Amid slowing sales growth, CEO Andy Jassy is culling projects concocted during the Jeff Bezos era. From a report: When Jeff Bezos ran the show, Amazon.com encouraged employees to pitch product ideas -- then take them from concept to reality with minimal bu Tweet
Learn how Traveloka, one of the largest online travel companies in Southeast Asia, uses open source Backstage as the developer portal for APIs hosted on Amazon API Gateway. Tweet
Heather Cox Richardson: Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks , the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informe Tweet
In India, children under 16 returning to school this month at the start of the school year will no longer be taught about evolution, the periodic table of elements, or sources of energy. Nature: The news that evolution would be cut from the curriculum for Tweet
RARBG, one of the world's largest torrent sites, has said "farewell" to millions of users. From a report: The site, which was a prominent and stable source of new movie and TV show releases, cited a variety of reasons behind its decision to cease operation Tweet
One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information. The post Data Compression Drives the Internet. Here’s How It Works. first appeared on Quanta Magazine Tweet
Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated -- and their differences are playing out this week in Sweden. From a report: Some White House and Commerce Department officials support t Tweet
Assessing the state of affairs. The post C++/WinRT event handlers that are lambdas with weak pointers to the parent class, part 1 appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
Constant outages and the model seemingly getting nerfed[^1] are driving me insane. Which viable alternatives to GPT-4 exist? Preferably self-hosted (I'm okay with paying for it) and with an API that's compatible with the OpenAI API. [^1]: Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by child pornography victims to overcome a legal shield for internet companies in a case involving a lawsuit accusing Reddit Inc of violating federal Tweet
A remarkably insightful set of predictions about cell phones from 1953: snopes.com/fact-check/cellph… nitter.net/Rainmaker1973/status/1663877999413051392#m Tweet
Version 4.54.0 of MSAL, Microsoft authentication library for .NET, brings official support for using managed identities when authenticating services that run in Azure. Furthermore, it features better error information for UWP applications and several bug Tweet
In a groundbreaking ruling, a district court judge in New York, United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), declared that a warrant is necessary for cell phone searches at the border, unless there are urgent circumstances. The Electronic Frontier Found Tweet
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced Azure Deployment Environments' general availability (GA). This service allows development teams to create segregated instances within Azure for deploying and managing applications in different stages, s Tweet
Klotho announced InfraCopilot, an infrastructure as a Code (IaC) editor with natural language processing capabilities. The user can chat with InfraCopilot describing their infrastructure needs and it translates these ideas into a low-level architecture. Tweet
A SpaceX capsule carrying a former NASA astronaut and three paying customers returned from the International Space Station, marking the conclusion of a historic weeklong mission for the crew. From a report: The Crew Dragon spacecraft departed the space sta Tweet
It is much faster than before but the quality of its responses is more like a GPT-3.5++. It generates more buggy code, the answers have less depth and analysis to them, and overall it feels much worse than before. For a while, the GPT-4 on phind.com gave Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: An International Atomic Energy Agency team arrived in Tokyo on Monday for a final review before Japan begins releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Tweet
Arm unveiled its upcoming flagship CPUs for 2024, including the Arm Cortex X4, Cortex A720, and Cortex A520. These chips, built on the Armv9.2 architecture, promise higher performance and improved power efficiency. Arm also introduced a new 'QARMA3 algorit Tweet
My Photo Stream, the free cloud-based photo syncing feature Apple launched in 2011, is shutting down on July 26th, according to an Apple Support page spotted by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The Verge reports: The end of My Photo Stream won't come as too much o Tweet
I was amused to see that Gingerich showed the writer a strange lump on his desk and asked her to figure out what substance it was made of. He ran the exact same test on me when I was his student! Tweet
This mini-profile succinctly captures who Owen Gingerich was. In one of his biggest projects, he tracked down every copy of Copernicus's "De Revolutionibus" to show how ineffectual the Church was at suppressing the idea that Earth goes around the Sun. aa Tweet
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on Sunday that the student loan payment pause is "gone" in the debt ceiling deal announced by the California Republican and President Biden late Saturday night. "The pause is Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from France 24: The scale of plastic pollution is growing, relentlessly. The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, reaching 353 million tonnes in 2019, according to OECD figures. The vast maj Tweet
2023-05-31 02:00:10 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
The App Store’s commerce and payments system was built to empower you to conveniently set up and sell your products and services at a global scale in 44 currencies across 175 storefronts. Apple administers tax on behalf of developers in over 70 countries Tweet
Stephen Hackett, writing at 512 Pixels: Photo Stream is one of the original components of iCloud, and was kept around even after iCloud Photo Library launched in 2014. Here’s how Apple pitched the feature when iCloud was new. Michael Tsai : Y Tweet
In 2021, YouTube made the controversial decision to hide dislike counts on its platform, citing the aim of protecting creators from harassment. While this removed a valuable metric for viewers, alternatives have emerged, such as the browser extension Retur Tweet
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has begun her 11-year prison sentence after being convicted of four counts of fraud. The BBC reports: She will serve her term in a minimum-security prison in Texas. Holmes reported to the federal facility in Brya Tweet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A lawyer is in trouble after admitting he used ChatGPT to help write court filings that cited six nonexistent cases invented by the artificial intelligence tool. Lawyer Steven Schwartz of the firm Levi Tweet
OpenAI made its official ChatGPT app available on the US App Store, providing voice-based input, GPT-4 support for paying users, and faster response times. The company said they will soon start the roll out to additional countries and that an Android ver Tweet
A few unrelated items: I’ve been hearing from several people about their plans to travel to China this summer, just realized that they’re all going there for the same reason, to participate in the First International Congress of Basic Science. Tweet
Asking for myself and those who are looking for what good communities often provide: feeling of connection, purpose, a place to go, etc. Comments URL: Points: 428 # Comments: 523 Tweet
The recordings of these talks were initially available only to Startup School students. After those students told us how helpful the videos were for them, we decided to make them available to everyone. Tweet
My designer is somewhat special, if I do say so myself, as it allows you to put arbitrary designs in the middle area of the QR while still being totally scannable. Comments URL: Points: 620 # Commen Tweet
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: If mindlessly browsing the internet is your preferred way to combat boredom and waste time, the indie app makers behind to-do list app Clear and game Heads Up have a new product you’ll want to try: Web Roulette , Tweet
I have a little script that will print the frequency of the most common characters in a file and the number of lines. All numbers are displayed along with their factorizations. It also prints the number of non-ASCII characters. CSV files These simple stat Tweet
Becoming an empowered team means solving problems rather than shipping features. Empowering software engineers and involving them early in discovery work can result in better products. If we measure outcomes rather than output, we can also hold teams acc Tweet
Making data open and available to all helps us all understand our world and are thus better informed to shape the policies to run it. But such openness does come with problems - one in particular is the invasion of people's privacy. Detailed census inform Tweet
2023-05-30 16:00:54 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
Mark your calendars for an exhilarating week of technology and community. Be among the first to learn the latest about Apple platforms, technologies, and tools. You’ll also have the opportunity to engage with Apple experts and other developers. All online Tweet
2023-05-30 16:00:05 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
WWDC23 is almost here. We’ll be kicking off with the Apple Keynote on June 5 at 10:00 a.m. PT. Watch online at apple.com or in the Apple Developer app. You can even use SharePlay to watch with friends. Activities are now open for sign-up for eligibl Tweet
You can still do it, but it's not really supported. The post How do I change the directory Windows uses for user profiles? revisited appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
BoS had the pleasure of sitting down with Lucy Heskins, the brilliant mind behind Oh Blimey, to discuss a topic that many professionals ponder: hiring an agency. Our conversation shed light on the intricacies of this decision and the valuable insights Lucy Tweet
Changes in the 3D structure of their genome gave skates and rays their distinctive winglike fins and pancake flatness. The post How 3D Changes in the Genome Turned Sharks Into Skates first appeared on Quanta Magazine Tweet
Researchers from Microsoft, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Columbia University have open-sourced Large Language and Vision Assistant (LLaVA). LLaVA is based on a CLIP image encoder and a LLaMA language decoder, is fine-tuned on a synthetic inst Tweet
Suppose you’ve learned a thousand of something, maybe a thousand kanji or a thousand chemicals or a thousand species of beetles. Now you want to review them to retain what you’ve learned. Now suppose you have a program to quiz you, drawing ite Tweet
Beginning in Swift 5.8 you can flexibly adopt upcoming Swift features using a new compiler flag and compilation condition. This post describes the problem upcoming feature flags solve, their benefits, and how to get started using them in your projects. Tweet
Grafana Labs has released version 9.5 of Grafana including improvements to Grafana Alerting, service accounts, and improvements to the dashboards. Support bundles were also released providing a simpler way to gather and share debugging information about Tweet
This is the second follow-up patch release in the 8.1.x series due to regressions and bugs that are too annoying to leave lingering around. Release video Numbers the 219th release0 changes7 days (total: 9,202)14 bug-fixes (total: 9,045)22 commits (total: 3 Tweet
On this day in 1832, Evariste Galois died in a duel. The night before, he summarized his ideas in a letter to his friend Auguste Chevalier. Hermann Weyl later wrote “This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhap Tweet
On this day in 1832, Evariste Galois died in a duel. The night before, he summarized his ideas in a letter to his friend Auguste Chevalier. Hermann Weyl later wrote “This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhap Tweet
Owen was my college advisor. He was gentle and generous, but when he got curious he was also relentless; he searched for rigorous answers, not mumbled hunches. I am a better person for having known him. nitter.net/planet4589/status/1663303254988521472# Tweet
As the tech world prepares for one of the most highly anticipated events of the year, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), developers from all corners of the globe are eagerly anticipating what the Cupertino giant has in store. Tweet
Trailer for a new documentary from The Verge: Sabotage, hired goons, and a landfill in Utah: this is a story about the life, death, and afterlife of Apple’s most pioneering computer, the Lisa. A major inspiration for the Macintosh, Steve Jobs champion Tweet
This edition of Week in Review marks the end of the month of May. In addition, we just finished all of the in-person AWS Summits in Asia-Pacific and Japan starting from AWS Summit Sydney and AWS Summit Tokyo in April to AWS Summit ASEAN, AWS Summit Seoul, Tweet
2023-05-29 21:46:02 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
El problema del subespacio invariante se formuló c. 1930 en espacios de Banach (espacios vectoriales con norma completos). Afirma que todo operador lineal acotado T en un espacio de Banach […] La entrada Sobre la posible solución de Per Enflo del Tweet
Sky Guide brings the beauty of the stars down to Earth. Thanks to AR, understanding the cosmos has never been simpler — just hold it overhead to automatically identify any star, constellation, planet or satellite. Developed as a native iOS app over the pa Tweet
Alan Sepinwall, writing for Rolling Stone: A lot happens over the course of the 90-minute Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.” Alliances are made, broken, and made again. Votes happen, fortunes rise and fall, losers become winners, and vice v Tweet
Neil Jhaveri, founder and lead developer of Mimestream, the terrific new native Mac email client for Gmail, joins the show to talk about email, Mac apps, and indie software development. Sponsored by: Trade Coffee : Let’s Coffee Better. Get a free b Tweet
Adam Engst, writing at TidBITS: Where Mimestream shines is in its attention to visual form and functional detail — the small interface elements and features that make working with email feel familiar, fluid, and fast. I spend hours per day in email, a Tweet
One question for Laura Weidinger and Iason Gabriel, research scientists at Google DeepMind. The post Who Should Make the Rules That Govern AI? appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
My thanks to Kolide for their continuing sponsorship support here at DF — they sponsored Daring Fireball last week, and they are the presenting sponsor at the upcoming The Talk Show Live From WWDC . They’re a great company with a great product. Here’s Tweet
There are the obvious arguments, the non-obvious arguments, and the invisible arguments. The post On writing functions that accept any specialization of a C++ template type appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
This week's Java roundup for May 22nd, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Cloud 2022.0.3, Spring Shell 3.1.0, 3.0.4 and 2.1.10, Spring Security Kerberos 2.0-RC2, Payara Platform, Quarkus 3.0.4 and 2.13.8, WildFly 28.0.1, Micronaut 4.0-M5, He Tweet
How do you use the NWPathMonitor to monitor network availability? Do You Need To Monitor Network Availability? Before iOS 11, if you started a URLSession to make a network connection it would fail at once if the network was not available. To avoid r Tweet
2023-05-29 12:34:00 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
El mundo de las publicaciones científicas está repleto de anécdotas y curiosidades. Como artículos científicos con al menos cuatro coautores con el mismo apellido, que lo habitual es que sean […] La entrada Un artículo científico con cuatro coaut Tweet
In this tutorial, we'll explore handling the 'NoSuchElementException: No line found' exception when reading a file using the Scanner class in Java. We'll explain its root cause and present three solutions: defensive programming, exception handling, and ch Tweet
Learn various methods such as using the kubectl command with the --namespace flag, modifying the Kubernetes configuration file, and updating the context with the kubectl config set-context command. Tweet
This post will compare the accuracy of approximations for the perimeter of an ellipse. The exact perimeter is given in terms of an elliptic integral. (That’s where the elliptic integrals gets their name.) And so an obvious way to approximate the pe Tweet
My Chess plugin has now been on the ChatGPT plugin store for almost 2 weeks. So I thought it might be fun to run through some stats and initial impressions. My plugin was approved on the 11th of May. Just in them for them to start rolling out a Tweet
Scorpion is a TV show that ran from 2014 to 2018. It involves a group of brilliant (to say the least) but socially awkward (to say the least) people who help the government battle threats and/or solve crimes. The episode Risky Business aired o Tweet
Supernova #SN2023ixf has appeared in the nearby galaxy M101. Here's a map of our cosmic neighborhood to show what "nearby" means to a cosmologist. The map is about 40 million light years across. via @DanielPomarede iopscience.iop.org/article/1… Tweet
The new supernova is too faint to see with the naked eye, but easily detectable through a telescope. This shot by @ECardedeu shows the supernova glowing as brightly as a billion stars in its galaxy, M101! Tweet
What does a supernova look like before it blows? Archival images from the Hubble telescope captured the progenitor of #SN2023ixf , the stellar explosion now visible in nearby galaxy M101. arxiv.org/abs/2305.14447 wis-tns.org/astronotes/astro… Tweet
It’s funny what gains traction for the long haul, and what turns out, in hindsight, to be a flash in the pan. I, for one, never would have predicted that WordPress would grow to become, by far , the most popular CMS in the world, and the foundation of a Tweet
There is again a pull-request submitted to the curl project to bring support for the Gemini protocol. It seems like a worthwhile effort that I support, even if it is also a lot of work involved and it might take some time before it reaches the state in whi Tweet
Recent observations suggest our solar system has a second Kuiper Belt -- a group of objects orbiting in the cold, dim reaches far beyond Pluto. The @NASANewHorizons probe will pass through it over the next decade! spaceref.com/science-and-exp… Tweet
During the recent developer week, Cloudflare announced a Worker API to create outbound TCP sockets. The new socket API allows developers to connect back to TCP-based infra directly from a Worker, including databases. By Renato Losio Tweet
After a few years in public beta, Mimestream 1.0 is out, and it’s fantastic. Mimestream is a Mac email client specifically for Gmail. They’ve got plans to expand to iOS, and plans to perhaps expand to IMAP (and JMAP) email accounts in the future, but as i Tweet
The most recent update, covering the week starting May 22nd, 2023, encompasses the latest progress and declarations in the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week, the focus is on prominent figures such Adobe, Mic Tweet
I quipped yesterday that I thought Ivory for Mac wasn’t just the best Mac Mastodon client, but the only good one. A bunch of readers chimed in to endorse Mona, by Junyu Kuang, as a good Mac client. I had tried Mona a while back, and found it lacki Tweet
Lastminute.com has adopted contract tests to mitigate difficulties resulting from using system-level integration tests and to improve the feedback cycle and development process while eBay is using contract testing to help safely evolve their internal API Tweet
OpenSearch Service recently introduced support for Multi-AZ with Standby, a new deployment option for the search and analytics engine that provides 99.99% availability and better performance for business-critical workloads. By Renato Losio Tweet
Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton, reporting for Platformer: Spaces are hosted on Twitter’s own servers and servers rented from Amazon Web Services. AWS servers for Spaces are “insanely underprovisioned” relative to the need for them, according to a forme Tweet
Speaking of Tapbots, here’s Andrew Logan writing for Texas Monthly: Amir Shevat, Twitter’s former head of product for the developer platform, who lives in Round Rock, was responsible for ensuring that the tools Twitter provided independent software de Tweet
Now shipping in the Mac App Store: Tapbots’s Ivory for Mac. I’ve been using it in beta for a few months, and don’t know what I’d do without it. It’s not just the best Mac Mastodon client, it’s the only good one that exists. $15/year just for the Mac clien Tweet
I’ve been making some improvements to the blog. In the previous post, I talked about how I was using ChatGPT to generate tags, summaries and lists of related articles. If that’s working correctly then the previous post should appear in the list of related Tweet
Our eyes are narrowly adapted to conditions on Earth. To see the universe as it really is, we have to use instruments that go far beyond the limits of human vision. chandra.harvard.edu/photo/20… #perspective Tweet
Everything in this image of the Eagle Nebula is invisible to the human eye. JWST shows the infrared glow of warm gas & dust. Chandra shows x-rays blasting from active young stars. Our technology brings the invisible universe into view. chandra.harv Tweet
2023-05-26 19:58:30 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
As part of ongoing efforts to improve security and privacy on Apple platforms, the App Store receipt signing intermediate certificate that’s used to verify the sale of apps and associated in‑app purchases is being updated to use the SHA‑256 cryptographic Tweet
Correction: I forgot about Salyut 1. The Soviets beat the US by sending up the first space station in 1971. Salyut 1's only crew died on reentry, bringing the project to an early end. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut… Tweet
Comment Now that Apple is running the primarily online but one-day on-site version of WWDC that we’re about to enjoy for the second time, it finally feels like we can look at what a modern WWDC looks like. As Tweet
2023-05-26 17:58:41 @ Apple Developer News and Updates
As announced last year at WWDC , if you notarize your Mac software with the Apple notary service using the altool command-line utility or Xcode 13 or earlier, you’ll need to transition to the notarytool command-line utility or upgrade to Xcode 14 or late Tweet
The Sun-blocking "parasol" that rescued the Skylab space station was woven by Delores Zeroles and Ceal Webb of International Latex Corporation. nasa.gov/centers/marshall/hi… #Skylab50 Tweet
Astronauts moved into the world's first space station 50 years ago today. Skylab had suffered significant damage on launch & required a makeshift sunshade to avoid deadly overheating. #Skylab50 #NASA nitter.net/NASAhistory/status/16621038013003 Tweet
Once destruction begins, strong references mean nothing. The post Getting a strong reference from the <CODE>this</CODE> pointer too late appeared first on The Old New Thing . Tweet
When you're in a team, collaborating with others, it's crucial to embrace diverse opinions and dissent; you need to have good conflicts. Conflicts have bad reputations, but with curiosity you can harvest more positive outcomes and build trust and psycho Tweet
“Instant classic” is, of course, an oxymoron. A classic is something that has passed the test of time, and by definition that cannot happen instantly. But how long should the test of time last? In his book Love What Lasts, Joshua Gibbs argues Tweet
2023-05-26 12:06:50 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
La computación cuántica topológica será robusta y tolerante a fallos. Una propuesta es usar cúbits basados en el trenzado (braiding) de alones (anyons)∗ no abelianos. Los alones son hipotéticas partículas […] La entrada Google Quantum AI y Quanti Tweet
2023-05-26 10:58:56 @ La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
He participado en el episodio 417 del podcast Coffee Break: Señal y Ruido [Acast A, Acast B; iVoox A, iVoox B; iTunes A y iTunes B], titulado “Ep417: Supernova; Computación Cuántica y Alones; Fusión; Postdocs», 25 may 2023. «La tertulia […] La ent Tweet
FAAS in Go with WASM, WASI and Rust THEGREENPLACE.NET This blog post has a bit of everything, writing Go applications using WASI, creating a plugin system, writing Rust/Wasm applications - and a bit of hand-crafted WAT (WebAssembly Text Format) to Tweet
"Animal Liberation" is nearly 50 years old. What have we learned? The post A Conversation with Animal Rights Pioneer Peter Singer appeared first on Nautilus . Tweet
I hate to complain as Markdown continues its march to world domination, * but it’s really dumb that Discord added syntax for underlining (and ugly syntax at that). The only reason underlining should be used today, in any context, is to indicate hyperlink Tweet
Taegan Goddard, writing at Political Wire on Ron DeSantis’s much-ballyhooed campaign launch on Twitter Spaces yesterday: In the end, the event had all of the appeal of a glitchy conference call. Politics aside, the event was humiliating for Elon M Tweet
Renate Loll has helped pioneer a radically new approach to quantum gravity. She assumes that the fabric of space-time is a blend of all possible fabrics, and she has developed the computational tools needed to calculate the far-reaching implications of tha Tweet
Posted by Kevin Hernandez, Developer Relations Community Manager For AAPI Heritage Month, we are celebrating Vickie Li, Web GDE Vickie Li , Web GDE, is a Senior Security Engineer at Instacart where she works on a Tweet
You still need to filter to your window, so you don't mess up another window on the same thread. The post How can I trigger a recalc of the mouse cursor after I changed some of my internal application state?, follow-up appeared first on The Old New T Tweet
In 2003, Agrawal, Kayal and Saxena showed that primality testing is in P, i.e., you could test for primes without using any randomness. What if you want to find a prime? Specifically given a number m in binary, can you find a prime p > m in time polyn Tweet
Suppose you have a random number generator that returns numbers between 1 and N. The birthday problem asks how many random numbers would you have to output before there’s a 50-50 chance that you’ll repeat a number. The coupon collector problem Tweet
In the cloud, application development can be treated end-to-end with its accompanying infrastructure. This makes it possible to use test-driven development (TDD) and refactoring on the full application, which can bring down maintenance costs. By Ben Li Tweet
AI researchers already use a range of evaluation benchmarks to identify unwanted behaviours in AI systems, such as AI systems making misleading statements, biased decisions, or repeating copyrighted content. Now, as the AI community builds and deploys incr Tweet
There were hints about this last fall, but now it’s official: Bungie is reviving Marathon: Marathon is currently in development for playstation 5, xbox series x/s, and pc with full cross play and cross save. This news either evokes some strong f Tweet
For widely used, widely distributed open source project such as curl, we often have little to no relation at all with our users and therefore it is hard to get feedback and learn what works and what is less good. Our best and primary way is thus simply to Tweet
Always an interesting perusal. Apps on my iPhone that made the list: Flighty , Camo , and Knotwords . Oh, and Universe — a very ambitious website/store builder for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. ★ Tweet
If I’ve seen these snapshots before, I’d forgotten them. Extraordinary how casual they are, sitting on the floor in a cramped bedroom like teenagers. Nice find from the gang at Poolsuite. (Andy Hertzfeld tells a bit of the backstory to this in “ A Mac for Tweet