Bulletin for Friday, 23 Dec 2022
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High Scalability (1)
Replit Blog (1)
null program (1)
allegro.tech (1)
Julia Evans (1)
Joel on Software (1)
Kevin Sookocheff (1)
Weaveworks (1)
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (1)
Tech at Meta (1)
Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward (1)
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
Metadata (1)
Stratechery by Ben Thompson (1)
frankdenneman.nl (2)
- How to Create a Windows 11 Bootable USB on Mac OS Monterey
- Unexplored Territory Ep 34 – William Lam Talks Home Labs – Christmas Special
DTN (2)
- New Scouting Tools Bring Integrated Technology to Industry
- The Challenges Of Winter Weather Forecasting
Vallified (2)
- The Equifax Breach Settlement Offer is Real, For Now
- Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims
Computer Things (2)
Timescale Blog (2)
- Year of the Tiger: 12 (and Then Some) Timescale Highlights of 2022
- 12 Days of PostgreSQL Tools and Projects
Earthly Blog (2)
- How to Work with YAML in Python
- Comprehensive guide to Defining Application Routing in Kubernetes Cluster
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (2)
- Your brain on burnout (Brain Science #33)
- GPT has entered the chat (The Changelog #519)
- Big news in Deno Land (JS Party #256)
The CircleCI Blog Feed - CircleCI (3)
- An update on CircleCI's reliability
- CircleCI onboarding toolkit: User-friendly tools to help you ship sooner
- What is platform engineering? A quick introduction
Kuba Filipowski (4)
Blog – Hackaday (4)
- Old Robotic Vacuum Gets a New RC Lease on Life
- 2022 FPV Contest: A Poor Man’s Journey Into FPV
- Arduboy Mini is a Fresh Take on an 8-bit Favorite
- Another Magnetron Teardown
Go (Golang) Programming Blog - Ardan Labs on (4)
- Smart Contracts Using Solidity and Go: Basic Contract
- Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 9
- Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 7
- Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 8
- Microsoft research uncovers new Zerobot capabilities
- Microsoft Intune: 5 endpoint management predictions for 2023
- How to build a secure foundation for identity and access
- Gatekeeper’s Achilles heel: Unearthing a macOS vulnerability
- Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in Q4 2022 Security Analytics Platforms Wave report
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (5)
- Pluralistic: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill (22 Dec 2022)
- Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022)
- Pluralistic: 2023's public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2022)
- Pluralistic: Better failure for social media (19 Dec 2022)
- Pluralistic: The antitrust Twilight Zone (16 Dec 2022)
- Auto-translating "Dive into Deep Learning" with Amazon Translate
- Popular deep-learning book from Amazon authors gets update
- Nine teams selected for Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge
- How a lifelong music student uses melody and lyrics in TTS research
- Controlling formality in machine translation
- Yong Jae Lee is advancing the cutting edge of CV research
Retool Blog (6)
- Generating Poetry with OpenAI's DALL-E and GPT APIs in Retool
- 12 Days of Retool: Eleven Best FIFA World Cup Games
- 12 Days of Retool: Ten Retool Videos
- 12 Days of Retool: Nine Star Wars Movies
- 12 Days of Retool: Eight Bits of Gaming
- What is Operations Software?
- The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2 (part 1)
- I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free
- Best practices to increase the speed for Next.js apps
- Let’s talk about our favorite terminal tools (Ep. 521)
- Use Git tactically
- An honest end-of-year rundown (Ep. 520)
The Cloudflare Blog (10)
- Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review
- One of our most requested features is here: DNS record comments and tags
- Closing out 2022 with our latest Impact Report
- Everything you might have missed during Cloudflare's Impact Week 2022
- How Cloudflare advocates for a better Internet
- The unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
- Introducing Cloudflare's Third Party Code of Conduct
- Helping build a safer Internet by measuring BGP RPKI Route Origin Validation
- The latest from Cloudflare's seventeen Employee Resource Groups
- Working to help the HBCU Smart Cities Challenge
Towards Data Science - Medium (10)
- Statistical Plotting with Julia: VegaLite.jl
- Learn How to Use NeoVim as an IDE
- Understanding Bias-Variance Trade-off from a Bayesian Perspective
- The Carbon Footprint of ChatGPT
- Train YOLO for Object Detection on a Custom Dataset using Python
- Predicting School Holidays from BBC iPlayer Viewing
- How to Properly Test Your Data Models
- How to Take Your SQL from Zero to Data Scientist Level — Part 3/3
- The 2022 Data Science Articles You (Absolutely) Shouldn’t Miss
- ML Basics (Part-3): Artificial Neural Networks
Cloud Blog (20)
- Optimize and scale your startup - A look into the Build Series
- Deutsche Bank, Wake Technical Community College, and Google Cloud are building a cloud talent pipeline in North Carolina
- Helping South Bend residents build cloud computing skills
- Document AI adds three new capabilities to its OCR engine
- 2022 was a year spent turning sustainable ambitions into action
- Understanding Cloud Load Balancing for hybrid and multicloud environments
- New control plane connectivity and isolation options for your GKE clusters
- Cloud CISO Perspectives: December 2022
- Inspiring the next generation of cloud professionals with Google’s Career Readiness Program
- 2022 Research Innovators celebrate achievements as applications open for 2023
- Filestore Enterprise Multishares for GKE now generally available
- Google Cloud wrapped: Top 22 news stories of 2022, according to you
- A motorcycle accident left Googler Yariv Adan with chronic pain—it’s made him an advocate for empathy and equity
- The top 8 products startups use on Google Cloud
- ICYMI: Security Talks goes deep on SolarWinds, Chrome, Zero Trust, and today’s toughest SOC challenges
- IT prediction: In the future, anyone can be a developer
- What’s new with Google Cloud
- Collateral IT: Optimizing HSBC asset allocation with Google Cloud
- IT prediction: Barriers between transactional and analytical workloads fall away
- Google Cloud Memorystore for Redis Best Practices - Tips for a highly performant and worry-free deployment
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The opening keynote I gave with Laura Maguire at SRECon EMEA is now available online: (BACK TO TOP)
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DALL-E picture generated from the answer. I was curious, given all the ChatGPT love, what it would make of some of our favorite topics. I was both impressed and unimpressed. Impressed. ChatGPT instantly generated an response that might make a good answer in a Miss Universe contest. You know, the kind of answer delivered with a radiant smile calculated to offend no one yet still sounds comprehensive and deep. Unimpressed. The answers are a mile wide and an inch deep. There's not a lot of insight. (BACK TO TOP)
Today we're super excited to announce the launch of one of our most requested features to date. For almost as long as Replit has been around, people in the community have been asking for a way to create and share their very own Custom Themes! Well now you can. With Custom Themes, you can truly make Replit yours by styling everything from the app's colors, both in the IDE and across the site, to the syntax highlighting in your code. Happy theming! (BACK TO TOP)
This article was discussed on Hacker News . The Quite OK Image (QOI) format was announced late last year and finalized into a specification a month later. Initially dismissive, a revisit has shifted my opinion to impressed. The format hits a sweet spot in the trade-off space between complexity, speed, and compression ratio. Also considering its alpha channel support, QOI has become my default choice for embedded image assets. It’s not perfect, but at the very least it’s a solid foundation.g..... (BACK TO TOP)
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Saira joined our Bangalore site reliability engineering (SRE) team to tackle large-scale, site engineering challenges and grow. She highlights for us the impactful work she found here — from ushering in LinkedIn’s next-generation, server query system that runs over a fleet of 350,000 servers, to mentoring the next generation of female engineers: In my engineering career, I’ve always followed the path less taken. My passion for this engineering area led to me pursuing a […] (BACK TO TOP)
#503 – December 19, 2022 What my life would be without programming One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chem department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my head while he was explaining it to me. The new cloud platform offers a global CDN, end-to-end project provisioning, granular access control, and lots more. Self-hosted or in the Cloud, Directus is perfect for any developer and every project. It also hurts the team's morale. (BACK TO TOP)
Since version 4.0, transactions have been introduced to the world of Mongo databases. However, the way they work differs greatly from the tried and true world of SQL. In databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL there are transactions based on tables and relations with isolation levels such as READ_UNCOMMITED , READ_COMMITED , REPEATABLE_READ and SERIALIZABLE . In the world of documents, shards and replicas, the changes made to a single document are already atomic by design.2, for distributed data.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Hello! On Monday, we released a new zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging ! It has 47 of my favourite strategies for solving your sneakiest bugs. You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/debugging-guide , or get an 12-pack of all my zines here . But not all of us have that person, so we end up just struggling through it ourselves and learning strategies the hard way.wizardzines.com . You can read some notes on designing those puzzes here: Notes on building debugging puzzles . (BACK TO TOP)
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Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol" (BACK TO TOP)
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 is a web service that provides resizable, on-demand computing capacity — literally, servers in Amazon’s data centers — that you use to build and host your software. It’s important to understand that EC2 is a virtual computing environment. In a virtual environment, there is one physical server with all of the necessary hardware — CPU, memory, hard disk, network controller and more. (BACK TO TOP)
By: Chanwit Kaewkasi, Weaveworks Senior Software Engineer It's hard to believe, but this month marks the one-year anniversary of the Weave GitOps Terraform Controller . In just one short year, this tool has revolutionized how we manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and has brought the true principles of GitOps to the world of Terraform. For those who are new to GitOps, it's a practice that uses Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and application code. (BACK TO TOP)
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years: I expect customer-oriented compliance to converge on a unified set of controls. It’s certainly possible that antitrust regulators will step in to reduce the 1st party advertising advantage here, but by no means certain. (BACK TO TOP)
On today’s Heavy Networking we get inside the process of technical writing and product documentation from a person deep in the trenches of creating docs. We also talk about why writing as a skill might be worth cultivating even if you aren’t responsible for creating the manual. The post Heavy Networking 660: Writing The Manual – An Insider’s View Of Product Documentation appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
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Why do heated woks turn blue? I asked ChatGPT, but it's still not great at physics. (BACK TO TOP)
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In one of our most popular episodes, professor of Marketing Baba Shiv shares his research on how emotions affect decision making. Knowing this, and applying techniques to help guide our audience through information and emotion, can help us make our messages stick. In this best-of episode we've included extra footage from Matt Abrahams's conversation with Shiv from November of 2020 that touches on how to best approach writing emails. See Privacy Policy at https://art19. (BACK TO TOP)
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It is time to reflect back on the year. Here are some selected papers I covered in 2022. Production systems Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations + On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes Aurora provides a a high-throughput relational database on AWS cloud by decoupling the storage to a multi-tenant scale-out storage service. Each database instance acts as a SQL endpoint and supports query processing and transactions. DynamoDB uses MultiPaxos for replication... (BACK TO TOP)
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2022. (BACK TO TOP)
When setting up cloud infrastructure for your team, it often makes sense to provision sensitive services in private subnets. However, this usually means that those services are not easily accessible from your personal devices or CI/CD infrastructure. Tailscale already makes it possible to access those services by adding a private subnet router to your tailnet. Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code platform for creating, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure.0.0.t3.0.0.0.0.t3.20. (BACK TO TOP)
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I need to install Windows 11 on a gaming PC, but I only have a MacBook in my house, as this is my primary machine for work. To make things worse, trying to do this on macOS Monterey is extra difficult due to the heightened security levels that withhold you from running unsigned software. I.e., […] The post How to Create a Windows 11 Bootable USB on Mac OS Monterey appeared first on frankdenneman.nl . (BACK TO TOP)
It’s the end of the year, and everybody is winding down from a hectic year, so we wanted to give you some light stuff to listen to in our last episode. But William had other plans. He is on fire in this episode, dropping one gem after another, sharing a decade-long of home lab wisdom. […] The post Unexplored Territory Ep 34 – William Lam Talks Home Labs – Christmas Special appeared first on frankdenneman.nl . (BACK TO TOP)
Speed, accuracy, and ease of use are keywords for today’s scouting tools. Grey Montgomery explains how DTN Agronomy delivers integrated insights in one platform. The post New Scouting Tools Bring Integrated Technology to Industry appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Most meteorologists would say that forecasting winter weather is the most challenging to forecast. DTN Chief Meteorologist Jim Foerster explains why. The post The Challenges Of Winter Weather Forecasting appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Today sees the launch of a dedicated website for rqlite. I built it using Hugo and Docsy, and deployed to Netlify, which worked very well. The post rqlite.io launched appeared first on Vallified . (BACK TO TOP)
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.13.0 improves the rqlite command-line tool, storing and reloading command history across sessions. You can download the release from GitHub. The post rqlite 7.13.0 released appeared first on Vallified . (BACK TO TOP)
Millions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying they're eligible to claim a class action payment in connection with the 2017 megabreach at consumer credit bureau Equifax. Given the high volume of reader inquiries about this, it seemed worth pointing out that while this particular offer is legit (if paltry), scammers are likely to soon capitalize on public attention to the settlement money. (BACK TO TOP)
Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then "swatting" them -- falsely reporting a violent incident at the target's address to trick local police into responding with force. Prosecutors say the duo used the compromised Ring devices to stream live video footage on social media of police raiding their targets' homes, and to taunt authorities when they arrived. (BACK TO TOP)
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How much does a software bug cost a company? Well that’s a messy question. It depends on the type of bug, the broken behavior, the type of company, etc. And it also depends on how we define “cost”. Catastrophic cases like Knight Capital and Ariane notwithstanding, most of the price of the bug is indirect : lost consumer confidence, opportunity cost of debugging, schedule impacts, etc. These are more nebulous costs and people can disagree on how much they actually are. And my backup email. (BACK TO TOP)
Happy end of 2022! It’s been a busy year personally and professionally, one of the most productive (on both fronts!) in a long time. Not that you’d be able to tell from the blog! I didn’t publish much this year, in fact it was the least active blog year since 2017. That’s because most of my time was taken up by a couple of really big projects and I never quite got into the work groove. But let’s cover everything I did this year. Learn TLA+ ( announcement ) This defined the first half of my year. (BACK TO TOP)
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Join us in celebrating 12 highlights of 2022 (and then some), including launches like one-click forking and replicas, our consumption-based, bottomless object store in Timescale Cloud, and the return of in-person events (great to see you!). (BACK TO TOP)
Developers are busy creatures who don’t always have the time to find helpful, productive tools for PostgreSQL. So, even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, we have a little present up our sleeve: 12 Days of PostgreSQL, a.k.a. 12 PostgreSQL projects you should know. Enjoy! (BACK TO TOP)
Let's try a thought experiment: we're going to design a little program that provides a service on a vaguely Unix-flavored box. It's designed to periodically source information over the Internet from hosts that may be close or far away, and then it keeps a local copy for itself and others to use. You might have it use some kind of config file where it is told the hostnames of the servers it's going to access. Maybe you've set up a pool, such that any given attempt at resolving foo.service.foo. (BACK TO TOP)
If you read back through some of my posts from 2021, you might discover something which basically says "run an IRC network or get involved with the chatting on it, but try not to do both". This was a reflection on my own youthful stupidity, and a plea to others to not make the same mistakes (as many of my posts tend to be). (BACK TO TOP)
If you’ve ever worked with Docker or Kubernetes, you’ll have likely used YAML files. From configuring an application’s services in Docker to defining Kubernetes objects like pods, services, and more—YAML is used for them all. If you’d like to learn how to work with YAML in the Python programming language, then this tutorial is for you. This tutorial will cover creating, writing, reading, and modifying YAML in Python. It is written with a .yml or .yaml (preferred) file extension.py.yaml .yaml . (BACK TO TOP)
Defining Application Routing in Kubernetes Cluster When you’re getting started with Kubernetes, setting up the proper routing can be a challenge. There are a lot of moving parts and understanding how IP address get assigned and what they point to can be confusing at first. In this article, you will learn what an Ingress is, and its usefulness when routing in Kubernetes. You will also be introduced to Service and how they differ from an Ingress. Kubectl installed locally. apiVersion : networking. (BACK TO TOP)
storing 1 GiB/month on the cloud 0.02$US web site of my twitter profile (@lemire), HTML alone 296 KiB web site of my twitter profile (@lemire), all data 3.9 MiB Google result for ‘Canada’, HTML alone 848 KiB Google result for ‘Canada’, all data 3.7 MiB Node JS runtime 164 MiB Size of the Java (19) … Continue reading The size of things in bytes (BACK TO TOP)
In C, the length of a string in marked by a 0 byte at the end of the string. Thus to determine the length of the string, one must scan it, looking for the 0 byte. Recent ARM processors have a powerful instruction set (SVE) that is well suited for such problems. It allows you … Continue reading Implementing ‘strlen’ using SVE (BACK TO TOP)
We’re back! This is from our “lost episodes” — This is your brain…and this is your brain on burnout, any questions? OK, but seriously, burnout effects everyone, even if they/you don’t admit it. Burnout is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress. It can affect ANYONE, but it is especially common among high-performers who push themselves to the limit. If you’re heading into 2023 feeling overwhelmed and drained, this episode is for you. (BACK TO TOP)
To wrap up the year we’re talking about what’s breaking the internet, again. Yes, we’re talking about ChatGPT and we’re joined by our good friend Shawn “swyx” Wang. Between his writings on L-Space Diaries and his AI notes repo on GitHub, we had a lot to cover around the world of AI and what might be coming in 2023. So, stay tuned for that next week. (BACK TO TOP)
Deno creator Ryan Dahl goes one-on-one with Jerod to discuss their new npm support, why he’s so excited about JavaScript containers, Deno Deploy’s present & future, what he thinks about alternative runtimes like Bun, WinterCG, how Wasm fits into the story & more! (BACK TO TOP)
Reliability update 2022-12-21 In the last couple of updates I’ve talked about some of the actions we’ve been taking to build longer-term reliability at the core of our service. In this update, I wanted to describe a bit of how we identified the underlying issues. Specifically, orienting around systemic issues, whether they are organizational or architectural. We also have shared practices for incident investigation and follow-up. To better building, Rob Zuber [email protected]. (BACK TO TOP)
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) optimizes team development flows by automating build, test, and deployment processes to ensure fast and reliable delivery of high-quality software. Adopting best-in-class CI/CD tooling is one of the best investments your organization can make to shorten delivery cycles, eliminate painful manual processes, and keep infrastructure costs in check. CircleCI supports all major version control systems , including GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. (BACK TO TOP)
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Kilka ciekawych AI-related projektów na które ostatnio trafiłem. Znajdziecie tam małe projekty w oparciu o dostępne już platformy jak i większe, bardziej zaawansowane projekty, które tworzą unikalne IP: Wand - pozwala wypełniać fragmenty szkicu generowaną grafiką ze Stable Diffusion. Możemy więc narysować sobie coś dokładnie tak jak chcemy. Terminal Copilot - można pisać komendy w terminalu używając naturalnego języka, Terminal Copilot tłumaczy to czego potrzebujesz na komendę. (BACK TO TOP)
Święta, więc odwiedzam co jakiś czas paczkomat. Paczkomat jest innowacją, której sens ciężko poczuć dopóki się z niej nie skorzysta. Moja paczkomatowa ewolucja wyglądała tak, że na początku wydawało mi się, że to bezsensowny pomysł. Po co mi paczkomat skoro kurier może mi przynieść paczkę do domu lub biura? Okazało się, że była to pochopna opinia. Proces był prosty i szybki, doświadczenie pozytywne. Kluczowym aspektem było to, że mam blisko do paczkomatu i mogę przy nim zaparkować. (BACK TO TOP)
Nie pisałem o Twitterze od jakiegoś czasu bo temat mnie trochę zmęczył, chciałem też dać więcej czasu Elonowi, żeby mógł zaprezentować nam lepiej wizję na rozwój mojej ulubionej aplikacji. Wizja rzeczywiście się pojawiła . Nie było w niej informacji na temat nowego podejścia do wolności słowa,ale była zapowiedź nowych funkcji: lepszych reklam (?), szyfrowanych prywatnych wiadomości, długich tweetów i kolejnej, lepszej wersji weryfikacji. Nowe wątki na ten temat pojawiają się co jakiś czas. (BACK TO TOP)
UE chce zmusić Apple do tego, żeby na iPhonie był więcej niż jeden App Store . App Store to jedna z największych innowacji, które przyniósł iPhone. Pierwszy iPhonie nie miał App Store. Nie było aplikacji, które tworzyli niezależni developerzy. iPhone był w pełni kontrolowany przez Apple. Pomysłem Steve’a Jobsa na aplikacje miały być strony webowe, które do dziś można dodawać jako osobną ikonę na iPhonie. Nikt tego oczywiście nie robi. iPhone miał być inny, w pełni kontrolowany i czysty. (BACK TO TOP)
To our way of thinking, the whole purpose behind robotic vacuum cleaners is their autonomy. They’re not particularly good at vacuuming, but they are persistent about it, and eventually get …read more (BACK TO TOP)
FPV can be a daunting hobby to get into. Screens, cameras, and other equipment can be expensive, and there’s a huge range of hardware to choose from. [JP Gleyzes] has …read more (BACK TO TOP)
We’ve always been big fans of the Arduboy here at Hackaday. When creator Kevin Bates showed us the original prototype back in 2014, the idea was to use his unique …read more (BACK TO TOP)
[Electronoobs] has a healthy respect for the voltages and ceramics inside a microwave oven. But he still found the courage to tear one apart and show us the insides and …read more (BACK TO TOP)
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Introduction I made it my mission in 2022 to learn everything I could about blockchain and as the year ends, I feel like I accomplished my goal. Love it, hate it, or don’t want to know nothing about it, I think it’s important to push your opinions aside and understand how this technology works. Even with the current collapse of several large crypto companies in 2022, blockchain isn’t going to disappear. (BACK TO TOP)
Introduction In episode 8, Bill wanted to build a blockchain in Go and began to lay the groundwork for the project. Go is a good choice because its standard library has the necessary network and cryptographical functionality required to build a blockchain. Unlike the previous segment, Bill plans to use this blockchain to manage accounts and balances with hypothetical assets. Bill will reuse concepts from ethereum, bitcoin and the previous segment of the series to implement this blockchain. (BACK TO TOP)
Introduction In episode 6, Bill gives an overview of what consensus algorithms are and how these algorithms ensure distributed databases are in sync. Moving forward Bill will adopt the proof of authority (PoA) algorithm as a means to determine which node has the ability to write the next record. To jog your memory, PoA is a consensus mechanism where identity is used as a stake. (BACK TO TOP)
Introduction In the first part of the series, Bill designed a dependency management system. The dependency manager needed to be distributed, transparent, cryptographically auditable and scalable. To meet these requirements, Bill borrowed concepts from blockchain. He did this to illustrate how the blockchain can be repurposed and used to accomplish the mundane task of dependency management. While doing so, Bill indirectly highlighted the problems a blockchain solves. (BACK TO TOP)
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The Microsoft Defender for IoT research team details information on the recent distribution of a Go-based botnet, known as Zerobot, that spreads primarily through IoT and web-application vulnerabilities. The post Microsoft research uncovers new Zerobot capabilities appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Are you wondering what initiatives to prioritize in the new year? This blog distills some of the major forecasts for 2023, from technology to new worker behavior. We then help to translate the implications for those trends for those in charge of endpoint management strategies. The post Microsoft Intune: 5 endpoint management predictions for 2023 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Former IDC Program Vice President Christina Richmond shares insights on digital trust and identity protection. The post How to build a secure foundation for identity and access appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Microsoft discovered a vulnerability in macOS, referred to as “Achilles”, allowing attackers to bypass application execution restrictions enforced by the Gatekeeper security mechanism. The post Gatekeeper’s Achilles heel: Unearthing a macOS vulnerability appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We’re excited to announce that Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2022 Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms. Microsoft achieved the highest possible score in 17 different criteria, including partner ecosystem, innovation roadmap, product security, case management, and architecture. The post Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in Q4 2022 Security Analytics Platforms Wave report appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill: Crashing airplanes and starving old people. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. As has become routine, this bill was stalled right until the final moment, so that Congressjerks could cram the 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion package with special favors for their donors, at the expense of the rest of the country. Let's start with the retirement scam.5 to 72.federalreserve.bc.cnbc.0. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Apple didn't confirm it, but I believe it. Gurman's sourcing was impeccable: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe This is a huge deal. While Apple's "curated" approach to software delivers benefits to users, those benefits are unreliable.eff.eff.12. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links 2023's public domain is a banger: Hemingway! Holmes! Woolf! Pooh! Christie! Metropolis! Gershwin! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading 2023's public domain is a banger (permalink) 40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. After 55-75 years, only 2% of works have any commercial value.law.duke.law.si. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Better failure for social media: The right of exit, freedom of reach, and technological self-determination. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. These are much neglected, and that's a pity, because how a system fails is every bit as important as how it works. Of course, commercial social media sites don't want to be good, they want to be profitable. The unique dynamics of social media allow the companies to uncouple quality from profit, and more's the pity.eff.archive.twitter. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links The antitrust Twilight Zone: How rollups are destroying the productive economy and making the ultra-rich even richer. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The antitrust Twilight Zone (permalink) Funeral homes were once dominated by local, family owned businesses. SCI charges 42% more than independent funeral homes.economicliberties. (BACK TO TOP)
A system built on Amazon Translate reduces the workload of human translators. (BACK TO TOP)
Google JAX Python library implementation and new topics added; volume 1 of book to be published by Cambridge University Press. (BACK TO TOP)
Fifth challenge adds new elements and features four new competitors for the $1 million research grant. (BACK TO TOP)
Ariadna Sanchez, a scientist who works in polyglot text to speech, draws on her musical background to help find novel solutions. (BACK TO TOP)
Transfer learning using limited contrastive data improves formality accuracy without compromising performance. (BACK TO TOP)
University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor and ARA recipient has authored a series of pioneering papers on real-time object instance segmentation. (BACK TO TOP)
Use the DALL-E and OpenAI GPT REST APIs to generate poetry and accompanying images! (BACK TO TOP)
On the 11th day of Retool, some hackers gave to me: 11 FIFA matches, ${otherItems} and a parser for an AST!
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On the 10th day of Retool, some hackers gave to me: 10 Retool videos, ${otherItems} and a parser for an AST!
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On the 9th day of Retool, some hackers gave to me: nine Star Wars movies, ${otherItems} and a parser for an AST!
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On the 8th day of Retool, some hackers gave to me- 8 bits of gaming, ${otherItems} and a parser for an AST!
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Operations software represents half of all software built today. But what is it, and what makes it special? (BACK TO TOP)
OAuth2 is one of the most popular specifications for API authentication today, though wrapping your head around it can be a challenge. The post The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2 (part 1) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Absent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do. The post I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Next.js is a powerful yet simple framework, though developers still struggle to increase the speed of their applications. Here's how you can make those apps faster. The post Best practices to increase the speed for Next.js apps appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
A terminal shouldn't have to feel...terminal. The post Let’s talk about our favorite terminal tools (Ep. 521) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
How you can use micro-commits to effectively apply the Strangler Fig pattern. The post Use Git tactically appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Mastadon, holographic wormholes, and AI that writes comedy and code. The post An honest end-of-year rundown (Ep. 520) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We’re excited to present the Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year In Review, featuring interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet throughout this past year (BACK TO TOP)
Today, we’re releasing DNS record comments and tags, making it easier to keep track of and manage DNS records of your domain (BACK TO TOP)
Our Impact Report is an annual summary highlighting how we are trying to build a better Internet and the progress we are making on our environmental, social, and governance priorities. (BACK TO TOP)
And that’s a wrap! Impact Week 2022 has come to a close. Over the last week, Cloudflare announced new commitments in our mission to help build a better Internet, including delivering Zero Trust services for the most vulnerable voices and for critical infrastructure providers. (BACK TO TOP)
In this blog we outline how we advocate, across the many jurisdictions where we operate, for a better Internet, in our engagement with governments and regulators. (BACK TO TOP)
A discussion about IP blocking: why we see it, what it is, what it does, who it affects, and why it’s such a problematic way to address content online. (BACK TO TOP)
We are excited to share our Third Party Code of Conduct, specifically formulated with our suppliers, resellers and other partners in mind. (BACK TO TOP)
Is BGP safe yet? If the question needs asking, then it isn't. But how far the Internet is from this goal is what we set out to answer. (BACK TO TOP)
The ERGs at Cloudflare have helped us realize the power of community and how critical it is for hybrid work. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how Cloudflare is empowering the HBCU Smart Cities Challenge (BACK TO TOP)
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Photo by Bryan Goff on Unsplash How to create statistical plots using the VegaLite.jl package This is the second of several articles where I compare different Julia graphics packages for creating statistical plots. I’ve started with the Gadfly package ( Statistical Plotting with Julia: Gadfly.jl , [SPJ02]) and continue the series here with the VegaLite package . There I’ve also introduced the data which will be used for the plotting examples (here and in [SPJ02]). VegaLite VegaLite.jl).g.e.g. (BACK TO TOP)
A step by step tutorial on how to set up and use NeoVim, for complete beginners Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
A comprehensive understanding of the equation MSE = bias² + variance from a Bayesian perspective using examples and simulations Throughout my machine learning journey, I’ve come across the bias-variance trade-off several times, but I haven’t been able to fully grasp it. However, after adopting a Bayesian perspective, everything started to make sense. In this article, I’ll share my learnings. This parameter is usually represented by Θ (Theta). These are called observations.θᵏ.θᵏ.θᵏ.35.9. Alright. (BACK TO TOP)
Opinion This article attempts to estimate the carbon footprint of the popular OpenAI chatbot called ChatGPT Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash There’s a lot of talk about ChatGPT these days, and some people talk about the monetary costs of running the model, but not many people talk about the environmental costs of the model. Increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to human activities are a major driver of climate change [8] . running ChatGPT.04 kgCO2e.04 kg = 8.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Wild Marcello in Africa (Image By Author) Learn about Yolov4 and Darknet to train a Custom Object Detector Introduction I recently started working in the field of computer vision. And in these early days, I’m studying how the various algorithms of object detection work. Among the most well-known ones are R-CNN , Fast R-CNN , Faster R-CNN and of course YOLO . In this article, I want to focus on the last mentioned algorithm. It is fast, easy to install, and supports CPU and GPU computation.tar... (BACK TO TOP)
Can we tell whether kids are in school just from the viewing of certain TV shows on BBC iPlayer? Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Where and what to test in your tables and columns Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
How to Take Your SQL from Zero to Data Scientist Level — Part 3/3 Elevate your SQL coding skills to the next level with these three simple techniques Photo by Lorenzo Herrera on Unsplash Intro Welcome to the last installment of the series. In the previous two parts, we set up a solid foundation in basic and advanced SQL queries and executed them using SSMS and the demo database AdventureWorks . In this final part, we will cover the set of skills that will take your SQL to the next level.e. 1.e. (BACK TO TOP)
A new year is just around the corner, and with it comes the promise of launching new projects, pursuing unexplored interests, and making career decisions both big and small. Isn’t that exciting? Taking stock of all we’ve accomplished and learned in 2022 can be exciting in its own way, though. If you’re closing the book on a busy year and have reflections and insights to share, our friends at Medium recently invited the entire community to do just that , so we hope you add your voice to the mix. (BACK TO TOP)
An Easy Guide to Artificial Neural Networks and an Interactive Visualization Tool for Understanding and Learning the Concept Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
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At Google Cloud, we want to provide you with the access to all the tools you need to grow your business. Through the Google Cloud Technical Guides for Startups, leverage industry leading solutions with how-to video guides and resources curated for startups. This multi-series contains 3 chapters: Start, Build and Grow, which matches your startup’s journey: The Start Series: Begin by building, deploying and managing new applications on Google Cloud from start to finish. See you in the cloud! (BACK TO TOP)
Deutsche Bank, Wake Technical Community College, and Google Cloud are building a cloud talent pipeline in North Carolina
The world is facing a talent shortage, affecting more than 1 billion jobs by 2030 1 . While the talent shortage spans all digital skills, the battle for cloud talent is particularly acute - more than one third of tech leaders say professionals with cloud skills are the most challenging to find 2 . The state of North Carolina is experiencing this cloud skilling shortage first-hand with over 5,000 open cloud engineer roles in the past 12 months 3 . (BACK TO TOP)
The city of South Bend, Indiana has announced they are working with Google Cloud to connect 500 local job seekers with no-cost access to Google Cloud Skills Boost through Upskill SB . This initiative will train, upskill, and certify residents in cloud computing skills to create pathways to technical jobs. According to Lightcast, there were 27,180 unique cloud roles open in the U.S. as of October 2022. Students can request access to free online labs, quests, and courses. (BACK TO TOP)
Documents are indispensable parts of our professional and personal lives. They give us crucial insights that help us become more efficient, that organize and optimize information, and that even help us to stay competitive. But as documents become increasingly complex, and as the variety of document types continues to expand, it has become increasingly challenging for people and businesses to sift through the ocean of bits and bytes in order to extract actionable insights.g.) from the document.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Since I joined Google Cloud at the start of 2022, one theme that comes up time and time again in conversations with leaders both at our customers and partners is this: meaningful Climate Action is now about business transformation, and business transformation is essential if society is to meet its ever-more-urgent climate goals.. In addition, we’re planning to launch similar functionality for Google Workspace in early 2023, providing emissions data for products like Gmail, Meet, Docs and others. (BACK TO TOP)
Today’s enterprise applications are often assembled across distributed environments. This includes the integration of services across multi-cloud, multi-SaaS and on-premises environments. While the approach has the advantage of enabling enterprises to choose the best service available to support their applications, it adds the complexity of delivering services across heterogeneous environments. We believe that traffic management policies should also be supported across environments.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Once upon a time, all Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters used public IP addressing for communication between nodes and the control plane. Subsequently, we heard your security concerns and introduced private clusters enabled by VPC peering. Today, we’re presenting a new consistent PSC-based framework for GKE control plane connectivity from cluster nodes. New architecture Starting with GKE version 1. In addition, the new PSC infrastructure can provide cost savings.wagtailcore.rich_text.45. (BACK TO TOP)
Welcome to December’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to look back at the most important security lessons of 2022 with my colleagues in our Office of the CISO and on the Google Cybersecurity Action Team . As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog . If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here .wagtailcore.rich_text.chronicle. Read more . Read more .S. (BACK TO TOP)
Like many states across the U.S., Kentucky experienced significant job shortages when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in spring of 2020. In the first four months of the pandemic alone, Kentucky’s workforce shrank by 112,000. Cloud computing talent gaps in the state have been particularly acute - with more than 1,000 open cloud roles in 2022 according to Lightcast. “By participating in this program, students are acquiring important cloud and digital literacy skills. 1. (BACK TO TOP)
In 2020, Google Cloud launched the Research Innovators program to encourage scientific breakthroughs with the latest cloud technologies. With access to Google experts and support from peers, research innovators are able to fast-track their projects for real-world impact. They receive additional Google Cloud research credits, support to share their work, speaking opportunities, complimentary admission to Google conferences, and more. Marieke van Buchem , Ph.D. (BACK TO TOP)
When setting up storage for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment, customers can choose between block storage ( Persistent Disk , or PD) or file storage ( Filestore Enterprise ). In this blog post, we look at considerations for choosing block vs. file in a GKE environment, and how to use the new Filestore Enterprise multishare feature. Block vs. However, with PD, customers need to have expertise in storage systems. When using PD, the file system logic is in the host.g.g.g.g... (BACK TO TOP)
What a year! Over here at Google Cloud, we’re winding things down, but not before taking some time to reflect on everything that happened over the past twelve months. Inspired by the custom Spotify Wrapped playlist playing in our earbuds, we pulled the data about the best-read Google Cloud news posts of the year, to better understand which stories resonated most with you. Many of your favorite stories came as no surprise, as they tracked with major news, product launches, and events.rich_text. (BACK TO TOP)
A motorcycle accident left Googler Yariv Adan with chronic pain—it’s made him an advocate for empathy and equity
Editor’s note : Yariv Adan has been involved in the creation of some of Google's most well-known and astonishing products—helping make complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) accessible and useful to billions of people. For a long time, he’s been living with chronic pain. A naturally lively and curious person, his personal journey has taught him resilience and compassion. Twenty years ago, I used relatively simple AI models to spot anomalies in business operations... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Startups worldwide turn to Google Cloud tools to build fast on a strong and easy to use platform that helps them get to market and launch products faster, all while building on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Startups leverage Google Cloud and our Google for Startups Cloud Program to go from idea to IPO, and there are a variety of products on Google Cloud that can help them. Here are the 8 top products that startups use on Google Cloud to innovate and grow: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. (BACK TO TOP)
ICYMI: Security Talks goes deep on SolarWinds, Chrome, Zero Trust, and today’s toughest SOC challenges
Security operations teams are facing a “perfect storm” of challenges from nation-state actors turning their attention to financial crime, to rising uncertainty and potential complexities because of rapidly advancing cloud migration and IoT adoption, to the long-lamented skills shortage . Now imagine having to face this trifecta without visibility into your IT and security infrastructure because scale and cost concerns have impeded your ability to ingest and monitor critical telemetry. 2. 3. (BACK TO TOP)
Editor's note : This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: By 2025, over half of all business applications will be built by users who do not identify as professional developers today As organizations evolve, more and more development work is being taken on by teams and individuals outside of traditional IT departments. Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . Direct events provide strongly typed events with lower latency. Read more here . Read more about these topics here . Learn more . Read more here .S. (BACK TO TOP)
Have you ever heard of an optimization problem? Imagine you have a million marbles, all of different sizes, colors, patterns, and weights. You need to fill up 1,000 jars of different sizes with them, but each jar has restrictions as to which colors, patterns, and how many marbles of each type it can hold. After filling all the jars, you may keep any leftover marbles, so you want to ensure that these are the shiniest ones in the bunch. (BACK TO TOP)
Editor’s note : This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: The barriers between transactional and analytical workloads will mostly disappear Traditionally, transactional and analytical workloads have had separate data architectures. Let’s imagine, for example, that a bank wants to provide a personalized, real-time investment dashboard to its customers. (BACK TO TOP)
Google Cloud Memorystore for Redis Best Practices - Tips for a highly performant and worry-free deployment
Practices Tips for a Highly Performant and Worry-free Deployment Memorystore is a fully managed implementation of the open source in-memory databases Redis and Memcached. Memorystore makes it easy to build applications on Google Cloud to leverage in-memory stores based on open source Redis and Memcached. Many applications deployed in the cloud today use an in-memory data store. We will focus on Memorystore for Redis in this blog. Further details can be found here . (BACK TO TOP)
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