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The Annotated Transformer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 04:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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AI doesn’t belong in journaling

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-03 15:30:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. In July 2023, I deleted the Day One journaling app from my phone and laptop. It was perhaps the best thing I’ve done as a lifelong diarist. The decision was prompted by Apple announcing its Journal app at WWDC that year. In that keynote, Apple said it would use “on-device machine learning” to provide prompts based on the content in y

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Tesla could have avoided that $242.5M Autopilot verdict, filings show

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-11-04 02:32:47

Months before a jury awarded a $242.5 million verdict against Tesla over its culpability in a 2019 fatal crash, the automaker had a chance to settle for $60 million. Instead, Tesla rejected that offer, according to new legal filings that were first reported by Reuters. The settlement proposal, which was made in May, was disclosed in a filing that requested Tesla cover legal fees for the plaintiffs in the case. Earlier this month, a jury in federal court in Miami found Tesla partly to blame f

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Imgur protest covers the front page in anti-MediaLab memes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 06:55:03

Despite all the division and controversy rife in the modern era, sometimes the Internet does manage to collectively agree on something. Right now, they agree that they hate Imgur parent company MediaLab. After being acquired by MediaLab in 2021, the once famously open-to-anything image-sharing service began placing restrictions on content in 2023. More recently, the site has experienced service issues, including problems with notifications. Many members of the Imgur community have claimed that

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 26, #1529

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 04:00:02

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

news.ycombinator.com Paul Arnold 2025-11-04 10:17:44

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Dataset characterization and measures of reading. Credit: iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113288 If you love nothing more than devouring a page-turner in your free time, you're becoming a rare breed. Reading for pleasure among adults in the United States has fallen dramatically in the last two decades. A n

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Make the Easy Change Hard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 10:40:04

I'd say this is a setup for a joke later on in the blog post, except the joke doesn't even make sense, so I don't really know what this is. Generated by ChatGPT. There’s a semi-well-known adage in software development that says when you have a hard code change, you should “first make the hard change easy, and then make the easy change.” In other words, refactor the code (or do whatever else you need to do) to simplify the change you’re trying to make before trying to make the change. This is es

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Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser Had a Major Security Vulnerability

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 11:22:06

Comet, Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser, recently suffered from a significant security vulnerability, according to a blog post last week from Brave, a competing web browser company. The vulnerability has since been fixed, but it points to the challenges of incorporating large language models into web browsers. Unlike traditional web browsers, Comet has an AI assistant built in. This assistant can scan the page you're looking at, summarize its contents or perform tasks for you. The proble

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Ether slides to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-04 16:09:16

Ether tumbled to start the week, erasing gains from its Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. On Monday, the price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 8% to $4,431.60, according to Coin Metrics. On Sunday, it rose to an all-time high of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier record Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin fell 2% to $110,531.00, its lowest level since July. The flagship cryptocurrency hit its most recent record of $124,496 on Aug.

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Want a subscription-free, Oura-like smart ring? You need act fast. Here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-04 16:36:00

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands i

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How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Marty Haught 2025-11-04 14:02:51

by Marty Haught Recently, Socket.dev published research highlighting malicious gems designed to steal social media credentials. We wanted to use this as an opportunity to share more about how RubyGems.org security operates, how we proactively handled this incident (and others), and the work our team is doing each day to keep the ecosystem safe. How We Detect Malicious Gems RubyGems.org security uses a proactive and multi-layered approach: 1. Automated detection: Every gem upload is analyzed

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Hasbro’s Great ‘Star Wars’ SDCC Figures Are Going to Be Easier to Get—But With Some Big Caveats

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-04 16:15:30

Earlier this summer, Hasbro wowed SDCC with an exclusive Star Wars two-pack celebrating Revenge of the Sith‘s 20th anniversary. The good news is, if you just want the figures that were included of Anakin and Obi-Wan, they’re coming. The bad news is… well, you’re losing a lot in the process if you missed out on the now-sold-out set. Over the weekend at Fan Expo Canada, Hasbro confirmed that the newly updated Black Series figures of Anakin and Obi-Wan that were first released in the SDCC-exclusiv

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AirPods Pro 3 just got the launch update we were all hoping for: report

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-04 20:39:24

Reporting around AirPods Pro 3 launch timing has been all over the place in the last year, but the latest update from Bloomberg offers very good news for those waiting for a new model. AirPods Pro 3 are coming this fall, per Mark Gurman In his Power On newsletter over the weekend, Mark Gurman shared an overview of what to expect from Apple’s product launches this fall. Most of what he shared focused on products we’ve heard were coming already, but there was one exciting addition: new AirPods P

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Oura's biggest smart ring rivals were just banned in the US - but you can still buy them (for now)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-05 02:23:27

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands

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This rumored Apple Watch feature could fix one of my biggest unlocking annoyances

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-05 06:11:02

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple could be toying with Touch ID on the Apple Watch. It will probably not arrive on the smartwatches Apple unveils next month. Touch ID is part of a larger Apple Watch upgrade that could be coming in 2026. You might be unlocking your next Apple Watch with a biometric Touch ID, according to MacWorld. The publication found internal software that suggests Touch ID could be coming to future watc

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Changing these 6 settings on my Samsung TV greatly improved the performance

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-05 06:25:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: Samsung is giving away free 65-inch TVs right now - here's how to get one I've been guilty of it. A

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A visual introduction to big O notation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 14:39:36

Big O notation is a way of describing the performance of a function without using time. Rather than timing a function from start to finish, big O describes how the time grows as the input size increases. It is used to help understand how programs will perform across a range of inputs. In this post I'm going to cover 4 frequently-used categories of big O notation: constant, logarithmic, linear, and quadratic. Don't worry if these words mean nothing to you right now. I'm going to talk about them

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This Orange Shark Is the Result of a Rare Genetic Double Whammy

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-05 11:50:14

The depths of the Caribbean host a spectacular array of marine life—including this nurse shark featuring vivid orange scales and cloudy white eyes. Last year, anglers on a fishing trip near Costa Rica with Parisima Domus Dei, a tourist company, reeled in what looked like a giant goldfish with shark-like chompers. After snapping some photos of the creature—about 6 feet (1.8 meters)—the fishermen let it go, later describing their strange encounter to marine experts. The researchers concluded tha

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Ether pulls back to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-05 16:32:44

Ether is pulling back to start the week, after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. On Monday, the price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 4% to $4,631.61, according to Coin Metrics, trading off its lows of the day. On Sunday, it rose to a fresh record of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin was little changed at $112,488.80. Over the weekend, it dropped to $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. The flagshi

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Just bought a new Galaxy foldable? Watch out for this alert-hiding bug

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 16:40:21

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 suffer from a Do Not Disturb bug. Custom Do Not Disturb settings can reset automatically, removing your call or notification filters. A fix exists for the Galaxy S25 series in One UI 8 beta 5, but not yet for the Fold 7 or Flip 7. When you buy a flagship Samsung phone, the minimum you expect is smooth sailing with the core functionality. Still, early Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 owners might want to double-check th

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How a Meta partnership with Midjourney could inject more AI into future products

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-05 16:46:00

Lester Mapp/ZDNET via Midjourney Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta is partnering with AI start-up Midjourney. It's the latest move in Meta's rapid transformation to keep up in the AI race. Midjourney will remain independent, according to its CEO. Meta is partnering with Midjourney as part of its ongoing effort to win the AI race. The collaboration will allow Meta to integrate Midjourney's "aesthetic technology" into future models and products

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What Is the Magnetic Constant, and Why Does It Matter?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-04 05:30:00

This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you can derive the third. How do physicists deal with this? We define the speed of light as exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. (How do we know it’s exact? Because we define a meter as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.) Then we measure the magnetic constant (μ 0 ) and use that value along with the speed of light to calculate the electric constant (ε 0 ). Maybe that seems like cheating, but to

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Next set of VC judges locked in for Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-11-05 21:00:00

The Startup Battlefield 2025 judging panel is getting even stronger. Our first wave of VCs brought serious firepower, and now we’re adding more top investors who will grill founders, unpack the big questions, and help crown this year’s $100,000 champion at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 27–29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Like the legendary investors who’ve judged in years past, this next group brings the insight, experience, and instincts that can change a founder’s trajectory in just one Q&A.

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New survey suggests Google has work to do with Pixel 10’s Pro Res Zoom

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 02:27:40

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The Google Pixel 10 Pro phones introduced a Pro Res Zoom feature for improved long-range zoom. Google says this uses a diffusion-based AI model to effectively generate details. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google Search to support us and make sure you never miss our latest exclusive reports, expert analysis, and much more. Some early Pro Res Zoom samples dropped online last week, giving us a first look a

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This smart display is the best home security companion I've ever used

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-06 02:35:00

Eufy Security E10 Smart Display ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Security E10 Smart Display is available for $200. This smart display shows you the history and current status of your security system and works as a control panel with real-time alerts. The E10 Smart Display only works with Eufy Security devices, so it's not compatible with other security cameras or meant to be a smart home hub. View now at Amazon View now at Eufy more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on G

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FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-04 00:21:32

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson signed the letter sent to large American companies like Akamai, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, GoDaddy, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, Slack, and X (Twitter). Ferguson stresses that weakening data security at the request of foreign

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New Android malware poses as antivirus from Russian intelligence agency

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-05 04:08:18

A new Android malware posing as an antivirus tool software created by Russia's Federal Security Services agency (FSB) is being used to target executives of Russian businesses. In a new report from Russian mobile security firm Dr. Web, researchers track the new spyware as 'Android.Backdoor.916.origin,' finding no links to known malware families. Among its various capabilities, the malware can snoop on conversations, stream from the phone's camera, log user input with a keylogger, or exfiltrate

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Ether erases gains from Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-06 17:33:29

Ether is pulling back to start the week, after hitting a fresh record over the weekend. The price of the second largest cryptocurrency fell 6% to $4,548.32 on Monday, according to Coin Metrics. On Sunday, it rose to a fresh record of $4,954.81, after hitting an earlier all-time high Friday for the first time since 2021. Meanwhile, bitcoin was last lower by more than 1% at $111,501.74. Over the weekend, it dropped to $110,779.01, its lowest level since July 10. The flagship cryptocurrency hit i

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The best air purifier for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 15:01:28

The air in our homes can be five times more polluted than outdoor air. Energy-efficient homes are designed to be tightly sealed, too, so they trap more pollutants inside. Cooking emissions, cleaning chemicals and fragrances all contribute to less-than-healthy air. Pets, smoke and off-gassing furniture do their part as well. If the air quality outside is good, the best thing to do is open up your windows for at least 15 minutes a day. But if wildfires, car pollution, or high pollen counts prevent

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Google tests QR code verification for text messages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 17:43:57

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you're communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, 9to5Google reports. The feature is currently available in beta. An end-to-end encryption card isn't anything new, but verifying the encryption meant seeing an 80-digit code you could compare. Now, you'll still go Google Messages, tap their name and then go to their details page. But, instead, there will

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The Annotated Transformer

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Imgur protest covers the front page in anti-MediaLab memes

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 26, #1529

Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

Make the Easy Change Hard

Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser Had a Major Security Vulnerability

Ether slides to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

Want a subscription-free, Oura-like smart ring? You need act fast. Here's why

How RubyGems.org protects OSS infrastructure

Hasbro’s Great ‘Star Wars’ SDCC Figures Are Going to Be Easier to Get—But With Some Big Caveats

AirPods Pro 3 just got the launch update we were all hoping for: report

Oura's biggest smart ring rivals were just banned in the US - but you can still buy them (for now)

This rumored Apple Watch feature could fix one of my biggest unlocking annoyances

Changing these 6 settings on my Samsung TV greatly improved the performance

A visual introduction to big O notation

This Orange Shark Is the Result of a Rare Genetic Double Whammy

Ether pulls back to start the week after hitting a fresh record near $5,000

Just bought a new Galaxy foldable? Watch out for this alert-hiding bug

How a Meta partnership with Midjourney could inject more AI into future products

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New Android malware poses as antivirus from Russian intelligence agency

Ether erases gains from Jackson Hole rally after hitting a fresh record over the weekend

The best air purifier for 2025

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