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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