Interesting use of templates for markdown based legal documents. Probably got a few ideas on how to use this...

That shows one of the issues of the kind of centralization IoT as currently done pushes for. Breach in one company? Plenty more people impacted...

Best part of the article is probably the stated motives:
"Kottmann said their reasons for hacking are “lots of curiosity, fighting for freedom of information and against intellectual property, a huge dose of anti-capitalism, a hint of anarchism -- and it’s also just too much fun not to do it.”"

This looks like a very interesting board to play with. It's a bit on the pricey range but other than that... Nice specs.

It looks like an interesting JS framework. I'm not a huge fan of the big ones which force on you how to structure everything... the apparently minimalist nature of that one feels fairly appealing. Of course need to find the contexts where is works and the ones where it doesn't.

Interesting account on the recent research around self-supervised learning. In my opinion this is still the early days but already gives some interesting results. A good reminder for me to read up more on the energy-based models. :-)

A good summary and reminder on how complicated something as mundane as this can be. From the callee you never quite know what it'll end up being, it's the call site which matters most.

I keep having a love/hate relationship with Emacs and thus I tend to stick to Vim. But since everyone is not me and I might revisit the question at some point. Let's have a good path to transition. :-)

Interesting, I didn't know SQLite could have R-Tree indices. This can come in handy for three dimensions or geospatial problems.

Do you ever need to order items stored in SQL? There are ways to do it right and ways to do it wrong. Do it right and pick something meaningful for your case. This article does a good job at listing the typical approaches.

A good reminder to get off social media and mainly use RSS again. Also proposes a bunch of good tools to work with RSS feeds including quite a few high quality free software ones. :-)

Now that looks like a very fun decide for hackers. I definitely want one. :-)

Interesting conversation of the growing pains around the introduction of async/await in Rust.

Very interesting work on the use of sparse neural networks for faster inference. This is a good way to run originally larger models with less CPU and memory penalty than using the original model while retaining result quality.

Interestingly it's likely we'll see more of those shortages in the future, probably in cycles and not only for cars. In the end this is mainly because the access to the raw materials to make semiconductors is becoming harder. As more parts of our society make things "smarter" there will be more competition from different industries to get access to those semiconductors.

Interesting discussion... could people go on strike toward providing data to big tech to demand change? At that point it seems to me more like an interesting thought experiment than something really doable... Probably worth monitoring where the conversation goes.

Fascinating findings around artificial multimodal neurons. Especially interesting is how they encode information but also how they open the door to new attacks to the corresponding neural networks.

Funny way to recall some of the odd complexity classes. :-)

So talking about the devil being in the details... That confirms profiling is still very much in the picture (unsurprisingly) but more disturbing:

• this has implications which creates new venues for easier fingerprinting (so extra risks!)
• this is in fact not that hard to cross-reference cohort and user identity (oops, wasn't it main initial motive to prevent this?)
• thus, this will help with monitoring behavior changes over time

And of course that's to be added to the fact that targeted advertising is very much not going away. FLoC or third party cookies... pick your poison I guess?

Interesting comparison even though the conclusion is slightly unsurprising: Pandas is slower but more convenient, Rust is fast, consumes less memory but more work is involved. At least this gives a few indications on what type of APIs could be added to Rust to ease some things. It also indicates that Pandas can be great to develop the pipeline with then a switch to Rust when this needs to be optimized for higher volumes of data.

Fascinating account on mental models and then statistical power

It starts with how a flawed mental model (coming from Facebook's founder) about identity and social role became imposed on others.

Then it continues on the mental model we tend to apply to vaccines. That shows again how bad we are at intuitively grasping statistics and their application. They do require an effort even when you're trained at them.