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A recruiter reached out with a lucrative Python developer role at a Y Combinator startup, but the job description and pay info raised red flags. The recruiter sent a take-home assignment that contained a malicious script that silently executed a remote payload.
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Gigatoken is a fast tokenizer for language modeling that supports various CPUs and tokenizers, offering significant speed improvements over HuggingFace Tokenizers. It uses SIMD and caching to achieve 1000x faster byte-pair encoding tokenization.
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Safari Technology Preview Release 248 is now available for macOS Golden Gate and Tahoe with various bug fixes and improvements. It includes fixes for VoiceOver, CSS, and JavaScript issues, as well as support for new features like BigInt Math and Digital Credentials.
A user tested seven AI models on generating SVGs of animals on vehicles, including the famous "pelican on a bicycle" prompt, and found no evidence that labs are optimizing their models to achieve high scores on this benchmark. The results suggest that AI labs may be using a technique called "SVGmaxxing" to improve their overall performance, rather than specifically optimizing for the pelican ...
It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually copy over the GitHub issue to an Org file, typically the title and description, like an animal. Despite this separation, the duplicated issue allowed me to treat it as a scratchpad for anything I could ...
SIMD allows CPUs to operate on multiple values in parallel, resulting in significant speedups for large datasets. By following a common five-step pattern, developers can easily write SIMD code that is nearly as simple as a scalar loop.
Lenders are financing AI infrastructure with debt collateralized by GPUs, whose value depends on operational state, which is invisible to lenders. This creates a risk that lenders cannot measure, resulting in a high premium for the debt.
The author feels a strong connection to making things and finds fulfillment in creating projects, but struggles with claiming credit for AI-generated work. They believe there's a difference between making something and asking someone else to make it.
The user bought an NVIDIA DGX Spark for $4000, which is now $4700, and found it to be a power-efficient and quiet general-purpose computer with a decent GPU and 128 GB of unified memory.
The user is creating a guide for optimizing Postgres performance, covering topics such as indexing, query planning, and autovacuum, and recommends using connection poolers and batching to improve throughput. The guide also touches on advanced Postgres features like row-level locking, partitioning, and triggers, and provides tips for migrating large tables and avoiding table bloat.
The user started learning OCaml, a functional programming language, after being interested in it for a long time. They found Real World OCaml to be a helpful resource, but it lacked exercises, so they used CS3110 as a beginner's course and then moved to RWO for more advanced features.
The Fairphone 6 is an interesting target for mainline Linux and postmarketOS for a few reasons: Fairphone aims to support its devices for a long time, so the phone could provide a stable base for future work. There are still two main blockers to making the device generally usable: onboard audio and camera support. I am working on a project that needs QR scanning, so I used that as an ...
CrucibleBench applies a design philosophy to AI evaluation using a MUD with constraints that make behavior measurable. It detects hallucinated actions, measures trust and suspicion, and assesses action efficiency in a persistent text world.
The user discusses the flaws in traditional cut and paste functionality, including undo issues and document reflow. They propose a new feature called "Ghost Cut" that allows for a reversible and undoable text move operation.
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Creatine is a nutrient that increases short-term energy storage and has been shown to improve strength and sprint performance, but its effects on cognitive function are unclear and may be small. While some studies suggest a benefit, others have found no effect, and the European Food and Safety Authority has concluded that there is no consistent evidence for cognitive benefits from creatine ...
Moonshot AI developed a platform to distill Anthropic's Fable for its K3 model, using U.S. models and evading detection. The US supports open AI innovation, but large-scale covert distillation to steal tech is unacceptable.
Airbus is launching a new flight-test campaign to evaluate high-span wings for next-generation single-aisle aircraft. The campaign will test full-scale wing extensions on an A321neo aircraft over the next three years.
The author of the 80s microcomputer game The Wizard's Castle embedded machine code in a REM statement to seed the PRNG, which was not immediately apparent due to the use of non-ASCII encoded glyphs. The machine code was later discovered to be a routine that retrieves a random value from the screen and uses it to seed the PRNG, providing a unique randomly-generated dungeon for each game.
The author is a movie fan who dislikes the current state of streaming services, which have become fragmented and confusing. They feel that the original promise of streaming has been lost due to the proliferation of multiple services and the return of ads.
DeepSQL optimizes database performance, cuts costs by 40%, and provides BI dashboards. It installs on Linux, EC2, or containers, indexes schema, and learns workloads for senior DBAs and data engineers.
Noise is a function that generates values following specific rules, and it can be classified into 1D, 2D, 3D, etc., based on the number of parameters it takes. Perlin noise is a type of noise developed by Ken Perlin in 1983, which uses precalculated unit vectors and a permutation table to generate a smooth, coherent noise pattern.
Formal verification is a tool used to verify correctness of mathematical statements, and Lean is a functional programming language and theorem prover that can be used to write down proofs in code and get them machine-checked. The tutorial aims to introduce cryptography engineers to the basics of formal verification using Lean by walking through the very basics of Lean and formally verifying ...
Passkeys were invented by security engineers with zero understanding of the consumer brain. We had no way to argue its merits since no one understood what they are. As a result, we are now all asked to produce the magic fairy dust to login to apps. It may be on your phone, in your browser, in your operating system, in your body, who knows. But now you’re safe.
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