Bulletin for Friday, 11 Aug 2023
7 days digest
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
Tom Mewett (1)
The CircleCI Blog Feed - CircleCI (1)
The Go Blog (1)
Timescale Blog (1)
QuestDB Blog (1)
Go (Golang) Programming Blog - Ardan Labs on (1)
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog (1)
Stay SaaSy (1)
The Technium (1)
journal.stuffwithstuff.com (1)
Weaveworks (1)
Google AI Blog (2)
- Advances in document understanding
- AdaTape: Foundation model with adaptive computation and dynamic read-and-write
Retool Blog (2)
- Rethinking collaboration: every update from Retool’s Developer Day
- An engineering manager’s guide to AI security and governance
- Adopting guidance from the US National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the Internet of Things
- Microsoft AI Red Team building future of safer AI
Computer Things (2)
Replit Blog (2)
Earthly Blog (2)
Towards Data Science - Medium (2)
- HashGNN: Deep-dive into Neo4j GDS’s new node embedding algorithm
- Does Rain Predict Rain? US Weather Data and the Correlation of Rain Today and Tomorrow
Latent Space (2)
- LLMs Everywhere: Running 70B models in browsers and iPhones using MLC — with Tianqi Chen of CMU / OctoML
- [AI Breakdown] Summer AI Technical Roundup: a Latent Space x AI Breakdown crossover pod!
- Coding of domain names to wire format at gigabytes per second
- Science and Technology links (August 6 2023)
- Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2023 Edition
- Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’
- Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life
- Introducing per hostname TLS settings — security fit to your needs
- Project Cybersafe Schools: Bringing security tools for free to small K-12 school districts in the US
- Unmasking the top exploited vulnerabilities of 2022
- Compressing token-embedding matrices for language models
- Recent honors and awards for Amazon scientists
- KDD 2023: Graph neural networks’ new frontiers
Julia Evans (3)
- What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
- Some tactics for writing in public
- Behind "Hello World" on Linux
DTN (4)
- Protect Profits and the Environment with Blast Dispersion Modelling
- What can two terminal delays cost you?
- Discover how Lamb Fuels succeeds
- Four Solar Industry Weather Wants for Hail Risk Management
- Take me to Val Town (JS Party #287)
- Thinking outside the box of code (Changelog Interviews #552)
- Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (Practical AI #235)
- The open source licensing war is over, Tailwind components for your AI app, Mac mini modded to use PoE, Apple joins OpenUSD alliance & picking the worst tool for the job (Changelog News #56)
- Turns out nobody cared about panel gaps
- The curing value of creation
- Et tu, Zoom?
- Not everyone can be the best
- Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system
- How Meta is improving password security and preserving privacy
- Fixit 2: Meta’s next-generation auto-fixing linter
- Using short-lived certificates to protect TLS secrets
Blog – Hackaday (4)
- Automated Drone Takes Care of Weeds
- Laser Engraver Uses All of the DVD Drive
- A Hobson’s Coupler Leads to a Weird Engine
- Canadian Engineers? They Have a Ring About Them
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (5)
- Pluralistic: The long bezzle (10 August 2023)
- Pluralistic: No, Uber's (still) not profitable (09 August 2023)
- Pluralistic: Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster (08 August 2023)
- Pluralistic: America's largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel (05 August 2023)
- Pluralistic: Fighting junk fees is "woke" (04 August 2023)
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (5)
- Getting creative with embeddings
- Datasette 1.0a3
- Llama from scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
- Python cocktail: mix a context manager and an iterator in equal parts
- You can stop using user-scalable=no and maximum-scale=1 in viewport meta tags now
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (6)
- IPv6 Buzz 132: Down The Rabbit Hole Of IPv6 Router Advertisements
- Day Two Cloud 206: Making The Most Of Red Teaming With Gemma Moore
- Heavy Wireless 008: 3D Printing For Wireless Engineers
- Tech Bytes: Spotting Performance Problems Faster With Digital Experience Monitoring (Sponsored)
- Network Break 441: AWS Makes You Pay For IPv4; Superconductor Claims Meet Resistance; An Ultra Ethernet Q&A
- Heavy Networking 693: Securing Workforce Transformation With Cloud SWG (Sponsored)
- Visualize knowledge flows with Connectivity
- Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic
- Understanding SRE (Ep. 597)
- Speeding up the I/O-heavy app: Q&A with Malte Ubl of Vercel
- The Overflow #189: OverflowAI!
- The fine line between product and engineering (Ep. 596)
- Getting creative with embeddings
- Datasette 1.0a3
- Llama from scratch (or how to implement a paper without crying)
- Python cocktail: mix a context manager and an iterator in equal parts
- How I make annotated presentations
- Weeknotes: Plugins for LLM, sqlite-utils and Datasette
- You can stop using user-scalable=no and maximum-scale=1 in viewport meta tags now
- Human-plus-AI solutions mitigate security threats
- The Download: medical ethics, and AI watermarks
- Inside MIT’s nuclear reactor laboratory
- Who gets to decide who receives experimental medical treatments?
- Merging physical and digital tools to build resilient supply chains
- Why watermarking AI-generated content won’t guarantee trust online
- The Download: the promise of stem cell treatments, and China’s screen time crackdown
- After 25 years of hype, embryonic stem cells are still waiting for their moment
LogRocket Blog (12)
- Writing meaningful user stories with the INVEST principle
- UX design frameworks: Types and use cases for each
- How to create a product packaging strategy in 5 steps
- OKLCH in CSS: Consistent, accessible color palettes
- Running React and Express with concurrently
- A guide to brand extension strategies
- How to reposition a failing product
- Avoiding banner blindness: Designing for attention in UX
- Integrating customer support into your product strategy
- Best Feather-inspired animated icon libraries for React
- What is conjoint analysis for market research?
- Creating a reusable pop-up modal in React from scratch
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
When it comes to emotional and physical wellbeing, Psychology professor Geoffrey Cohen says there is one healthy behavior that outweighs the others: authentic connection. “It is really, really important,” he says. Deep connections with other people are foundational to a happy and healthy life. As Cohen explores in his new book, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides , achieving a sense of belonging isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s essential. (BACK TO TOP)
Hi everyone, Long time no see! Despite the wait (again) I actually don’t have a lot of updates to give, but since my last newsletter I’ve written 3 articles on my blog. I feel misled about male mental health is a bit of a personal post, of finally figuring out the weird feelings I have towards what I hear about men and mental health. React is more than UI—it’s a side-effect framework 🧱 is an overview of how React is actually a pattern for state management.com . Takk… Tom (BACK TO TOP)
The Go Blog Go 1.21 is released! Eli Bendersky, on behalf of the Go team 8 August 2023 Today the Go team is thrilled to release Go 1.21, which you can get by visiting the download page . Go 1.21 is packed with new features and improvements. Here are some of the notable changes; for the full list, refer to the release notes . Tool improvements The Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) feature we announced for preview in 1.20 is now generally available! If a file named default. Go 1. Enjoy Go 1. (BACK TO TOP)
#534 – August 07, 2023 How branches influence the performance of your code and what can you do about it In this articles we investigate on how branches influence the performance of the code and what can we do to improve the speed of our branchfull code. Should developers tackle the ever-escalating risk of fraud? Join the webinar! (sponsor) The battle against bot attacks and fraudsters is intensifying -time to gain an advantage. Invariants: A Better Debugger? I don't tend to use debuggers. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.timescale.com/blog/
Build an endless stream of IoT pipelines for faster real-time dashboards and analytics by using the IoT Core message routing functionality and a single Lambda function. (BACK TO TOP)
QuestDB 7.3 release notes (BACK TO TOP)
Have you ever copy-pasted chunks of utility code between projects, resulting in multiple versions of the same code living in different repositories? Or, perhaps, you had to make pull requests to tens of projects after the name of the GCP bucket in which you store your data was updated? Situations described above arise way too… (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/
Introduction In the first post of this series, I discussed the binary search API from the slices package that is now part of the standard library with the release of versionb 1.21. In this post, I will share how the Clip, Clone, and Compact APIs work. Clip The Clip API can be used to remove unused capacity from a slice. This means reducing the capacity of the slice to match its length. (BACK TO TOP)
.hilite {cursor:zoom-in} a:link img.hilite, a:visited img.hilite {color: #fff;} a:hover img.hilite {color: #f66;} The Intel 8086 microprocessor (1978) revolutionized computing by founding the x86 architecture that continues to this day. One of the lesser-known features of the 8086 is the "hold" functionality, which allows an external device to temporarily take control of the system's bus. This blog post explains in detail how the bus hold feature is implemented in the processor's logic.e.e.e. ↩ (BACK TO TOP)
In the 18 years since FlightAware was founded, the amount of data informing every aspect of our lives has grown dramatically, and our modern stories are often woven together with numbers and code as much as they are with words and pictures. (BACK TO TOP)
This blog post will walk through how we developed UniFFI: a Rust library for auto-generating foreign language bindings. We will walk through some of the issues that arose along the way and how we handled them. The post Autogenerating Rust-JS bindings with UniFFI appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog . (BACK TO TOP)
https://monzo.com/blog/technology
This blog discusses our Staff Engineer, Jacob, and his experience starting at Monzo as an intern in Engineering, and how he has developed into a Staff Engineer role. (BACK TO TOP)
The discussion of the future of work post-Covid has now been going on for years, and is nowhere near settled. Some companies are reversing prior decisions to go remote, while others cancel the last of their office space. Debates around the value of remote have continued feverishly, especially since both sides are incentivized to normalize their own point-of-view. The remote discussion is complex and hard to discuss rationally. These people are an anchor that your team has to drag around. (BACK TO TOP)
TIL: 18th century English aristocrats kept hermits on their country estates. The hermit’s main job was to be silently picturesque, and thus to delight visitors. “By 1750, if you only put in one structure in your garden, it would have … Continue reading → (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/
The good news is: I'm over the laryngitis. (Over a month without a voice!) The bad news? My voice is still hoarse enough to prevent me from recording the final part of my video series. So I had an idea. Since my computers use AI to manage themselves, they might as well give the presentation using AI! Each computer is named after a type of jelly. Using a cool text-to-speech system, I gave Chutney a voice. If you block them fast enough (e.g. Part 3 ( blog and video ) covered more active solutions. (BACK TO TOP)
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
As I mentioned in the last post , I’m working on taking my little videogame scripting language and turning it into a statically typed one. As much as possible, I’m trying to make the language simple and familiar. But sometimes those goals are in opposition and the most familiar solution to a problem is kind of a mess. So, I’m also exploring novel approaches and delving deeper into programming language history to scavenge forgotten ideas. By that, I mean: Data that might or might not be present.. (BACK TO TOP)
https://austinhenley.com/blog.html
https://austinhenley.com/blog/particle.html (BACK TO TOP)
A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized web apps. (BACK TO TOP)
DevOps automation has been a topic of discussion for over a decade now. However, the practice of automation has constantly evolved over the years as the technology stack has changed. From VMs to containers to Kubernetes , automation has looked different at every stage of cloud evolution. The most recent iteration in this journey is that of GitOps and Flux CD and its approach to deployment automation. Further, in 2023, Flux CD v2’s GA (General Availability) was announced. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Sandeep Tata, Software Engineer, Google Research, Athena Team The last few years have seen rapid progress in systems that can automatically process complex business documents and turn them into structured objects. A system that can automatically extract data from documents, e.g., receipts, insurance quotes, and financial statements, has the potential to dramatically improve the efficiency of business workflows by avoiding error-prone, manual work.g.g., FUNSD , CORD , SROIE ).60. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Fuzhao Xue, Research Intern, and Mostafa Dehghani, Research Scientist, Google Adaptive computation refers to the ability of a machine learning system to adjust its behavior in response to changes in the environment. While conventional neural networks have a fixed function and computation capacity, i.e. Adaptive computation in neural networks is appealing for two key reasons. Neural networks can be made adaptive by using different functions or computation budgets for various inputs.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Retool v3 introduces a new chapter for collaboration in Retool – from scaling complex, multi-branch applications to hundreds of peers to hacking together in real time. Check out everything we covered in our Developer Day launch event. (BACK TO TOP)
Some foundational guidance and best practices to help you lead AI development responsibly. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/
Microsoft is invested in helping partners create Internet of Things solutions with strong security products that support the March 2023 United States National Cybersecurity Strategy. The post Adopting guidance from the US National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the Internet of Things appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We’re sharing best practices from our team so others can benefit from Microsoft’s learnings. These best practices can help security teams proactively hunt for failures in AI systems, define a defense-in-depth approach, and create a plan to evolve and grow your security posture as generative AI systems evolve. The post Microsoft AI Red Team building future of safer AI appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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If you take a square and rotate it 90 degrees, you get back an identical square. We say the square is rotationally symmetric . Similarly, if you reflect it across an axis, you also get the same square. Since "reflectionally" isn't a word, we can more generally say it's "symmetric under reflection". If you take any two numbers and compute x + y , you'll get the same answer if you instead compute y + x . In formal specification, we can express symmetries as properties of the system. (BACK TO TOP)
I just added a big new section to learntla: Optimizing TLA+ Model Checking . I take a spec and then show 15 different optimizations, many of them getting a 10x runtime improvement. Patreon notes here . Besides that I've done very little writing the last couple weeks. I'm just in a slump: I sit down to write and the words all come out wrong. It happens sometimes and there's nothing to do about it but wait it out. So instead of working I've been learning Raku . You check set membership with ∈... . (BACK TO TOP)
We're excited to roll out Expandable Storage, Replit's new storage infrastructure making the 1 GiB per-Repl restrictions a thing of the past. A couple weeks ago, we announced the next generation of storage that will allow Repls to reach 256 GiB. This change also included higher account-wide storage limits for everyone: * Free plan gets 10 GiB * Hacker plan gets 20 GiB * Pro plan gets 50 GiB. For builders who want to go even larger, we’re introducing à la carte storage. (BACK TO TOP)
Replit gives users a computer in the cloud so they can code from any device. Our plan from the start has been to be the best place for anyone in the world to bring their idea to life. This is a hugely ambitious goal, one that required nearly a decade of building to realize. Here is our pre-seed pitch deck from 2015 laying out our “master plan”: Replit evolved hand-in-hand with the increasing demand for more sophisticated tools from our user base. So we had to make changes... (BACK TO TOP)
Highlights NOCD struggled with long build times and latency in their CI builds due to a lack of caching and, after caching was implemented with Earthly, slow cache downloads and uploads. They implemented Earthly and Earthly Satellites. Earthly’s automatic caching sped up builds, and Earthly Satellites’ instantly available cache eliminated latency in their CI caused by cache downloads and uploads. It was the same kind of case as switching to Earthly for us. It’s been astounding. It’s pretty big. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly . We make building software simpler and therefore faster by using containerization. If you’re interested in a different approach to building and packaging software, then check us out . Rust’s use of generics enables developers to write flexible and reusable code. Generics allow functions, structs, and enums to be defined without specifying the type of data they will operate on. Additionally, generics provide better type safety and reduce the likelihood of errors.14 , height : 2. (BACK TO TOP)
https://towardsdatascience.com
HashGNN: Deep Dive into Neo4j GDS’s New Node Embedding Algorithm In this article, we will explore alongside a small example how HashGNN hashes graph nodes into an embedding space. If you prefer watching a video on this, you can do so here . HashGG (#GNN) is a node embedding technique, which employs concepts of Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNN) to capture high-order proximity and node properties.e. the graph structure) and (ii) the properties of the node to be embedded.e.g.e.org/abs/2105. (BACK TO TOP)
Introducing useful climate datasets and validating a global warming prediction Photo by Wim van ‘t Einde on Unsplash Summary During a dreary stretch of June and July in Boston, it seemed to rain every time my family had planned to do something fun. We started to wonder if we were stuck in a rainy pattern and asked, “Does the fact that it has rained a lot for three days straight, make it likely to rain tomorrow?” I realized that this question is easy to answer using available weather data.ncei.. (BACK TO TOP)
LLMs Everywhere: Running 70B models in browsers and iPhones using MLC — with Tianqi Chen of CMU / OctoML
Listen now (52 mins) | Compilers are all you need. How XGBoost and TVM were created, and the future of universal model deployments with MLC! (BACK TO TOP)
Listen now (59 min) | The hosts of AI Breakdown and Latent Space get together to discuss GPT4.5, Llama 2, AI Agents, AI Companions, and the Rise of the AI Engineer! (BACK TO TOP)
When you enter in your browser the domain name lemire.me, it eventually gets encoded into a so-called wire format. The name lemire.me contains two labels, one of length 6 (lemire) and one of length two (me). The wire format starts with 6lemire2me: that is, imagining that the name starts with an imaginary dot, all dots … Continue reading Coding of domain names to wire format at gigabytes per second (BACK TO TOP)
In an extensive study, You et al. (2022) found that meat consumption was correlated with higher life expectancies: Meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistically controlled. Stepwise linear regression selected meat intake, not carbohydrate crops, as one … Continue reading Science and Technology links (August 6 2023) (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
avidson Fellipe, a software engineer with 15 years’ experience, based in New York, was recently let go. After 350 applications and 85 first-round interviews in 4 months, he secured 3 offers, and has now started his new job. He shares first-hand learnings about navigating the jobs market. (BACK TO TOP)
A blog post suggests traffic is down 50% at Stack Overflow, due to ChatGPT gaining popularity. I reached out to Stack Overflow for more details: the company admitted a drop, but it’s only 14% as per data shared with me. (BACK TO TOP)
https://geohot.github.io//blog/
Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon . And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020, it didn’t even need tons of calls to the simulator, and could play Atari too . AI looked scary. It looked like it was one FOOM away from self playing and becoming superhuman at the universe. And yet, here we are in 2023 and self driving cars still don’t work. (BACK TO TOP)
GPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs. If a person has 20 PFLOPS (20e15) of compute, GPT-4 used 47.5 person-years to train. Very human scale. I want to build a computer capable of training GPT-4 in a day. I need 3e25/86400 = 347,000,000 TFLOPS, or 2.25M GPUs. At 300W each, I’m gonna need 675 MW of power. $2.25B CapEx for 2.25M $1000 GPUs. At $0.05/kWh, it’s $34k/hr to operate. Wafer scale compute probably makes sense. But 100 conservatively. It’s $0. No joke. (BACK TO TOP)
Microsoft Corp. today issued software updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related products, including a patch that addresses multiple zero-day vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild. (BACK TO TOP)
WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on such activity enforced by ChatGPT and Google Bard, has started adding restrictions on how the service can be used. In contrast, WormGPT has promoted itself as a new LLM that was created specifically for cybercrime activities. (BACK TO TOP)
One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects on LinkedIn, or abusing an encoding method that makes it easy to disguise booby-trapped Microsoft Windows files as relatively harmless documents. (BACK TO TOP)
Starting today, customers that use Cloudflare’s Advanced Certificate Manager can configure TLS settings on individual hostnames within a domain (BACK TO TOP)
Project Cybersafe Schools: Bringing security tools for free to small K-12 school districts in the US
Announced as part of the Back to School Safely: K-12 Cybersecurity Summit at the White House on August 7, Project Cybersafe Schools will support eligible K-12 public school districts with a package of Zero Trust cybersecurity solutions — for free, and with no time limit (BACK TO TOP)
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just released a report highlighting the most commonly exploited vulnerabilities of 2022. (BACK TO TOP)
Combining low-rank approximation, a residual binary autoencoder, and a new loss function enables a fivefold increase in compression ratio. (BACK TO TOP)
Researchers honored for their contributions to the scientific community. (BACK TO TOP)
Conference general chair and Amazon Scholar Yizhou Sun on modeling long-range dependencies, improving efficiency, and new causal models. (BACK TO TOP)
Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are intimidated by it. There obviously isn’t one single thing that works for everyone – different people take different paths. I think there are three parts to getting comfortable: reducing risks , motivation and resources . I’ll start with risks, then a couple of motivations and then list some resources. (my shell will tab complete rm *. I really agree with this one – I’ve been using fish for 10 years and I love it. (BACK TO TOP)
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!” I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years, even if sometimes people are jerks. So I want to explain some tactics I use to try to make the comments on my posts more informative and useful to me, and to try to minimize the number of annoying comments I get. (BACK TO TOP)
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on Linux, like this one? print("hello world") Here’s what it looks like at the command line: $ python3 hello.py hello world But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on. I’ll describe some of what happens, and (much much more importantly!) explain some tools you can use to see what’s going on behind the scenes yourself. We’ll use readelf , strace , ldd , debugfs , /proc , ltrace , dd , and stat ... (BACK TO TOP)
Weather plays a critical role in blast safety and success. Learn how dispersion modelling with two-week risk outlooks helps reduce numerous risks. The post Protect Profits and the Environment with Blast Dispersion Modelling appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Overcoming three common throughput challenges can greatly reduce denials and reroutes. Read our whitepaper to learn more. The post What can two terminal delays cost you? appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how Lamb Fuels affordably enhanced its price discovery in our case study. The post Discover how Lamb Fuels succeeds appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Hail is costly to the solar industry, with the potential to cause millions of dollars in damage. Learn four weather-related approaches to reducing risk. The post Four Solar Industry Weather Wants for Hail Risk Management appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Val Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it. (BACK TO TOP)
Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for “writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any coding.” (BACK TO TOP)
In this Fully Connected episode, Daniel and Chris kick it off by noting that Stability AI released their SDXL 1.0 LLM! They discuss its virtues, and then dive into a discussion regarding how the United States, European Union, and other entities are approaching governance of AI through new laws and legal frameworks. In particular, they review the White House’s approach, noting the potential for unexpected consequences. (BACK TO TOP)
The open source licensing war is over, Tailwind components for your AI app, Mac mini modded to use PoE, Apple joins OpenUSD alliance & picking the worst tool for the job (Changelog News #56)
Matt Asay thinks the open source licensing war is over, LangUI is an open source Tailwind component library for your AI chat app, Ivan Kuleshov modded a Mac mini to run via PoE, Apple joins Pixar and others in the Alliance for OpenUSD & John D. Cook says sometimes you shouldn’t pick the best tool for the job. (BACK TO TOP)
One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of the traditional values of car making. While the rest of the industry was stuck competing on the size of their panel gaps, and other aspects of precision and quality assembly, Tesla didn't even show up to participate. Their cars are legendary for being delivered with shoddy paint jobs, rattling interiors, and even mismatched doors . It's the epitome of Blue Ocean Strategy . (BACK TO TOP)
It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a product, an organization, or a community, or all three at once. Like exercise, it's one of those rare avenues of human endeavor that almost invariably will make anyone feel better. And, also like exercise, the hard part is getting started when you need it the most! That's the curious chasm between knowledge and action. The pretending of purpose. The appearance of collaboration. Make something. (BACK TO TOP)
The corporate cause for return-to-office just claimed its perhaps most ironic victim: Zoom ! The company that literally lives to sell us all on the wonders of remote collaboration wants its own people back into the office again. Which I guess is just a regression to the mean of productivity tool makers failing to believe their own marketing, but it's a bit sad none the less. Not the least because this push for return-to-office has now been proven completely safe for large tech corporations. (BACK TO TOP)
Many software developers seem to have a uniquely hard time accepting that not everyone who just tries real hard will become so good as to be among the best in this field. That there really is a discrepancy of talent that leads to a discrepancy of competence. That not everyone can or will become equally good at this job. In contrast, nobody seems to have trouble with the fact that not every soccer player who loves the game and trains their best will become eligible for the Premier League. Good. (BACK TO TOP)
Explore is one of the largest recommendation systems on Instagram. We leverage machine learning to make sure people are always seeing content that is the most interesting and relevant to them. Using more advanced machine learning models, like Two Towers neural networks, we’ve been able to make the Explore recommendation system even more scalable and [...] Read More... The post Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Meta is developing new privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to innovate and solve problems with less data. These technologies enable teams to build and launch privacy-enhanced products in a way that’s verifiable and safeguards user data. Using state-of-the-art cryptographic techniques, we have developed Private Data Lookup (PDL) that allows users to privately query a server-side data set. [...] Read More... (BACK TO TOP)
Fixit is dead! Long live Fixit 2 – the latest version of our open-source auto-fixing linter. Fixit 2 allows developers to efficiently build custom lint rules and perform auto-fixes for their codebases. Fixit 2 is available today on PyPI. Python is one of the most popular languages in use at Meta. Meta’s production engineers (PEs) [...] Read More... The post Fixit 2: Meta’s next-generation auto-fixing linter appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Short-lived certificates (SLCs) are part of our latest efforts to further secure our Transport Layer Security (TLS) private keys on our edge networks. SLCs have a very short exposure compared to traditional certificates and lower the chances of a compromised private key being abused. Implementing SLCs has required us to address tradeoffs between operability and [...] Read More... The post Using short-lived certificates to protect TLS secrets appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Commercial industrial agriculture is responsible for providing food to the world’s population at an incredibly low cost, especially when compared to most of human history when most or a majority …read more (BACK TO TOP)
For the last ten to fifteen years, optical drives have been fading out of existence. There’s little reason to have them around anymore unless you are serious about archiving data …read more (BACK TO TOP)
You want to join two shafts. What do you need? A coupler, of course. If the shafts don’t line up, you might consider an Oldham coupler. But what if the …read more (BACK TO TOP)
How can you spot an engineer? It can be tricky, but it is a little easier in Canada. That’s because many Canadian engineers have been through the Ritual of the …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links The long bezzle: Verizon can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.net/2023/08/09/accounting-gimmicks/#unter The bezzle is contained by two forces. First, Stein's Law: "Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop." Second, Keynes's: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.techdirt.2 billion on this folly: https://www.techdirt.theverge.theverge.techdirt.techdirt.techdirt.techdirt.techdirt. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links No, Uber's (still) not profitable: A relentless, world-leading innovator in ever-sweatier balance sheet tricks, accounting gimmicks and hopium. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. There are just intrinsic limitations to the profits available to operating a taxi fleet, even if you can misclassify your employees as contractors and steal their wages, even as you force them to bear the cost of buying and maintaining your taxis. It was just predatory pricing. Uber lost $0. A 2.law. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster: From the same parasites that infected your hospital's emergency room and sucked Toys R Us dry. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.net/2022/11/07/random-penguins/#if-you-wanted-to-get-there-i-wouldnt-start-from-here When I was a baby writer, there were dozens of large NY publishers. Today, there are five – and it was almost four.g., the writers' strike and actors' strike).nytimes. Think of healthcare.nytimes.craphound.tor. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links America's largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel: HCA's administrators berate doctors over "missed hospice opportunities." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Take the hoary chestnut that "incentives matter," trotted out to deny humane benefits to poor people on the grounds that "free money" makes people "workshy. It's this belief that leads the right to embrace monopolies as "efficient": "A company's dominance is evidence of its quality.eff.medium.cambridge.7. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Fighting junk fees is "woke": Visa and Mastercard want you to pay credit card swipe fees to own the libs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Fighting junk fees is "woke" (permalink) "Populism" isn't intrinsically left or right. If they say 'property rights are human rights,' they're on the right. Forty. Fucking. Percent.congress. (BACK TO TOP)
In this episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom get technical with a discussion of IPv6 Router Advertisements (RAs), what they are, what they're for, what information they contain, new and future RA options, and what you need to know about them to help deploy IPv6 effectively. The post IPv6 Buzz 132: Down The Rabbit Hole Of IPv6 Router Advertisements appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Red teams attack a customer's security systems. The idea of a red team, whether consultants or in-house, is to approach the target like an attacker would. A red team includes technical and human-based exploit and attempts to test defenses, probe for weaknesses, and identify vulnerable systems and processes. On today's episode we look at how to get the most out of a red team engagement--it's much more than just an attack and a report. (BACK TO TOP)
3D printing is a popular activity among wireless network engineers. Given that they deal with invisible, intangible radio waves all day, maybe it's no surprise they'd enjoy making things they can touch and feel. On today's Heavy Wireless we talk about why the wireless community enjoys 3D printing, and how engineers can make and use printed objects on the job--and at home. The post Heavy Wireless 008: 3D Printing For Wireless Engineers appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we get into Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). DEM goes beyond traditional SLAs by offering more precise measurements of network and application performance as experienced by end users, and can provide detailed measurements to help network engineers identify and respond to problems. We talk with sponsor Fortinet about how it delivers DEM. (BACK TO TOP)
Network Break 441: AWS Makes You Pay For IPv4; Superconductor Claims Meet Resistance; An Ultra Ethernet Q&A
Take a Network Break! This week we discuss new charges for IPv4 addresses being levied by AWS, Cisco's acquisition of a BGP monitoring service, and financial results for a host of tech companies. We also speak with J Metz, the Steering Committee Chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to learn more about the organization's goals; and examine the efforts to investigate claims of a breakthrough in superconducting research. (BACK TO TOP)
On today's sponsored Heavy Networking we dig into cloud-delivered Secure Web Gateways (SWGs), which help guard end users against Web-based threats and enforce corporate Web access policies. As employees split time between home, office, and who knows where else, and as more applications move online, cloud-based SWGs help connect and protect workers. Our sponsor is Palo Alto Networks. (BACK TO TOP)
Measure whether your organization is successfully breaking down knowledge silos. The post Visualize knowledge flows with Connectivity appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We're setting the record straight. The post Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Vladyslav Ukis, Head of R&D at Siemens Healthineers and an expert in site reliability engineering (SRE), joins Ben and Ryan to talk about the relationship between SRE and DevOps, balancing SRE principles with organizational structure, and how he thinks GenAI will impact his field. The post Understanding SRE (Ep. 597) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
If edge functions were an onion, most of the layers would be caching. The post Speeding up the I/O-heavy app: Q&A with Malte Ubl of Vercel appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Life on the Python Steering Council, early meetings, and boring architecture The post The Overflow #189: OverflowAI! appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Kathryn Murphy, SVP of Product and Design at Twilio, chats with Stack Overflow CTO Jody Bailey about walking the line between product design and engineering early in their careers, lessons learned at tech juggernauts like Salesforce and Amazon, and their respective roadmaps for integrating generative AI into their products. The post The fine line between product and engineering (Ep. 596) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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Fifty years ago, the average business transaction was pretty straightforward. Shoppers handed purchases directly to cashiers, business partners shook hands in person, and people brought malfunctioning machines to a repair shop across the street. The proximity of all participating parties meant that both customers and businesses could verify authority and authenticity with their own eyes.… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who gets to decide who receives experimental medical treatments? There has been a trend toward lowering the bar for new medicines, and it is becoming easier for people to access treatments that might… (BACK TO TOP)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Tucked away behind a brick building on MIT’s campus sits a nuclear reactor. I’ve been hearing about this facility for over a decade, and it’s taken on a somewhat mythic quality in… (BACK TO TOP)
Max was only a toddler when his parents noticed there was “something different” about the way he moved. He was slower than other kids his age, and he struggled to jump. He couldn’t run. Blood tests suggested he might have a genetic disease— one that affected a key muscle protein. Max’s dad, Tao Wang, a… (BACK TO TOP)
Organizations are building resilient supply chains with a “phygital” approach, a blend of digital and physical tools. In recent years, the global supply chain has been disrupted due to the covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical volatility, overwhelmed legacy systems, and labor shortages. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), an industrial advocacy group, warns the disruption isn’t over—NAM’s… (BACK TO TOP)
In late May, the Pentagon appeared to be on fire. A few miles away, White House aides and reporters scrambled to figure out whether a viral online image of the exploding building was in fact real. It wasn’t. It was AI-generated. Yet government officials, journalists, and tech companies were unable to take action before the… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. After 25 years of hype, embryonic stem cells are still waiting for their moment In 1998, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a breakthrough for biology, since these cells… (BACK TO TOP)
Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, researchers in Wisconsin isolated powerful stem cells from human embryos. It was a fundamental breakthrough for biology, since these cells are the starting point for human bodies and have the capacity to turn into any other type of cell—heart cells, neurons, you name it. National Geographic would later summarize the… (BACK TO TOP)
The INVEST principle is a practice/framework to follow when creating user stories. INVEST stands for independent, negotiable, valuable, estimatable, small, and testable. The post Writing meaningful user stories with the INVEST principle appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Design frameworks exist to aid in restructuring the overall design process. Here's how to turn these principles into a strong UX foundation. The post UX design frameworks: Types and use cases for each appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Although creating a packaging strategy matrix is a complex and time-consuming endeavor, small improvements in your packaging strategy can make a significant impact on your product performance and bottom line. The post How to create a product packaging strategy in 5 steps appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We demonstrate how to use the oklch() color model in CSS to create a variety of consistent, accessible color palettes. The post OKLCH in CSS: Consistent, accessible color palettes appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We explore how to set up and run React and Express together using the concurrently CLI tool for streamlined development workflow. The post Running React and Express with concurrently appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
A brand extension is an independent brand that’s separate from the main brand and any other brand extensions. The post A guide to brand extension strategies appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Repositioning is a powerful concept because it allows you to leverage faster, less expensive techniques to jumpstart growth. The post How to reposition a failing product appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Banner blindness is an increasingly common phenomenon in digital product design and can impact how you advertise products and services. The post Avoiding banner blindness: Designing for attention in UX appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
A close collaboration with customer support equips product managers with a more attuned ear to the voice of the customer, ensuring their strategies are anchored in real-world issues rather than hypothetical scenarios. The post Integrating customer support into your product strategy appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Discover four of the best animated icon libraries for React that take their inspiration from the popular Feather icon library. The post Best Feather-inspired animated icon libraries for React appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Conjoint analysis is a statistical method often used to conduct market research and evaluate how customers value different product attributes. The post What is conjoint analysis for market research? appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Adding a pop-up modal to your React app can be a useful way to engage with users. Let's create one from scratch with the native HTML5 element. The post Creating a reusable pop-up modal in React from scratch appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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