dimensions be when you roll it up into a cylinder? If you know the dimensions of a rolled-up carpet, what will the dimensions be when you unroll it? This post answers both questions. Flexible carpet: s

Favorite Theorems: Quantum Provers

Computational Complexity @ 2024-04-18 15:11:00

For our next favorite theorem, we look at the surprising power of provers who share entangled bits. If you can prove something to an arbitrarily computable verifier, then two entangled provers can convince a polynomial-time verifier. MIP* = RE Zhengfen

Google Terminates 28 Employees For Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 15:07:00

Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government. From a report: The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees entered and disr

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 14:16:30

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 206 # Comments: 77

Inside Amazon's Secret Operation To Gather Intel on Rivals

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 14:00:00

Amazon staff went undercover on Walmart, eBay and other marketplaces as a third-party seller called "Big River," WSJ reports. The mission: to scoop up information on pricing, logistics and other business practices. From the report: For nearly a decade, wor

How to Do Sustainable Software Development

InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 13:06:00

Software sustainability includes computing for environmental purposes and using resources appropriately. According to Coral Calero, software engineers need a holistic way of looking at software and should be aware of the environmental impact of software.

Laura Mersini-Houghton: a quantum multiverse

AEON @ 2024-04-18 12:01:00

Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter the quantum multiverse - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Is 8GB of RAM Enough For a Mac?

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 12:00:00

Apple is doubling down on 8GB of RAM for many of its entry-level Macs, claiming that it's "suitable for many tasks," including browsing, video streaming and even "light" video and image editing. As of this writing, all MacBook Air laptops, the Mac Mini, an

What is ‘lived experience’?

AEON @ 2024-04-18 12:00:00

The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and a danger to true solidarity - by Patrick J Casey Read at Aeon

Building SaaS from Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: A Deep Dive into a Cloud Startup

InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 11:00:00

Joni Collinge, Diagrid's Founding Software Engineer, presented at QCon London and discussed a case study on the evolutionary design and implementation of the Diagrid Cloud platform, which underpins Diagrid’s SaaS offerings. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Call for editors 2024

Quantum Journal @ 2024-04-18 10:14:23

In 2024 Quantum will celebrate 7 years since the first publications! From that first batch of papers, the journal grew to over 1300 published articles. This growth was made possible ...

Lower Decks, cancelada

brucknerite @ 2024-04-18 10:02:27

La quinta temporada de Star Trek: Lower Decks se publicará (me cuesta decir «se emitirá», porque con el streaming nadie emite nada) este otoño y será, desgraciadamente, la última. No me cuesta…

Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration

slashdot @ 2024-04-18 09:00:00

Sweden is the newest nation to sign onto NASA's Artemis Accords -- a series of non-binding bilateral arrangements for peaceful and responsible exploration. Space.com reports: During a signing event in Stockholm on Tuesday (April 16), Swedish Minister for E

KubeCon EU: Mercedes-Benz’s Migration From Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies

InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 08:06:00

During KubeCon EU the Mercedes Benz team presented their migration journey from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies to secure their 1000+ Kubernetes clusters. The solution was chosen in favour of Kyverno due to its improved performance

★ European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 04:35:24

If Meta caves and complies with this ruling by offering a free tier with significantly lower ARPU, that opens the door for regulators and legislative bodies around the globe to demand the same.

‘Oh the Humanity’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 03:21:00

Ben Sandofsky: An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, “I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way.” As someone who strives to build products with the craft and

Goldene: A single atom layer of gold

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 03:09:51

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 200 # Comments: 115

Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-18 02:51:16

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 555 # Comments: 73

Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s Interpreter and Friend, Stole $16 Million to Pay Only a Portion of His Gambling Losses

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 02:32:47

Speaking of sports gambling scandals , here’s Tim Arango and Michael S. Schmidt, reporting for The New York Times: Ohtani has many other accounts, of course — he earns more money from endorsements and business deals than he does from his lucrative ba

NBA Bars Jontay Porter for Betting

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-18 02:15:45

Joe Vardon, reporting for The Athletic: The league said that Porter, who spent part of his time in the NBA and part of it in its developmental G League, privately told a sports bettor he was hurt, removed himself from a game to control prop bets on hi

Trailblazers: Notes on Session 7 of TED2024

TED Blog @ 2024-04-18 02:00:36

We’re about halfway through TED2024, and Session 7 was a whopper — covering everything from preventative medicine for one of the world’s rare diseases to quantum computing, the future of audio computing and a sprinkle of musical improvisational

JEP 473: Stream Gatherers (Second Preview)

Inside Java @ 2024-04-18 02:00:00

The following JEP is targeted to JDK 23: 473: Stream Gatherers (Second Preview)

Java Withers - Inside Java Newscast #67

Inside Java @ 2024-04-18 02:00:00

JEP 468 proposes a solution to the verbosity that can come from modeling mutable state with immutable records: derived record creation aka with expressions aka withers . That'll make it easy and succinct to create a copy of a record instance while changing

Nakamura enreda a Praggnanandhaa

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-18 01:34:30

Nada hacia presagiar el extraño desenlace de esta partida hasta que el indio, apurado de tiempo, perdió el control de la posición

Google Announces Agent Builder, Expanded Gemini 1.5, Open-Source Additions

InfoQ @ 2024-04-18 01:06:00

At the Google Cloud Next 2024 event, Google announced the launch of Vertex AI Agent Builder, the public preview of Google's most advanced generative AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and the addition of open-source language models to the Vertex AI platform. By

Boston Dynamics Says Farewell to Its Humanoid Atlas Robot—Then Brings It Back Fully Electric

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-18 00:29:33

Yesterday, Boston Dynamics announced it was retiring its hydraulic Atlas robot. Atlas has long been the standard bearer of advanced humanoid robots. Over the years, the company was known as much for its research robots as it was for slick viral videos of t

Bridge-Builders: Notes on Session 6 of TED2024

TED Blog @ 2024-04-17 23:00:10

In Session 6 of TED2024, we heard from bridge-builders — inspiring speakers working to unite people across political divides, conflicts, differences and more. The event: Talks from Session 6 of TED2024: The Brave and the Brilliant, hosted by TED’s He

Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 22:17:11

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 1239 # Comments: 403

Of Course Regulation Can Work

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 21:47:37

Dan Moren, writing last week at Six Colors: Lately you can’t throw a digital camera without hitting a story on the various regulatory and legal challenges Apple’s been facing. While some have decried these actions as interference in the internal opera

Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 21:46:46

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 262 # Comments: 120

Delta Game Emulator Now Available From the App Store

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 21:04:46

Everything is coming up Milhouse this week for Riley Testut . Juli Clover for MacRumors: Game emulator apps have come and gone since Apple announced App Store support for them on April 5, but now popular game emulator Delta from developer Riley T

Nine Rebel Astronomy Theories That Went Dark

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-17 21:00:32

Bright ideas from astronomy’s biggest stars haven’t always worked out. The post Nine Rebel Astronomy Theories That Went Dark appeared first on Nautilus .

Provocateurs: Notes on Session 5 of TED2024

TED Blog @ 2024-04-17 20:30:20

Bold ideas often meet resistance — but what if they were met with curiosity? Session 5 of TED2024 didn’t shy away from audacious ideas. Instead, it invited us all to embrace the discomfort of considering the impossible and unfamiliar, to find the courage t

AltStore PAL Launches in the EU

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 19:57:37

Riley Testut: I’m thrilled to announce a brand new version of AltStore — AltStore PAL — is launching TODAY as an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace in the EU. AltStore PAL is an open-source app store made specifically for independent devel

CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 19:48:31

Article URL: Comments URL: Po

Show HN: Speeding up LLM inference 2x times (possibly)

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 19:26:09

Here's a project I've been working on for the last few months. It's a new (I think) algorithm, that allows to adjust smoothly - and in real time - how many calculations you'd like to do during inference of an LLM model. It seems that it's possible to do

Reddit is taking over Google

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 19:20:32

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 245 # Comments: 318

How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 19:18:07

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 274 # Comments: 155

Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 19:09:14

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 631 # Comments: 164

The forgotten war on beepers

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 18:47:21

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 261 # Comments: 360

Donald Trump Writes and Narrates Documentary Short Film on the Battle of Gettysburg

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 18:30:01

Amazing he found time for this amidst his campaigning and legal travails. But like many former presidents, he has a serious interest in history.  ★ 

When should a founder trust gut instincts?

YC @ 2024-04-17 18:16:00

We often see founders getting this one backwards.

Meet YC’s newest Visiting Group Partners

YC @ 2024-04-17 18:00:00

We're excited to announce we have three new Visiting Group Partners joining us for the S24 YC batch.

libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 17:11:26

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 264 # Comments: 29

The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 17:04:08

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 275 # Comments: 239

Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-17 16:50:47

Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) next decade. The post Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft first appeared on Qu

Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 16:26:31

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 240 # Comments: 55

Approximating a spiral by rings

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-17 16:19:31

An Archimedian spiral has the polar equation r = b θ1/n This post will look at the case n = 1. I may look at more general values of n in a future post. The case n = 1 is the simplest case, and it’s the case I needed for the client project that motiv

Mixtral 8x22B

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 16:00:37

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 503 # Comments: 236

Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 1

old new thing @ 2024-04-17 16:00:00

Where each notification depends on some state information. The post Adding state to the update notification pattern, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Thoughtworks’ VP of Data and AI Shares Insights for Building a Robust Data Product at QCon London

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 15:13:00

During his QCon London presentation, Danilo Sato, vice president of data & AI at Thoughtworks, reemphasized the importance of using domain-driven design and Team Topologies principles when implementing data products. This ensures effective data encapsula

An electric new era for Atlas

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 15:12:14

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 435 # Comments: 410

Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected graphs

Hacker News 200 @ 2024-04-17 15:05:14

Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 209 # Comments: 36

ASF Project Spotlight: Apache AGE 

ASF @ 2024-04-17 14:45:35

Can you tell us a bit about the project?Apache A Graph Extension (AGE) is a PostgreSQL extension that provides graph database functionality. The project was originally developed in 2019 as an extension to AgensGraph, Bitnine Global’s multi-model database

13 Tips to Improve PostgreSQL Insert Performance

Timescale blog @ 2024-04-17 14:00:00

Some of these may surprise you, but all 13 ways will improve ingest (INSERT) performance using PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB.

Purple mountain

AEON @ 2024-04-17 12:01:00

For a truly ‘naive melody’, listen as musicians try to mirror a song in realtime, accompanied by a dreamy animation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Stateful Cloud Services at Neon Navigating Design Decisions and Trade-Offs: Q&A with John Spray

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 12:00:00

At QCon London, John Spray, a Storage Engineering Lead @neon.tech, discussed the often-overlooked complexities of stateful cloud service design, using Neon Serverless Postgres as a case study. His session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on

QCon London: Scaling Microservices Architecture and Technology Organization at Trainline

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 09:00:00

During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations b

Open Source Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 08:00:00

Elastic announced the alpha release of the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET. This distribution preconfigures the collection of tracing, metrics and logs. Additionally, the distribution ensures that the OTLP exporter is enabled by de

Application Security Optimised for Engineering Productivity

InfoQ @ 2024-04-17 07:25:00

Laura Bell Main presented a webinar on 2024 trends in application security. She called out a shift from siloed DevSecOps initiatives to building an understanding of dev friction, and presenting solutions which optimise engineering productivity. Nikki Rob

This Week in Rust 543

This Week in Rust @ 2024-04-17 06:00:00

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWee

‘Papyrus 2’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 03:36:11

Jason Kottke: Ryan Gosling was on Saturday Night Live this weekend and they did a sequel to one of my favorite SNL sketches (which is completely dorky in a design nerd sort of way) ever: Papyrus . Behold, Papyrus 2. See also: Elle Cordova’s “Fo

Hypergeometric function of a large negative argument

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-17 03:00:07

It’s occasionally necessary to evaluate a hypergeometric function at a large negative argument. I was working on a project today that involved evaluating F(a, b; c; z) where z is a large negative number. The hypergeometric function F(a, b; c; z) is

‘MKBHDs for Everything’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 02:57:52

Ben Thompson, marking the 10th anniversary of Stratechery as a full-time endeavor: Who, though, is to blame, and who benefited? Surely the responsibility for the Humane AI Pin lies with Humane; the people who benefited from Brownlee’s honesty were his

Walt Mossberg, Still the King

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 02:48:28

Regarding the jacktastic argument that Marques Brownlee shouldn’t call the worst product he’s ever reviewed the worst product he’s ever reviewed, I’m reminded of the lede from Alan Deutschman’s 2004 profile of Walt Mossberg for Wired: Walt Mossberg

Jackass of the Week: Daniel Vassallo

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 02:29:39

Daniel Vassallo, who has over 172,000 followers on Twitter/X, regarding Marques Brownlee’s scathing but utterly fair (if not bend-over-backwards fair) “ The Worst Product I’ve Ever Reviewed... For Now ” review of the Humane AI Pin: I find it distastef

Illuminators: Notes on Session 4 of TED2024

TED Blog @ 2024-04-17 02:00:37

For Session 4 of TED2024, illuminators from diverse disciplines explored the bright future of their fields. From AI as a digital species to explosive art that climbs into the sky, speakers looked at how light (literally and figuratively) can shape our clim

Jextract Guide

Inside Java @ 2024-04-17 02:00:00

This guide shows how to run the jextract tool, and how to use the Java code that it generates. The samples under the samples direcotry are also a good source of examples…

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map – View and analyze internet health

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-17 01:58:12

The Internet has a plethora of moving parts: routers, switches, hubs, terrestrial and submarine cables, and connectors on the hardware side, and complex protocol stacks and configurations on the software side. When something goes wrong that slows or disrup

No Notes

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-17 01:42:36

John Davidson, writing for the Australian Financial Review on Phil Schiller’s testimony in Australia, where Apple is once again facing off against Epic Games ( archive link in case FR’s web server goes down): The casual approach to its meetings, inst

System Changers: Notes on Session 3 of TED2024

TED Blog @ 2024-04-16 23:00:16

Many of the world’s systems, big and small, could use an upgrade. In a dynamic Session 3 at TED2024, six speakers explore how to do just that — taking on everything from global development and capitalism to robots and vertical farming. The event: Talks fro

Seeing What One Wants to See

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 22:46:17

Matt Stoller, linking to the aforelinked FT report on Apple “losing” the top spot in IDC’s phone market share figures: The early signs that Apple is having a Boeing-like slow collapse. That’s quite the take. It is true that iPhone sales have be

The Financial Times Pretends Apple Plays the Market Share Game

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 22:36:54

Tim Bradshaw and Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times, under the eye-opening headline “Apple Loses Smartphone Crown to Samsung as Chinese Rivals Gain Ground” ( archive link ): Apple lost its lead in the global smartphone market at the star

The Part-Time Climate Scientist

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-16 22:17:22

A humble steam engineer put humans in the driver’s seat. The post The Part-Time Climate Scientist appeared first on Nautilus .

Meet the 2024 class of TED Fellows

TED Blog @ 2024-04-16 22:00:08

In this complex world, it’s easy to believe that the future is out of our hands. But there are some who understand that the future doesn’t just happen — it’s made. Among these are the TED Fellows: innovators, activists, artists, inventors and dreamers. The

Agent-Based Models (Part 8)

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-04-16 21:01:15

Last time I presented a class of agent-based models where agents hop around a graph in a stochastic way. Each vertex of the graph is some ‘state’ agents can be in, and each edge is called a ‘transition’. In these models, the probabi

Agent-Based Models (Part 8)

Physics Phorums @ 2024-04-16 21:01:15

Last time I presented a class of agent-based models where agents hop around a graph in a stochastic way. Each vertex of the graph is some ‘state’ agents can be in, and each edge is called a ‘transition’. In these models, the probabi

Mind Expanders: Notes on Session 2 of TED2024

TED Blog @ 2024-04-16 20:30:52

AI is reshaping how we interact with the world around us and within us, expanding creative possibilities and bringing us closer together by dissolving barriers of all kinds. But anyone who’s paying attention can spot its obvious flaws and potential p

Not All Web APIs Are Good APIs

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 20:26:10

Eric Lee on Threads: I was wondering why I haven’t seen websites utilizing Vibration API when I see more and more apps using it including Arc Search and AirChat. Safari doesn’t even support it so there it goes 🫠 This exemplifies the broken think

Exploding Stars Are Rare—but if One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life on Earth

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-16 19:37:00

Stars like the sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1 percent over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of hydrogen into helium that powers them. This process will keep the sun shining steadily for about 5 billion more years, b

Fix Your SDLC Before Adopting Gen AI in Your Organisation: Bannon’s Call to Action at QCon London

InfoQ @ 2024-04-16 18:16:00

During her keynote at QCon London, Tracy Bannon, architect and researcher at MITRE, argued that AI will be able to enhance the software development lifecycle, though currently it’s at the “code completion” rather than “code generation” phase. Throughout

Web Distribution now available in iOS 17.5 beta 2 and App Store Connect

Apple Developer News and Updates @ 2024-04-16 18:00:54

Web Distribution lets authorized developers distribute their iOS apps to users in the European Union (EU) directly from a website owned by the developer. Apple will provide developers access to APIs that facilitate the distribution of their apps from the

Dureza muy precoz de Gukesh

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-16 16:48:51

Caruana, 2º del mundo, intentó en la 4ª ronda doblegar al prodigio indio; pero no pudo porque se encontró con un rival férreo

Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus model is now available on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-16 16:34:45

We are living in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) era; a time of rapid innovation. When Anthropic announced its Claude 3 foundation models (FMs) on March 4, we made Claude 3 Sonnet, a model balanced between skills and speed, available on Amazon

Find the Date of Easter Sunday for the Given Year

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 16:22:48

Learn how to find the date of Easter Sunday for the given year using three algorithms in Java.              

Different Ways to Use Limit and Skip in MongoRepository

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 16:15:14

Explore the skip and limit functionalities within MongoRepository.              

In search of the Ballmer Peak, and other results from SIGBOVIK 2024

old new thing @ 2024-04-16 16:00:01

Continuing studies in silliness. The post In search of the Ballmer Peak, and other results from SIGBOVIK 2024 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Dubious security vulnerability: Program allows its output to be exfiltrated

old new thing @ 2024-04-16 16:00:00

Once the output is generated, the program can't control where it goes. The post Dubious security vulnerability: Program allows its output to be exfiltrated appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide.

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-16 15:50:36

The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch. The post Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Dec

How Timescale Replication Works: Enabling HA in PostgreSQL

Timescale blog @ 2024-04-16 15:06:00

Timescale supports database replication through read replicas. Learn how they work under the hood and how you can enable them.

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Paimon 

ASF @ 2024-04-16 15:00:00

A table format for batch and stream processing, Apache Paimon has graduated from the Apache Incubator Wilmington, DE, April 16, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active ope

Google Trains User Interface and Infographics Understanding AI Model ScreenAI

InfoQ @ 2024-04-16 15:00:00

Google Research recently developed ScreenAI, a multimodal AI model for understanding infographics and user interfaces. ScreenAI is based on the PaLI architecture and achieves state-of-the-art performance on several tasks. By Anthony Alford

Science Outreach News

Not Even Wrong @ 2024-04-16 14:37:00

A few items on the science outreach front: The Oscars of Science were held Saturday night in Hollywood, with a long list of A-listers in attendance, led by Kim Kardashian. More here, here and here. You’ll be able to watch … Continue reading &

More is less

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-16 13:40:35

When I first started using Unix, I used a program called “more” to read files. The name makes sense because each time you press the space bar, more will show you more of your file, one screen at a time. Now everyone uses less, and more is all

Shadow API Detection for Google Cloud Environments in Preview

InfoQ @ 2024-04-16 12:00:00

During Google Cloud Next, Google announced the preview release of shadow API detection in Advanced API Security, part of the Apigee API Management solution. This managed API Broker service in the Google Cloud allows users to design, secure, deploy, monit

My elusive pain

AEON @ 2024-04-16 12:00:00

The lives of North Africans in France are shaped by a harrowing struggle to belong, marked by postcolonial trauma - by Farah Abdessamad Read at Aeon

Lecciones de geopolítica industrial

brucknerite @ 2024-04-16 10:00:00

La Agencia Espacial Europea, y por tanto las empresas del sector aeroespacial europeo, clave en cualquier cálculo de futuro, son responsables de la «mitad técnica» de la nave Orión que debe llevar, de nuevo, astronautas a la superficie lunar antes de 2030.

Finding the Redirected URL of a URL in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:58:03

Learn how handling redirection correctly is essential for building robust web applications that interact with external resources.              

Print the Default Value When Overriding toString() Method

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:56:02

Learn about overriding the toString() method and handling the potential null within.              

Find the Length of the Longest Symmetric Substring

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:53:24

Learn how to handle the symmetric substring expansion methods, taking into account the specific requirements such as input size and computational efficiency.              

[Sponsor] Kolide: ‘Looking Past the Smoke and Mirrors of the MGM Hack’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 04:19:41

The September 2023 MGM hack quickly became one of the most notorious ransomware attacks in recent memory. Journalists and cybersecurity experts rushed to report on the broken slot machines, angry hotel guests, and the fateful phishing call to MG

Download File from S3 Given a URL

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:14:13

Learn how to download a file from S3 given a URL with Java and AWS SDK.              

How to Specify the logback.xml Location

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:10:12

A quick and practical guide to customizing the logback.xml location.              

How to Intercept a Request and Add Headers in WebFlux

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:06:16

Explore different ways of intercepting and adding custom headers for both server web requests and web client requests in Spring WebFlux              

PrintWriter write() vs print() Method in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 04:04:28

Discover the differences between PrintWriter's write() and print() methods.              

Iterator vs forEach() in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-04-16 03:52:57

Learn how to navigate through collections and arrays using the Iterator inteface and forEach() method.              

The Etak Navigator

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 03:52:38

James Killick, writing on Map Happenings: Today, I’d like to tell you about the Etak Navigator, a truly revolutionary product and the world’s first practical vehicle navigation system. [...] Nearly everything about the Etak Navigator had to be conc

John Sterling, Radio Voice of the Yankees for 36 Years, Retires at 85

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-16 03:26:29

Bryan Hoch, MLB.com: The Yankees announced on Monday that Sterling has retired, effective immediately. The 85-year-old Sterling will be recognized in a pregame ceremony on Saturday at Yankee Stadium. He will visit the WFAN radio booth during that afte

Dreamers: Notes on Session 1 of TED2024

TED Blog @ 2024-04-16 02:00:06

It’s time for TED! And this year’s conference marks a big year: the 40th anniversary of TED, honoring the inaugural conference in 1984. With that in mind, TED2024 kicked off with a classically eclectic opening session, ranging from a powerful conversation

Firouzja: talento y zapatos

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-16 00:05:51

El francés se queja de que el árbitro le llamó la atención en el momento crítico de la partida contra Niepómniashi por el ruido al caminar

Linkage

0xDE @ 2024-04-16 00:03:00

Michael Mitzenmacher is making an unusual request for publicity for his NON-participation in a conference (\(\mathbb{M}\)). It calls itself ICAIM, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, to be held in Nanjing in September,

Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Projection

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-15 23:15:44

Mike Swanson: If you’ve read my first post about Spatial Video , the second about Encoding Spatial Video , or if you’ve used my command-line tool , you may recall a mention of Apple’s mysterious “fisheye” projection format. Mysterious because they’

Nominee for Claim Chowder of the Year 2024: Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2023 Award for Humane’s AI Pin

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-15 22:47:23

When this was published in late October it struck me as deeply weird that Time would give an award to a product that was, at the time of publication, over five months away from actually shipping. And now that it has shipped, and appears poised to go dow

A New Photonic Computer Chip Uses Light to Slash AI Energy Costs

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-15 22:45:16

AI models are power hogs. As the algorithms grow and become more complex, they’re increasingly taxing current computer chips. Multiple companies have designed chips tailored to AI to reduce power draw. But they’re all based on one fundamental rule—they use

Java News Roundup: JobRunr 7.0, Introducing the Commonhaus Foundation, Payara Platform, Devnexus

InfoQ @ 2024-04-15 22:45:00

This week's Java roundup for April 8th, 2024 features news highlighting: JobRunr 7.0; introducing the Commonhaus Foundation; the April 2024 edition of Payara Platform; JEP 473, Stream Gatherers (Second Preview), and JEP 469, Vector API (Eighth Incubator)

Shocker: ByteDance Still Receives Data From U.S. TikTok Users

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-15 21:28:54

Alexandra Sternlicht, reporting for Fortune ( News+ ): Evan Turner, who worked at TikTok as a senior data scientist from April to September in 2022, said TikTok concealed the involvement of its Chinese owner during his employment. When hired, Turner i

Congratulations to the PartyRock generative AI hackathon winners

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-15 20:22:05

The PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon wrapped up earlier this month. Entrants were asked to use PartyRock to build a functional app based on one of four challenge categories, with the option to remix an existing app as well. The hackathon attracted 7,650 r

Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 59 New Members

ASF @ 2024-04-15 19:34:52

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members Meeting on 20 March 2024: Jim Apple, Michael Bien, Nicolò Boschi, Francis Chuang, Cédric Damioli, Brian Demers, Hao Ding, Lukasz Dywicki

Guggenheim 2024

Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP @ 2024-04-15 18:30:46

Edward Hirsch is the President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has lead it since 2003. He just announced the appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplin

AWS Weekly Roundup: New features on Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, OAC for Lambda function URL origins on Amazon CloudFront, and more (April 15, 2024)

AWS Blog @ 2024-04-15 18:18:11

AWS Community Days conferences are in full swing with AWS communities around the globe. The AWS Community Day Poland was hosted last week with more than 600 cloud enthusiasts in attendance. Community speakers Agnieszka Biernacka, Krzysztof Kąkol, and more,

The Bad Trip Detective

Nautilus blog @ 2024-04-15 17:04:39

The researcher delving into the downsides of psychedelic drugs. The post The Bad Trip Detective appeared first on Nautilus .

Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-15 16:15:34

Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off moons and planets. The post Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits first appeared on Quanta Magazine

What were the tax consequences of letting Windows 95 team members keep a piece of software as long as they tested it?

old new thing @ 2024-04-15 16:00:47

It basically falls under the de minimis rule. The post What were the tax consequences of letting Windows 95 team members keep a piece of software as long as they tested it? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Avi Wigderson is a counterexample to TWO stupid thoughts of G.H. Hardy

Computational Complexity @ 2024-04-15 15:53:00

 Recently 1) Avi Wigderson won the Turing Award (See blog posts by Fortnow- here , Scott- here , Lipton-Regan here , and the ACM announcement  here ).  The last time I could find when Fortnow-Gasarch, Scott, Lipton-Regan all blogged on th

YC in the UK

YC @ 2024-04-15 15:00:00

YC will be visiting London and three universities in the UK – Cambridge, Imperial, and Oxford. If you’re interested in starting a startup, or are in the early stages of building one, we hope to see you there.

Nowruz

AEON @ 2024-04-15 12:01:00

Jumping the fire and shaking the house: a joyful beginner’s guide to the ancient Persian celebration of spring renewal - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduation of CloudEvents: Q&A with Clemens Vasters

InfoQ @ 2024-04-15 12:00:00

Earlier this year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that CloudEvents had graduated. CloudEvents is a specification designed to expose event metadata in a standardized manner, which helps to ensure interoperability across platforms,

Philosophy is an art

AEON @ 2024-04-15 12:00:00

For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life - by Peter West Read at Aeon

No te pierdas «Jugando al billar con bolas de luz» el próximo jueves 18 de abril

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-15 11:35:27

No te pierdas la charla «Jugando al billar con bolas de luz» que impartirá el Dr. Jesús Cuevas-Maraver, del Grupo de Física No Lineal (GFNL) y del Instituto de Matemáticas […] La entrada No te pierdas «Jugando al billar con bolas de luz» el próxi

Gran calidad de Gukesh

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-15 01:00:08

El juvenil indio no sólo exhibe su genialidad sino también una consistencia impropia de sus 17 años, como en esta partida

Pok Pok

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 23:51:02

My thanks to Pok Pok for sponsoring last week at DF. Pok Pok is a delightful collection of digital toys for kids aged 2–7, for both iPhone and iPad. Designed by parents and educators unhappy with the apps they found, Pok Pok has no ads, no overstimulating

Exploring Complex Number Arithmetic Operations in Java

Baeldung @ 2024-04-14 23:29:16

Learn how to perform complex-number operations in Java.              

Polymorphism with Gson

Baeldung @ 2024-04-14 23:23:21

A quick and practical guide to handling polymorphic structures with Gson.              

The Masters VisionOS App

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 22:59:02

It’s Sunday at Augusta, the leaderboard is tight at the top, and Augusta National has a pretty damn good VisionOS app. Some cool VR features like tabletop-style VR maps of the holes, with 3D shot-tracking. All free of charge, too, from one of the only maj

Underpromise and Overdeliver

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 22:46:50

Eric Migicovsky (on a different subject), in a post on Twitter/X: Aspiring consumer HW makers (big and small) - this may sound obvious, but my rec is to underpromise/overdeliver for your first version. It’s hard because you want to balance sharing t

Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Projection

Mike Swanson's Blog @ 2024-04-14 21:01:24

If you’ve read my first post about  Spatial Video , the second about  Encoding Spatial Video , or if you’ve used my  command-line tool , you may recall a mention of Apple’s mysterious “fisheye” projection format. Mysterious because they’ve documented a  C

More on the Problem With ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 19:46:42

Week-old news I’d been meaning to link to: In a new interview with Khan that aired late Monday on Comedy Central, Stewart claimed Apple leaned on him to avoid talking to Khan, who took over as head of the FTC in 2021. “I wanted to have you on a podc

‘A Tour de Force of International Crisis Management for the Biden White House’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-14 19:10:26

Josh Marshall, writing at Talking Points Memo: Together, Israel, the U.S. and various allied Arab states took down 99% or more of all those devices. Iran launched a massive aerial bombardment and virtually none of it got through. And now the U.S. has

Protonium

John Carlos Baez @ 2024-04-14 12:57:14

It looks like they’ve found protonium in the decay of a heavy particle! Protonium is made of a proton and an antiproton orbiting each other. It lasts a very short time before they annihilate each other. It’s a bit like a hydrogen atom where the

Protonium

Physics Phorums @ 2024-04-14 12:57:14

It looks like they’ve found protonium in the decay of a heavy particle! Protonium is made of a proton and an antiproton orbiting each other. It lasts a very short time before they annihilate each other. It’s a bit like a hydrogen atom where the

Reseña: «Física cuántica», n.º 37 de la edición coleccionista de MUY Interesante

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-14 12:50:14

Te recomiendo disfrutar de mis dos artículos sobre gravitación cuántica y el espín de los campos cuánticos en «Física Cuántica», n.º 37, Edición Coleccionista de MUY Interesante: «La esquiva gravedad […] La entrada Reseña: «Física cuántica», n.º

Golpe importante de Nakamura

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-14 01:18:08

Todo indicaba que Caruana había logrado una posición muy sólida con las piezas negras cuando empezó a flojear, y fue castigado radicalmente

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 13)

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-13 16:00:10

ROBOTICS Is Robotics About to Have Its Own ChatGPT Moment? Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review “For decades, roboticists have more or less focused on controlling robots’ ‘bodies’—their arms, legs, levers, wheels, and the like—vi

Mi charla Naukas BCAM Pi 2024: «La música de los números primos»

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-13 13:15:50

Os presento las transparencias y una transcripción (extendida) de mi charla de 15 minutos en Naukas BCAM Pi 2024, titulada «La música de los números primos». La presenté el pasado […] La entrada Mi charla Naukas BCAM Pi 2024: «La música de los nú

Microsoft Is Testing Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-13 00:49:51

More Windows news from Tom Warren at The Verge: Microsoft says it’s starting to test ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11. The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest

Joanna Stern’s Humane AI Pin (Mini) Review

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 22:38:49

Not even worth a full column, just a 90-second social media video. Or “ vid ”, if you will. She points out that Humane only offers a website — no apps — for accessing your captured photos, videos, and notes. I totally get why Humane designed the AI Pin

Mendocino, sakura, and my father

0xDE @ 2024-04-12 22:29:00

Last weekend I made a quick visit to my mother in Mendocino for a memorial service for my father, Tony Eppstein. He died last August, I think while I was on a plane to Tokyo, but I had seen him only days before and it was expected.

Cherlynn Low’s Humane AI Pin Review for Engadget

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 22:08:49

Cherlynn Low: When you can read what’s on the screen, interacting with it might make you want to rip your eyes out. Like I said, you’ll have to move your palm closer and further to your chest to select the right cards to enter your passcode. It’s a

Ciencia para todos T06E14: El estado de la divulgación de la ciencia en Málaga

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-12 21:56:50

Te recomiendo escuchar el episodio T06E14, «El estado de la divulgación de la ciencia en Málaga», 09 abr 2024 [14:45 min], del programa de radio “Ciencia para Todos”, en el […] La entrada Ciencia para todos T06E14: El estado de la divulgación de

Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 21:20:16

From its About page : Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries

Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship

Singularity Hub @ 2024-04-12 21:13:31

Elon Musk has long been open about his dreams of using SpaceX to spread humanity’s presence further into the solar system. And last weekend, he gave an updated outline of his vision for how the company’s rockets could enable the colonization of Mars.

Microsoft’s Hard-Sell Pitch to Windows 10 Users With PCs Ineligible for Windows 11

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 20:39:06

Tom Warren, writing at The Verge: Microsoft is trying to entice Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 with fullscreen prompts 18 months before the end of support cutoff. Reddit user Woopinah9 spotted a notification “while in the middle of workin

Podcast CB SyR 459: BabyLM Challenge, arqueomagnetismo mesopotámico, cosmología de DESI DR1, GW230529 en salto de masa y nuevo titanosaurio uruguayo

La Ciencia de la Mula Francis @ 2024-04-12 19:59:20

Te recomiendo disfrutar del episodio 459 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [Acast A, Acast B; iVoox A, iVoox B; iTunes A y iTunes B], titulado “Ep459: BabyLM; Arqueomagnetismo; DESI; Gravitondas; Titanosaurio», 11 abr 2024. «La tertulia semanal en [

iOS Dev Weekly - Issue 656 - Apr 12th 2024

iOS Weekly @ 2024-04-12 19:00:54

Comment One great thing about WWDC being in San Francisco was that everything was close. It didn’t matter much which event you chose to go to after the conference finished every day, it was all within walking dis

Gukesh subestima a Firouzja

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-12 18:26:32

Dos de los mayores talentos de este siglo pelean con muy alto riesgo hasta que, en apuros de tiempo, el indio cae en una trampa del francés

How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?

Quanta Magazine @ 2024-04-12 16:00:12

By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. The post How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The case of the string being copied from a mysterious pointer to invalid memory

old new thing @ 2024-04-12 16:00:00

Using AppVerifier to deduce the heap allocation history. The post The case of the string being copied from a mysterious pointer to invalid memory appeared first on The Old New Thing .

[Livestream] ICPC World Finals: Kotlin Heroes Blind Coding Challenge

Kotlin Blog @ 2024-04-12 15:48:58

Join us for an exciting livestream event broadcast directly from the ICPC World Finals: Kotlin Heroes Blind Coding Challenge. This is going to be a very special event featuring world-level competitive programmers: Gennady “tourist” Korotkevich, Andrew “ecn

[Livestream] ICPC World Finals: Kotlin Heroes Blind Coding Challenge

Kotlin news @ 2024-04-12 15:48:58

Join us for an exciting livestream event broadcast directly from the ICPC World Finals: Kotlin Heroes Blind Coding Challenge. This is going to be a very special event featuring world-level competitive programmers: Gennady “tourist” Korotkevich, Andrew “ecn

Precise answers to useless questions

The Endeavour @ 2024-04-12 14:25:05

I recently ran across a tweet from Allen Downey saying So much of 20th century statistics was just a waste of time, computing precise answers to useless questions. He’s right. I taught mathematical statistics at GSBS [1, 2] several times, and each t

How to make a map of smell

AEON @ 2024-04-12 12:00:00

We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is too complex and personal? Strangely, no - by Jason Castro Read at Aeon

El efecto Dunning-Kruger no existe

brucknerite @ 2024-04-12 10:00:00

Y yo no lo sabía, quizá porque el efecto Dunning-Kruger se empeñaba en rescatarse a sí mismo de su inexistencia haciendo presa en mi ignorancia, más visceral que formal, de un principio fundamental de la estadística…

The Verge’s Review Scale

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 04:29:13

Re: my postscript wondering how in the world David Pierce’s scathing review of the Humane AI Pin resulted in a 4/10 score — I didn’t realize that The Verge has a page describing their review scale: We assume the 10-point scale is relatively straig

David Pierce Reviews Humane’s AI Pin: ‘Nope. Nuh-Uh. No Way.’

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 03:31:54

David Pierce, mincing no words at The Verge: That raises the second question: should you buy this thing? That one’s easy. Nope. Nuh-uh. No way. The AI Pin is an interesting idea that is so thoroughly unfinished and so totally broken in so many unaccep

Job Opportunity: Principal Software Developer (Java Security Libraries)

Inside Java @ 2024-04-12 02:00:00

The Java Security Engineering team is responsible for the Java platform security libraries and security tools development. The technologies we provide include a rich set of APIs, tools, and implementations of security algorithms and protocols. The Java sec

Programmer’s Guide to JDK Flight Recorder

Inside Java @ 2024-04-12 02:00:00

JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is a low overhead profiling and troubleshooting framework built into the Java Virtual Machine. It comes with a powerful programming API that allows you to create application specific events. The API can also be used as a datasourc

Eclipses Should Be Celebrations of Science, Not Pseudoscience

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 01:57:27

Narayana Montúfar, covering the astrological “impact” of Monday’s solar eclipse for Women’s Health: So, what makes the Great American Eclipse of April 8, 2024 so special? Ancient astronomers — who, by the way, were also astrologers — believed that the

Mattel Makes New Version of Scrabble for Dum-Dums

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 01:22:34

Jack Guy, CNN: Now, an updated game named Scrabble Together adds “a second side to the board that is collaborative and faster-paced to make gameplay more accessible for anyone who finds word games intimidating,” according to a statement from Mattel pu

Automattic Acquires Beeper, Will Merge With Texts

Daring Fireball @ 2024-04-12 00:19:27

Eric Migicovsky: If you haven’t heard of Beeper before, welcome! We make a universal chat app — one app to send and receive messages on 14 different chat networks. You might have also heard about Beeper Mini, our briefly available iMessage-on-Androi

Reyerta de muy alto nivel

Partidas ajedrez El País @ 2024-04-12 00:01:17

Nakamura y Niepómniashi mantienen un durísimo duelo teórico y práctico sobre la Defensa Petrov analizada hasta la saciedad