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Designing a Fast Concurrent Hash Table

ibraheem.ca

I recently released papaya, a fast and feature-complete concurrent hash table for Rust. In this post...
I recently released papaya, a fast and feature-complete concurrent hash table for Rust. In this post I want to dive into the design and research that went into creating it, as well as why you might consider using it over existing solutions. If you're looking for an overview of papaya, you might find it more useful t...
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Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Conspiracy Theories Thrive

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As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, meteorologists are staying awake for days at a time trying to...
As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, meteorologists are staying awake for days at a time trying to get vital, life-saving information out to the folks who will be affected. That’s their job. But this year, several of them tell Rolling Stone, they’re increasingly having to take time out to quell the nonstop flow o...
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End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage in the Wild: A Broken Ecosystem

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Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debugging

bugsink.com

Klaas van Schelven; October 5 - 7 min read If seeing this image doesn't make you...
Klaas van Schelven; October 5 - 7 min read If seeing this image doesn't make you close the tab, you'll probably make it to the end While working on Bugsink, I spend a lot of time thinking about how Exceptions typically happen, and what factors are helpful (or not) in quickly fixing them. Some of this time is spent w...
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DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

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LLM attacks take just 42 seconds on average, 20% of jailbreaks succeed

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Attacks on large language models (LLMs) take less than a minute to complete on average, and...
Attacks on large language models (LLMs) take less than a minute to complete on average, and leak sensitive data 90% of the time when successful, according to Pillar Security.Pillar’s State of Attacks on GenAI report, published Wednesday, revealed new insights on LLM attacks and jailbreaks, based on telemetry data an...

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U.S. inflation falls to 2.4%, YoY and MoM annualised

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The path to GM: some thoughts on becoming a general manager (2005)

microsoft.com

The recruiting season is getting underway and shortly we’ll be “at a college near you” looking...
The recruiting season is getting underway and shortly we’ll be “at a college near you” looking to connect. I will be at Harvard Business School the first week of October, where I’ll visit some classes and also participate in a career fair. I hope to see some readers there! I met this week with one the managers at Mi...
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Author and Aviator

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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize

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South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature “for her intense...
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm on Thursday. Han, 53, is the firs...

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How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds [video]

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The science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure tracking

empirical.health

Sep 3, 2024 Brandon Ballinger There are many rumors that an upcoming Apple Watch will measure...
Sep 3, 2024 Brandon Ballinger There are many rumors that an upcoming Apple Watch will measure blood pressure; similar features exist on Samsung watches internationally and are likely to come to the US once cleared by the FDA. In 2018, I helped run one of the first studies to show that health sensor data from wearabl...
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America Is Updating Its Nuclear Weapons. The Price: $1.7T

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The U.S. military says America’s nuclear arsenal is outdated and unable to keep up with our...
The U.S. military says America’s nuclear arsenal is outdated and unable to keep up with our adversaries’ modern weapons. To replace it, the country is in the midst of a once-in-a-generation overhaul across 23 states that could exceed $1.7 trillion. But what future are we buying ourselves? And at what cost? To unders...

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Hurricanes Cause Millions More Deaths Than Reported

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The Warlord of Saturn's Moons

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Eleanor Arnason (b. 1942) From The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women...
Eleanor Arnason (b. 1942) From The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women Idea House II, 1947: kitchen, breakfast bar, and dining area. (Hennepin County Library via Docomomo US/MN) Located in Minneapolis on the grounds of the Walker Art Center and designed by William Friedman and Hilde Reiss...
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Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people

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Back in the day, people had to cook a hard-boiled egg for a computer mouse (2020)

boredpanda.com

Apparently, kids these days know little about the hardships of life. And one is still as...
Apparently, kids these days know little about the hardships of life. And one is still as vivid as if it happened yesterday. You see, back in the day, people had to cook a hard-boiled egg for a computer mouse every single week in order to scroll up and down that screen. Don’t ask me if it’s true or false, just follow...
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Fatty acids found in meat and poultry may be beneficial to human metabolism

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Thunderbird Android client is K-9 Mail reborn, and it's in solid beta

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The Age of Depopulation

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Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history....
Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it “the age of depopulation.” For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline. But whereas the last implosion was caused by a deadly disease borne by fleas, the coming one will be entirel...
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'Entire ecosystem' of fossils 8.7M years old found under Los Angeles high school

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Marine fossils dating back to as early as 8.7m years ago have been uncovered beneath a...
Marine fossils dating back to as early as 8.7m years ago have been uncovered beneath a south Los Angeles high school.On Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that researchers had discovered two sites on the campus of San Pedro high school under which fossils including those of a saber-toothed salmon and a megalodon...
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Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = an Hybrid of Word and Excel

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Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom

weirdgloop.org

10 October 2024 · Jonathan Lee Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now...
10 October 2024 · Jonathan Lee Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!) really dig. I also lo...
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