I hacked the Dutch government and all I got was this t-shirt
The NCSC-NL (National Cyber Security Centre – Netherlands) sent me a ‘lousy’ t-shirt on behalf of the Dutch government. Together with the t-shirt was a thank you letter. Thank you for bringing a vulnerability to our attention. Together with vulnerability reporters like you we can increase the resilience of Dutch society in the digital domain […]
Personality Basins
Personality basins are the mental model that I use to reason about humans within their environment. They are an elucidating way to think about many concepts: from modelling why people are they way they are, how they change over time, how mental illnesses and addiction function along with how we should look for their cures, […]
Handle.com (YC W19) Is Hiring
Who We Are Handle.com is a Y Combinator-backed technology company focused on revolutionizing how money flows through the $1.5 trillion U.S. construction industry. We’ve established strong product-market fit, serving some of the largest companies in the industry. Our SaaS solution is essential to daily workflows for our clients, including Fortune 500 and publicly traded companies. […]
PHP 8.4
New DOM API that includes standards-compliant support for parsing HTML5 documents, fixes several long-standing compliance bugs in the behavior of the DOM functionality, and adds several functions to make working with documents more convenient. The new DOM API is available within the Dom namespace. Documents using the new DOM API can be created using the […]
You Exist in the Long Context
Published on November 20, 2024 by Steven Johnson Let’s start with a game. Play as long as you like. When you are ready to step back and reflect on what makes this game possible, scroll down to keep reading. Type “let’s play” to start the game What you’ve just experienced is an interactive adventure based […]
A common urban intersection in the Netherlands
Can urban intersections be designed in such a way that motor traffic, cycling and walking flow smoothly and that the potential conflicts of these very different types of traffic crossing each other’s paths are made less complicated and less dangerous? In my opinion the answer is “yes”. Intersections are most important in making cycling safer […]
A binary tree of all Pythagorean triples
November 20 2024 Tim Richardt Summary I sketch how the stereographic projection of the Stern–Brocot tree forms an ordered binary tree of Pythagorean triples, which can be used to compute best approximations of turn angles of points on the circle and finally trigonometric functions. Before that, I briefly recapitulate the classical enumeration of Pythagorean triples […]
Hyrum’s Law in Golang
I recently stumbled upon an intriguing comment while exploring the Go codebase. “Due to Hyrum’s law, this text cannot be changed.” func (e *MaxBytesError) Error() string { return “http: request body too large” } Prior to this, I had never heard of Hyrum’s law. A quick search revealed that it is a principle named after […]
DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]
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The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction
The Interactive Module consists of an Embedding block and a cross-attention layer, translating keyboard inputs into natural language commands for video generation. For example, pressing W becomes “The car is driving forward” in Forza Horizon 5 or “The man is moving forward and looking up” in Cyberpunk 2077 when combined with upward mouse movement. For […]