Most startups start with a light-bulb moment. The founder suddenly clearly sees a problem with no apparent solution. How can I solve that? they think. Unfortunately, that’s not the correct question (at least not on its own). And that’s a big reason why a reported 10% of startups fail in the first year, and another 70% fail in years two through five. Ultimately, only one in ten survive. I know this
Much has been written about the 10x — heck, 100x — engineer. The mystical creature that ships features in hours instead of months and perseveres where others back down. Corny as it may sound, I think it’s a pretty good representation of how the world works. But does the 10x analyst exist? I believe so. How about the 100x analyst? I’m not sure. From 1x to 100x analystTake two people — Entry-level E
OpenAI's Rules for Model Behavior, Better Brain-Controlled Robots, and more
Dear friends, In the last couple of days, Google announced a doubling of Gemini Pro 1.5's input context window from 1 million to 2 million tokens, and OpenAI released GPT-4o, which generates tokens 2x faster and 50% cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo and natively accepts and generates multimodal tokens. I view these developments as the latest in an 18-month trend. Given the improvements we've seen, best pra
I don’t really have time to write seriously about this, and there’s a very good argument that this is a topic anyone with any sense should be ignoring, but I just can’t resist linking to the latest in the abc saga, the REPORT ON THE RECENT SERIES OF PREPRINTS BY K. JOSHI posted yesterday by Mochizuki. To summarize the situation before yesterday, virtually all experts in this subject have long ago
FSL
What? The Functional Source License (FSL) is a mostly permissive non-compete license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after two years. It is designed for SaaS companies that value both user freedom and developer sustainability. FSL provides everything a developer needs to use and learn from your software without harmful free-riding. FAQ Why? Many SaaS companies wish to make the source code for t
GitHub - xjdr-alt/entropix: Entropy Based Sampling and Parallel CoT Decoding
Sorry for the sorry state of the entropix repo, i unexpectedly had to be heads down on some last min lab closure mop up work and was AFK. Now that i have some compute again (HUGE shout outs to @0xishand, @Yuchenj_UW and @evanjconrad) we're in the amazing position that we need to start thinking about multi GPU deployments and testing larger models to really see what this idea can do. However, most
Debugging distributed database mysteries with Rust, packet capture and Polars
QuestDB is a high performance time-series database with SQL analytics that can power through data ingestion and analysis. It's open source and integrates with many tools and languages. Give us a try! A few months back I was working on the primary-replica replication feature in QuestDB. The feature was nearing completion of development but we had a report that it was using a significant amounts of
devenv 1.0: Rewrite in Rust We have just released devenv 1.0! 🎉 This is a rewrite of the CLI to Python Rust, which brings with it many new features and improvements. I would like to thank mightyiam for a week-long, Rust pair-programming session at Thaiger Sprint. Note: Read the migration guide at the end of this post, as 1.0 is not entirely backwards compatible. Why rewrite twice? When I started
The sudo utility represents a critical privilege boundary, so it should be memory safe. We rewrote it in Rust with partners at Tweede golf and Ferrous Systems. Ruben Nijveld from the Tweede golf team offers his perspective here on one of the greatest challenges we faced when developing software that can be widely adopted: Rust crate dependencies. When sudo-rs development started, we added several
Automate safe AWS CloudFormation deployments from GitHub | Amazon Web Services
AWS DevOps Blog Automate safe AWS CloudFormation deployments from GitHub AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources, now supports using Git sync to automatically trigger a deployment whenever a tracked Git repository is updated. This enables developers to significantly speed up the development cycle for Cloud
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Marginalia does relatively well by sometimes providing decent but not great answers and then providing no answers or very obviously irrelevant answers to the questions it can't answer, with a relatively low rate of scams, lower than any other search engine (although, for these queries, ChatGPT returns zero scams and Marginalia returns some). Interestingly, Mwmbl lets users directly edit search res
Happy April 1st! This post is part of April Cools Club: an April 1st effort to publish genuine essays on unexpected topics. Please enjoy this true story, and rest assured that the tech content will be back soon! That's what my dad said when I asked what was wrong with our home internet connection. "The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining." Let's back up a few steps, so we're all on the same page ab
Proposal: Custom CSS Functions & Mixins · Issue #9350 · w3c/csswg-drafts
Background Read the full explainer There's an existing issue for Declarative custom functions, which forms the basis for much of this proposal. I'm opening a separate issue here, in order to make a broader proposal building on that, which includes both functions and mixins. From a language perspective, mixins and functions are somewhat distinct – they live at different levels of the syntax, and co
I have held back on writing anything about AI or how we (not) use AI for development in the curl factory. Now I can’t hold back anymore. Let me show you the most significant effect of AI on curl as of today – with examples. Bug Bounty Having a bug bounty means that we offer real money in rewards to hackers who report security problems. The chance of money attracts a certain amount of “luck seekers
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Programming note: this week, there will be no The Pulse on Thursday. I’m attending Craft Conference in Budapest, Hungary and delivering my annual conference talk the same day. My keynote is titled “What’s Old is New Again.” I’ll share the recording in the newsletter, once it will become available. I hope you enjoy this detailed deepdive on a lean and nimble startup (Bluesky) for the week! Bluesky
Background Last year I experienced the all-too-common career burnout. I had a couple of bad projects in a row, yes, but more generally I was disillusioned with the software industry. There seemed to be a disconnection between what I used to like about the job, what I was good at, and what the market wanted to buy from me. I did the usual thing: I slowed down, quit my job, started therapy. I revise
By Rajiv Shringi, Vinay Chella, Kaidan Fullerton, Oleksii Tkachuk, Joey Lynch IntroductionAs Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming, the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital. In previous blog posts, we introduced the Key-Value Data
Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception | The White House
Salamander Washington D.C. Washington, D.C. 11:54 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Rosy, thank you very much. (Applause.) Please. (Applause.) Please. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please. Thank you all so very much. Many of you have been my personal friends and political friends for a long time. I know I don’t look it, but I’ve been around a long while. (Laughter.) And I want to than
Even as the fusion era dawns, we’re still in the Steam Age
Steam locomotives clattering along railway tracks. Paddle steamers churning down the Murray. Dreadnought battleships powered by steam engines. Many of us think the age of steam has ended. But while the steam engine has been superseded by internal combustion engines and now electric motors, the modern world still relies on steam. Almost all thermal power plants, from coal to nuclear, must have stea
Announcing wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files | Samuel Henrique (samueloph)
tl;dr Whenever you need to download files through the terminal and don't feel like using wget: wcurl example.com/filename.txt Manpage: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/curl/wcurl.1.en.html Availability (comes installed with the curl package): Debian unstable - Since 2024-07-02 Debian testing - Since 2024-07-18 Debian 12/bookworm backports - Expected by the end of August 2024. Debian 12/bookwor
Many people, including myself, have implemented garbage collection (GC) libraries for Rust. Manish Goregaokar wrote up a fantastic survey of this space a few years ago. These libraries aim to provide a safe API for their users to consume: an unsafe-free interface which soundly encapsulates and hides the library’s internal unsafe code. The one exception is their mechanism to enumerate the outgoing
Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer
On February 15th, newly-created Fediverse accounts started posting spam messages from various instances, sending invites to a Discord server for a Japanese troll organization. This spam was widespread across the Fediverse. The posts frame ap12 from “KuronekoServer” as the culprit behind the operation. Looking at their spam content (in Japanese), it’s obvious that it’s not just any typical spam. An
Balance deployment speed and stability with DORA metrics | Amazon Web Services
AWS DevOps Blog Balance deployment speed and stability with DORA metrics Development teams adopt DevOps practices to increase the speed and quality of their software delivery. The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics provide a popular method to measure progress towards that outcome. Using four key metrics, senior leaders can assess the current state of team maturity and address areas of o
Our Explorations and Experiments Pull Requests have become a central part of many team's workflows. We love how they let us group changes into a single transactional chunk so they can be communicated, discussed and improved. But they also create overhead. It takes time to put them together, review them and sometimes it's hard to even merge them. In the Copilot for Pull Requests project we explored
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has pleaded guilty in a US court under a deal allowing him to walk free following a 14-year legal battle. He entered the formal plea to a single charge in the Northern Mariana Islands, an American territory in the Pacific, two days after leaving a British prison. In return, he was sentenced to time already served and released to fly to his native Australia and be r
An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element | Blog | Chrome for Developers
There are a number of imperative methods for asking for permission to use powerful features like location access in web apps. These methods come with a number of challenges, which is why the Chrome permissions team is experimenting with a new declarative method: a dedicated HTML <permission> element. This element is in origin trial from Chrome 126, and ultimately we hope to standardize it. Imperat
21st February 2024 Last week Google introduced Gemini Pro 1.5, an enormous upgrade to their Gemini series of AI models. Gemini Pro 1.5 has a 1,000,000 token context size. This is huge—previously that record was held by Claude 2.1 (200,000 tokens) and gpt-4-turbo (128,000 tokens)—though the difference in tokenizer implementations between the models means this isn’t a perfectly direct comparison. I’
フルスタックエンジニアについて - nunulkのプログラミング徒然日記
はじめに この記事について 前回書いた記事に何気なく以下のように書いたんですが、読み返したところ自分の中で十分に言語化できてなかったなと感じたので、前回の補遺的な位置づけで、「フルスタックエンジニア」とはなにか、自称することへの忌避感はどこから来ているのか、について考えてみます。 自分としてはあまりフルスタックと名乗りたくない、という気持ちはありまして、 nunulk-blog-to-kill-time.hatenablog.com フルスタックエンジニアとは 前回の記事にも自分で定義を書きましたが、我流でない解釈も載せておくほうがいいと思ったので、Wikipedia にある定義を載せておきます。 A full-stack developer is expected to be able to work in all the layers of the application (front
I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation. Now, in a world where AI is replacing programmers by the minute, taking their jobs and revolutionizing the way we think about code, may
Node.js — Trip report: Node.js collaboration summit (2024 London)
About twice per year, Node.js contributors and community members get together in an unconference called the Node.js collaboration summit. At the summit, we share knowledge about the project and the ecosystem, brainstorm solutions to technical and non-technical issues, make progress in decision-making discussions, and push forward new initiatives. The first collaboration summit of 2024 was held on
The Go Blog Range Over Function Types Ian Lance Taylor 20 August 2024 Introduction This is the blog post version of my talk at GopherCon 2024. Range over function types is a new language feature in the Go 1.23 release. This blog post will explain why we are adding this new feature, what exactly it is, and how to use it. Why? Since Go 1.18 we’ve had the ability to write new generic container types
Vulnerabilities in VPNs: Paper presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024 - The Citizen Lab
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2024 is underway in Bristol, UK and online, a gathering of privacy experts from around the world to discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. On July 16, former Citizen Lab Open Technology Fund (OTF) Information Controls Fellowship Program fellow Benjamin Mixon-Baca will be presenting “Attacking Conn
Useful CSS Tips And Techniques — Smashing Magazine
The times for CSS have probably never been more exciting than today. In this quick read, we’ve got some useful CSS tips and techniques for you that you can apply to your work right away. Let’s dive deeper into self-modifying CSS variables, hanging punctuation, and more. If you’ve been in the web development game for longer, you might recall the days when CSS was utterly confusing and you had to co
When we build features with AI models on the web, we often rely on server-side solutions for larger models. This is especially true for generative AI, where even the smallest models are about thousand times bigger than the median web page size. It's also true for other AI use cases, where models can range from 10s to 100s of megabytes. Since these models aren't shared across websites, each site ha
Shimano Di2 Wireless Protocol: Critical Vulnerabilities Uncovered
Shimano Di2 Wireless Protocol: Critical Vulnerabilities Uncoveredby do son · August 18, 2024 Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, and Northeastern University have uncovered a potential vulnerability in wireless gear-shifting tools used by professional cyclists. This flaw could allow hackers to remotely manipulate a bicycle’s movement during a race. Modern high-end bicycles are
I am starting this new year the same way I ended the last: taking antibiotics because my biological daughter brought home a nasty sinus bug from Carnegie Mellon’s preschool. This was after my first wife betrayed me and gave me COVID. Nevertheless, it is time for my annual screed on last year’s major database happenings and trends since a lot has happened. My goal is to keep my trenchant opinions f
Biden under new pressure from top Democrats as Covid halts campaign
Biden under new pressure from top Democrats as Covid halts campaign President Joe Biden faces new questions over his candidacy in the November election - with his campaign events currently on pause due to a Covid-19 infection. The top two Democrats in the US Congress, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, are both reported to have met him individually to e
Typestate - the new Design Pattern in Swift 5.9 | Swiftology
SwiftologyMonthly articles on advanced Swift topics, functional programming, and software design. written byAlex Ozun This article will teach you 3 ideas: 1. Typestate Design Pattern. 2. The power of generic constraints. 3. Swift 5.9 new Noncopyable types and consuming functions. What is a Typestate design pattern?Typestate is a powerful design pattern that emerged in languages with advanced type
the number of people who have left the rust project due to burnout is shockingly high. the number of people in the project who are close to burnout is also shockingly high. this post is about myself, but it's not just about myself. i'm not going to name names because either you know what i'm talking about, in which case you know at least five people matching this description, or you don't, in whic
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