4 Exploits, 1 bug: exploiting cve-2024-20017 4 different ways
introduction Well, here we are. This post was meant to be finished around March of this year to coincide with the publication of the vulnerability I’m going to be writing about, CVE-2024-20017. Unfortunately, this also ended up coinciding with me moving, starting a new job, and getting really busy at said job, so here we […]
Kraftful (YC S19) is hiring a founder engineer
At Kraftful, we’re building the copilot for product teams. Our mission is to help product builders leverage LLMs to listen to users at scale and actively involve them in the dev process. As one of the inaugural alpha users of GPT-3, we built first prototype of Kraftful copilot in early 2020. As LLMs advanced, we […]
What 10k Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don’t Ship Fast
I’ve been an engineer for over 7 years now. I have worked on countless projects in backend, frontend, and DevOps. I don’t consider myself a great engineer; there are people out there who are not only smarter but also more experienced. Over the years, I have learned some tricks to help me climb the programming […]
Governor Newsom signs landmark bill to protect kids from social media addiction
Sep 20, 2024 SACRAMENTO – Moving to protect the health and well-being of youth on digital platforms, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed SB 976 by Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), which prohibits online platforms from knowingly providing an addictive feed to a minor without parental consent. The bill also prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors […]
Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice
A study on mice found that adding omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids to their diets effectively counteracts depressive and anxiety-like behaviors induced by stress. Not only did the supplementation reduce these stress-induced symptoms, but it also lowered anxiety levels in mice that were not exposed to stress. These findings, published in Neurobiology of Stress, suggest that […]
How to manage oncall as an engineering manager?
As a relatively new engineering manager, I oversee a team handling a moderate volume of on-call issues (typically 4-5 per week). In addition to managing production incidents, our on-call responsibilities extend to monitoring application and infrastructure alerts. The challenge I’m currently facing is ensuring that our on-call engineers don’t have sufficient time to focus on […]
The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere
21 Sep 2024 3 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. The Palletrone responds to your touch and can carry cargo across any terrain. Seoul Tech Where’s your flying car? I’m sorry to say that I have no idea. But here’s something that is somewhat similar, in that it flies, transports things, and […]
The Visualization of Differential Forms
This post talks about visualization of differential forms on differential manifolds. It is aimed at a reader who is in the process of learning about differential forms (or who already has), but who has not seen any visual intuition for what they are. This post has as a prerequisite this post on the visualization of […]
Social Initiation
Whether or not you have explicitly exchanged greetings, if you are within conversational distance (see proximity, below), making an unobjectionable comment is a way of showing that you are open to having a conversation, without placing too much of a demand on the person you make the comment to. That is, the person can choose […]
Scaling up linear programming with PDLP
Classic linear programming (LP) problems are one of the most foundational problems in computer science and operations research. With extensive applications across numerous sectors of the global economy, such as manufacturing, networking, and other fields, LP has been the cornerstone of mathematical programming and has significantly influenced the development of today’s sophisticated modeling and algorithmic […]