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The Ratchet Effect: How Engineers Build Reputation at Big Tech

2025-01-08

Engineer reputation at large tech companies isn't solely about technical skill; it's a gradual process. Starting with low-level tasks, engineers build trust and gain access to higher-profile projects through consistent success. This "ratchet effect" makes reputation slow to change. Even mistakes can be overcome with continued delivery. However, repeated failures lead to a downward spiral. The author advises new hires to focus on smaller projects to build a solid reputation, avoiding risky attempts to jump to high-profile work immediately.

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(www.seangoedecke.com)
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SWE-bench: Can LLMs Solve Real-World GitHub Issues?

2025-01-08
SWE-bench: Can LLMs Solve Real-World GitHub Issues?

SWE-bench is a benchmark dataset evaluating large language models' ability to automatically resolve real-world GitHub issues. Researchers compiled 2,294 Issue-Pull Request pairs from 12 popular Python repositories, validating solutions via unit tests. The latest leaderboard showcases various models achieving varying success rates, with some exceeding 50% resolution. The project provides resources including a lite version and pre-trained models for easier evaluation and reproducibility.

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(www.swebench.com)
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LA Wildfires Force Mass Evacuations, NASA JPL Shuts Down

2025-01-08
LA Wildfires Force Mass Evacuations, NASA JPL Shuts Down

Massive wildfires raging across Los Angeles County have forced tens of thousands to evacuate, leading to the closure of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Fueled by strong winds, the fires have consumed thousands of acres, resulting in casualties and widespread property damage. California's governor has declared a state of emergency. While JPL itself remains undamaged, many staff have evacuated their homes, with some reporting significant losses. The disaster highlights the severity of climate change and raises concerns about the safety of invaluable scientific data and equipment.

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(www.theregister.com)
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“More Doctors Smoke Camels”: A Masterclass in Tobacco Advertising Deception

2025-01-08

From 1940 to 1949, R.J. Reynolds launched the "More Doctors Smoke Camels" campaign, employing idealized physician imagery to subtly suggest safety. The doctors depicted were actors, cleverly sidestepping contemporary medical ethics. Ads appeared in publications like the Journal of the American Medical Association, and skewed surveys conducted at medical conventions—often involving handing out free cigarettes—furthered the deceptive claim. This campaign reveals how the tobacco industry manipulated information and exploited trust to mislead the public.

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(tobacco.stanford.edu)
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AT&T Promises Bill Credits After Massive Outage

2025-01-08
AT&T Promises Bill Credits After Massive Outage

Following a major network outage last year caused by a botched update, AT&T is now promising full-day bill credits for future outages. The credits apply to wireless outages lasting at least 60 minutes affecting 10 or more cell towers, and fiber outages lasting at least 20 minutes (using an AT&T-provided gateway). However, the promise has caveats, excluding events like natural disasters or third-party issues. AT&T retains sole discretion on credit eligibility, raising concerns about service reliability and transparency in handling such incidents.

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(arstechnica.com)
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White House Unveils Cyber Trust Mark for IoT Devices

2025-01-08
White House Unveils Cyber Trust Mark for IoT Devices

The White House launched a new labeling program, the "Cyber Trust Mark," to help consumers identify more secure internet of things (IoT) devices. Similar to the Energy Star label, the Cyber Trust Mark signifies that a device meets certain government-vetted cybersecurity standards set by NIST. UL Solutions is the primary administrator, with major retailers like Amazon and Best Buy assisting in consumer education. The government plans to mandate procurement of devices with this mark by 2027, driving the IoT market towards improved security.

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(www.nextgov.com)
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Multiplicative Infinitesimals: A New Calculus Approach

2025-01-08
Multiplicative Infinitesimals: A New Calculus Approach

This paper introduces a new concept called "multiplicative infinitesimals," analogous to traditional additive infinitesimals, to construct a new calculus system. Unlike traditional calculus based on differences, multiplicative calculus is based on quotients, using a Leibniz-like notation but with 'q' instead of 'd', representing a multiplicative perturbation of an expression. The author establishes the relationship between 'q' and 'd' through logarithmic and exponential operations and applies it to elasticity theory and multiplicative derivative calculations. This approach may offer new solutions to problems intractable with traditional methods.

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(github.com)
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Samsung Expanding AI Subscription Service to Smartphones and Robots

2025-01-08
Samsung Expanding AI Subscription Service to Smartphones and Robots

Samsung is set to roll out its AI subscription service next month, initially launched last December in South Korea for select home appliances. This service will now expand to Galaxy phones and the upcoming Ballie AI robot. Users can subscribe monthly for AI features and optional repair services at a lower upfront cost. It's unclear if the service will expand beyond South Korea, but more information may be revealed at Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event in San Jose, California on January 22nd. This expansion signals Samsung's aggressive exploration of AI subscription models in both smart home and mobile device sectors.

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(www.theverge.com)
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Stack Overflow's Decline: The ChatGPT Impact and Uncertain Future

2025-01-08
Stack Overflow's Decline: The ChatGPT Impact and Uncertain Future

A GitHub data analysis reveals a staggering 70.7% drop in new questions on Stack Overflow from March 2023 to December 2024, plummeting from 87,105 to 25,566. This correlates strongly with the rise of ChatGPT; since its launch, Stack Overflow has seen nearly 83,000 fewer questions. The author, a top Stack Overflow contributor, describes their own experience of having well-formatted questions quickly closed, highlighting a potential key factor in the platform's decline. The drastic decrease in question volume suggests a concerning trajectory, mirroring levels seen in 2009 shortly after launch, hinting at a potential lifespan of less than a year.

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(gist.github.com)
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Ten Bold Ideas for the Future of Programming Languages

2025-01-08

A seasoned programmer proposes ten innovative ideas for the future of programming languages, covering aspects such as function call mechanisms, capability programming, production-level features, semi-dynamic languages, persistent data stores, truly relational languages, modular monoliths, and modular linting. These ideas aren't entirely novel but rather refinements and integrations of existing concepts, aiming to improve programming efficiency and code quality. The article explores incorporating best practices like structured logging and metrics gathering into the language itself, and enhancing the performance of dynamic languages.

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(jerf.org)
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NeuralSVG: Implicit Neural Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation

2025-01-08
NeuralSVG: Implicit Neural Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation

NeuralSVG generates vector graphics from text prompts, utilizing an implicit neural representation (similar to NeRFs) encoded into a small MLP network and optimized using Score Distillation Sampling (SDS). A dropout-based regularization technique ensures ordered, editable shapes with a layered structure. The model supports dynamic control over aspects like background color and aspect ratio, all from a single learned representation. Experiments show NeuralSVG outperforms existing methods in generating structured and flexible SVGs.

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(sagipolaczek.github.io)
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Microsoft Ends OneDrive's Unlicensed Free Ride

2025-01-08
Microsoft Ends OneDrive's Unlicensed Free Ride

Microsoft is closing a loophole that allowed users to store data for free in unlicensed OneDrive accounts. Starting January 27th, 2025, accounts unlicensed for over 93 days will have their data moved to the recycle bin or archived. Data remains in the recycle bin for 93 days before permanent deletion. Organizations needing to reactivate accounts face a $0.60/GB reactivation fee and a $0.05/GB monthly fee. This move addresses security and compliance concerns.

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(www.theregister.com)
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A Pixel Parable: Behind the Scenes at Lucasfilm Games

2025-01-08
A Pixel Parable: Behind the Scenes at Lucasfilm Games

This article recounts the journey of Mark, an illustrator with no prior gaming experience, at Lucasfilm Games. Through sheer luck and talent, he transforms from a computer novice into a key member of the studio, ultimately impacting the gaming industry with his unique pixel-handling techniques. The narrative is full of dramatic twists and turns, showcasing the hardships and creativity of early game development, and the blossoming of individual talent under restrictive conditions.

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(olano.dev)
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Bringing SerenityOS to Real Hardware: A Chromebook Reverse Engineering Odyssey

2025-01-08

To run SerenityOS on real hardware, the author bought a cheap Chromebook. However, the Chromebook's Cr50 debugging functionality failed, forcing the author to manually solder a Raspberry Pi Pico to the motherboard for serial debugging. This involved bypassing the Cr50 security chip's write protection and writing a custom SPI flash program. The author successfully booted SerenityOS on the Chromebook, but debugging the eMMC driver proved challenging, requiring a deep dive into MMC and SD card protocols and meticulous adjustments to the hardware power control.

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(sdomi.pl)
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Two Dots (YC) Hiring Machine Learning Engineer

2025-01-08
Two Dots (YC) Hiring Machine Learning Engineer

Two Dots, a Y Combinator-backed fintech startup, is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer with a salary of $200K-$250K. They're using AI to revolutionize lending, aiming to prevent future financial crises like 2008. The role involves maintaining machine learning pipelines (document images, natural language, numbers) and requires strong teamwork skills. It's a hybrid role in San Francisco, with 5 days a week in the office.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Run Python in Your Browser Effortlessly with WebAssembly

2025-01-08

Run Python code directly in your browser using the power of WebAssembly! This post details how Pyodide, an open-source project, enables running Python in the browser. The author successfully ported MarkItDown, a Python program converting Office files to Markdown, to a browser-based tool. Pyodide supports nearly all Python syntax and many popular packages, offering a robust JavaScript/Python interoperability interface. Overcoming file transfer and dependency installation challenges, the author created a fully functional browser-based MarkItDown tool, highlighting WebAssembly's transformative potential for browser-based applications.

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(kai.bi)
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MoviePass Parent Company CEO Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud

2025-01-08
MoviePass Parent Company CEO Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud

Theodore Farnsworth, former CEO of Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc. (HMNY), the parent company of MoviePass, pleaded guilty to securities fraud. He admitted to a scheme to defraud investors in both HMNY and Vinco Ventures Inc. by misrepresenting MoviePass's "unlimited" subscription model as profitable and falsely claiming the use of AI technology to boost HMNY's stock price. This case, one of the Justice Department's first "AI washing" cases, highlights the risks of using AI claims to perpetrate fraud.

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(www.justice.gov)
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Belshazzar's Clock: A DIY Luminous Timepiece

2025-01-08

The author details the creation of 'Belshazzar's Clock', a luminous night clock built using luminous paint, UV LEDs, and a stepper motor. The project utilizes a 100mm diameter duct, 3D-printed parts, and an ESP32C3 microcontroller. Challenges encountered included inconsistent ESP32C3 clone quality and WiFi power consumption issues. Future improvements include aesthetic enhancements and a daylight version using photochromic ink. The project's code is open-source.

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(blog.karliner.net)
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Atlas of Space: An Interactive Guide to the Cosmos

2025-01-08

Atlas of Space isn't just a static star chart; it's an immersive, interactive online platform that lets you explore the known universe. It presents the vast data of planets, stars, and galaxies in an intuitive way, providing rich detail. Whether you want to understand the composition of the planets in our solar system or delve into the mysteries of distant galaxies, this platform caters to your curiosity. Zoom in on specific celestial bodies, learn about their size, distance, composition, and embark on a truly immersive journey through space. This is an invaluable resource for astronomy enthusiasts, students, and anyone with a thirst for cosmic knowledge.

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(atlasof.space)
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Nvidia CEO: AI Chip Performance Outpaces Moore's Law

2025-01-08
Nvidia CEO: AI Chip Performance Outpaces Moore's Law

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared at CES 2025 that the company's AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law. He attributed this to Nvidia's ability to simultaneously innovate across the entire stack – architecture, chip, system, libraries, and algorithms. The new GB200 NVL72 data center superchip boasts a 30-40x performance increase in AI inference workloads compared to its predecessor. Huang believes this will lead to lower AI inference costs and further advancements in AI model capabilities.

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(techcrunch.com)
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Nvidia CEO Casts Doubt on Imminent Quantum Computing Breakthrough, Sending Stocks Plunging

2025-01-08
Nvidia CEO Casts Doubt on Imminent Quantum Computing Breakthrough, Sending Stocks Plunging

Shares of IonQ and other quantum computing companies plummeted on Wednesday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that truly 'useful' quantum computers are likely still two decades away. This announcement dampened recent excitement surrounding the field, following a significant breakthrough by Alphabet last month. Stocks like Quantum Computing Inc., D-Wave, and Rigetti saw drops exceeding 30%, highlighting the market's sensitivity to the timeline of quantum computing's practical applications.

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(uk.finance.yahoo.com)
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Fidget: A High-Performance Rust Library for Large-Scale Math Expressions

2025-01-08

Fidget is a Rust library for representing, compiling, and evaluating large-scale math expressions. Primarily designed for implicit surfaces, its flexibility extends to various applications. Architecturally layered, Fidget comprises a frontend (script-to-bytecode), backend (fast, flexible evaluation), and algorithms (rendering and meshing). Its core innovation combines interval arithmetic and trace simplification for efficient handling of massive expressions, further enhanced by JIT compilation. Offering diverse demos including a web-based GUI, Fidget supports automatic differentiation and interval arithmetic.

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(www.mattkeeter.com)
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Michigan's Disruptive Linear Algebra Course: ROB 101

2025-01-08
Michigan's Disruptive Linear Algebra Course: ROB 101

The University of Michigan is launching a revolutionary linear algebra course, ROB 101, for first-year engineering students. The course integrates linear algebra theory with practical application using the Julia programming language, allowing students to solve real-world engineering problems, such as robot navigation mapping, from day one. The hybrid course format offers both online and in-person resources, breaking from traditional engineering math pedagogy and providing early exposure to the practical value of mathematics in engineering.

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(robotics.umich.edu)
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Akamai Exits China's CDN Market

2025-01-08
Akamai Exits China's CDN Market

Akamai announced it will cease offering CDN services in mainland China on June 30, 2026. This isn't due to operational difficulties in China, but rather a strategic shift towards cloud computing and security services, which now account for two-thirds of its revenue. Akamai is recommending its Chinese customers migrate to CDN services offered by Chinese companies like Tencent Cloud and Wangsu Science & Technology, offering support for the transition. This move reflects a shift in Akamai's approach to the Chinese market and highlights the challenges and opportunities faced by global tech companies operating within China.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Surprisingly Usable Word Processors on the Commodore VIC-20

2025-01-08
Surprisingly Usable Word Processors on the Commodore VIC-20

This article explores several surprisingly capable word processors for the Commodore VIC-20, a machine with a notoriously small screen. VICWRITER, with its typewriter-like interface, offers comfortable editing. Quick Brown Fox stands out with 80-column display support and RS-232 communication capabilities. Speedscript impresses with its word wrap and efficient editing commands. Write Now is also briefly mentioned, showcasing the ingenuity of software developers in overcoming hardware limitations.

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(techtinkering.com)
Tech Retro Computing Word Processors

Spooky Quantum Entanglement Found Inside Protons

2025-01-08
Spooky Quantum Entanglement Found Inside Protons

Scientists have used high-energy particle collisions to discover, for the first time, quantum entanglement within individual protons. This 'spooky action at a distance' occurs even at the incredibly small scale of a proton, challenging our understanding of its internal structure. The team employed a 2017-developed technique analyzing the 'messiness' of particle sprays after collisions to detect entanglement. Results showed quarks and gluons are maximally entangled, offering insights into the strong interactions within protons and the building blocks of atomic nuclei. This discovery could significantly impact future research in nuclear physics, such as investigating how the nuclear environment affects entanglement within protons.

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(www.space.com)
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Balcony Solar Power Takes Off in Germany

2025-01-08
Balcony Solar Power Takes Off in Germany

Facing high energy costs, Germans are embracing balcony solar panels in droves. Over 800,000 kits were installed in 2024, a tenfold increase from 2022. These affordable, easy-to-install panels generate electricity even on cloudy days, powering household appliances. Government subsidies and simplified installation procedures have fueled this trend, raising awareness of renewable energy and potentially boosting broader solar adoption.

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(www.france24.com)
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Linux Routing Fundamentals: A Deep Dive into the Kernel's Networking Stack

2025-01-08

This article delves into the intricacies of Linux kernel routing. Linux systems utilize multiple routing tables (local, main, default), consulted sequentially to find matching routes. Key concepts like longest prefix matching, source address selection, and ICMP error handling are explained. The article demonstrates using the iproute2 tool and handling link failures. This detailed exploration of routing tables, rules, and the lookup process provides a solid foundation for understanding advanced Linux routing techniques like policy-based routing, VRFs, and network namespaces.

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(blog.sdn.clinic)
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The Unexpected Birth of the First Microcontroller: It Wasn't Rocket Science, It Was Calculators

2025-01-08
The Unexpected Birth of the First Microcontroller: It Wasn't Rocket Science, It Was Calculators

This article tells the story of the first microcontroller's creation. It wasn't born from a high-tech project, but rather from Texas Instruments engineer Gary Boone's burnout and family issues. To address the need for customized calculator chips, Boone and his colleagues designed the TMS1802NC, a single-chip calculator containing a processor, memory (RAM and ROM), and I/O—essentially the first microcontroller. Released in 1971, it predated the Intel 4004 microprocessor by two months. This unexpected development not only solved Boone's personal problems but also ushered in a new era for microcontrollers.

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(www.eejournal.com)
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