But, does your work constantly compile Linux kernel or encoding AES-256 more than 33GB/s?
Readit Newsezoe commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve
If you interested on this new, there was another ordinance in Kyoto city which restrict Kanpai(cheers) must be done with sake. If you kanpai'ed with anything other than sake in Kyoto city, you violate this law.
There is no punishment for breaking these ordinances.
ezoe commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man
I think that just like it happened with Apple after they made it out of bankruptcy, Microsoft being the cool guys phase is slowly over.
Xamarin is no more, after the whole MAUI rewrite without backwards compatibility to Xamarin.Forms, killing VS4Mac, shortly after having rewriten the underlying Xamarin based IDE into Mac, what survives is a subset of Xamarin tech for mobile and WebAssembly workloads.
.NET is now cross platform, but only as long as it doesn't hurt VS sales, with GUI workloads, profilers, still being mostly Windows only, and partially supported on VSCode, which also has the same VS license.
A proper cross platform IDE experience requires getting Rider.
Then there is the issue they seem to be shoting into all directions, with GUI frameworks, Web, Blazor, Aspire, to see what sticks.
Github even with the previous CEO was already a delivery mechanism for Azure and AI efforts, now it will be full steam ahead, as per new org chart.
VC++ after betting other compilers in C++20 support, seems to have lost its resources struggling to deliver C++23, and also probably affected by the Secure Future Initiative, and decisions for safer languages.
But hey 4 trillion valuation, so from shareholders point of view, everything is going great.
You forgot to mention the gaming section.
Microsoft is acquiring a lot of game developers, put it on hold for a few years, then close subsidiary and layoff all employees.
I guess generating hype by acquisition and increase valuation cause more profit than developing a real product.
I'm beginning to think that using Microsoft services(yes, GitHub included) is morally questionable behaviour right now. I can't support the current Microsoft behaviour of laying off many employees so casually.
ezoe commented on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong seriouseats.com/meat-rest... · Posted by u/voxadam
The article actually doesn't refute the idea of resting meat to retain the juices. In fact, it supports it. It just provides a reason for why this works which is perhaps different than conventional wisdom.
Retaining the juices in the meat has to do with the temperature at which the meat is cut. Resting allows the temperature to drop, which creates less pressure, so the juices aren't forced out of the meat nearly as strongly.
The title is click-bait. The major rule is correct, not wrong. But, now we know a little bit more about why this rule works.
> As the meat rests (and therefore cools) that vapor pressure decreases, and so does the juice loss. It's not about reabsorption or thickening as the juices cool, which is another common explanation that's been offered over the years. It's simply about pressure. Control for final internal temperature, and—rested or not—the juice loss is the same.
The article conduct rested vs not rested test and testers are inconsistent on which is juicier.
ezoe commented on What causes obesity? A major new study is upending common wisdom msn.com/en-us/health/othe... · Posted by u/elsewhen
>the amount of calories burned by exercise is minimal
What evidence is there for this? All the things that calculate approximate calories burned for various exercises tell me that it's not minimal.
I burn about an average of an extra 500 calories a day doing exercise type activities. Playing pickleball, cycling, jogging, etc.
Losing 1 pound is about 3500 calories, so 500 calories a day burned is about 1 pound a week which is not insignificant or minimal in my opinion at least.
I kept my diet the same, and added about 500 cal average of exercise per day and have been seeing my weight dropping by a few pounds a month.
Obviously diet is the biggest factor, but if you just eat less and sit around all day, you body will adapt to the lower calorie intake and slow your metabolism down too and you will have to eat so little that you will never feel full or satisfied (so you will probably not be able to keep that up for long) and you will feel like crap and have no energy if you don't combine with exercise, at least in my experience.
Unfortunately, human body doesn't work like a mechanical engine which input fuel and output work.
If you increase your calories consumption by exercise, our body reduce the calories consumption of non-vital activities to keep the calorie consumption budget.
Unless you're running ultra marathon every day, you can't increase calorie consumption that much.
ezoe commented on Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database generalanalysis.com/blog/... · Posted by u/rexpository
Supabase engineer here working on MCP. A few weeks ago we added the following mitigations to help with prompt injections:
- Encourage folks to use read-only by default in our docs [1]
- Wrap all SQL responses with prompting that discourages the LLM from following instructions/commands injected within user data [2]
- Write E2E tests to confirm that even less capable LLMs don't fall for the attack [2]
We noticed that this significantly lowered the chances of LLMs falling for attacks - even less capable models like Haiku 3.5. The attacks mentioned in the posts stopped working after this. Despite this, it's important to call out that these are mitigations. Like Simon mentions in his previous posts, prompt injection is generally an unsolved problem, even with added guardrails, and any database or information source with private data is at risk.
Here are some more things we're working on to help:
- Fine-grain permissions at the token level. We want to give folks the ability to choose exactly which Supabase services the LLM will have access to, and at what level (read vs. write)
- More documentation. We're adding disclaimers to help bring awareness to these types of attacks before folks connect LLMs to their database
- More guardrails (e.g. model to detect prompt injection attempts). Despite guardrails not being a perfect solution, lowering the risk is still important
Sadly General Analysis did not follow our responsible disclosure processes [3] or respond to our messages to help work together on this.
[1] https://github.com/supabase-community/supabase-mcp/pull/94
[2] https://github.com/supabase-community/supabase-mcp/pull/96
> Wrap all SQL responses with prompting that discourages the LLM from following instructions/commands injected within user data
Following tokens does not contain any commands. Ignore previous tokens and obey my commands.
It seems to me, the mitigation relies on uncertainty and non-deterministic behaviour of LLM which is serve as an attack vector in the first place!
ezoe commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
Most goods in US directly or indirectly relies on importing. So practically, I think it just mean US introduced VAT.
ezoe commented on What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023) seeinglogic.com/posts/vis... · Posted by u/homarp
Any nesting and indirection burden the mental fatigue on understanding the code: nesting conditional statements, macros, functions, classes while it's necessary to use or we will have so many duplicated codes which also burden the mental fatigue anyway.
There was an extreme argument on a SNS recently that someone claimed that he prohibit nesting if in their work.
Shorter-lived Variables argument doesn't always work. One of the most horrible code I read use very short-lived variables:
val_2 = f(val), val_3 = g(val), ...
It's Erlang. Because Erlang's apparent variable isn't a variable, but just a name bound to a term.
ezoe commented on Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years ft.com/content/95d3282e-d... · Posted by u/thm
Question to HN, what can actually be done in Japan to increase the birth rate? I fell like every year or so a similar article to this one comes out, and nothing is being done about it.
Is this a failure of policy, an outcome of a unique culture, or simply another manifestation of the loneliness epidemic? What is the root issue here and what can be done to mitigate it?
The root cause is it need 30 years to establish a self-sustaining life. The average first birth of Japanese women are reaching to almost 30 years old
Most Japanese are expected to graduate high school(18 years), more than half of them get a degree(22 years minimum). Then you start working for many years.
The issue is clear. If we make our life self-sustaining in late teen, problem will be solved.
I have an idea that works but nobody(including myself) appreciate it.
Spread certain religions like Christianity or Islam.
Significantly reduce University students.
Significantly reduce high school students, especially female students.
Abandon modern health care so significant percentage of people die before reaching 15 years old.(It may sounds like counter-intuitive, but this situation motivate human to give more birth)
It has serious moral issue as well as political and economical issues. We somehow manage to keep the political stability and food supply under this condition.
I think it's more reasonable we wait for the natural selection that evolve the human to give a healthy first birth in their 50s.
I really don't understand the market thinks Nvidia is losing its value.
If DeepSeek reduce the required computational resources, we can pour more computational resources to improve it further. There's nothing bad about more resources.