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Engineer’s Codex (1)
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Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
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Latent Space (2)
- 1hr AI Engineering Intro Workshop
- High Agency Pydantic > VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
OpenAI Blog (2)
- OpenAI’s commitment to child safety: adopting safety by design principles
- Introducing more enterprise-grade features for API customers
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog (2)
Vallified (2)
Metadata (2)
DTN (3)
- Summer/Tropical Outlook 2024 Webinar Rebroadcast
- Texas Mutual Assistance Group 2024
- Weather Risk Innovation in the U.K. Webinar Rebroadcast
- Cloud Native, Europa, de 'Bijenkorf' Megascaler
- Practical parsing with PEG and cpp-peglib
- NLNOG Presentation trilogy on technical jobs and careers
- What language should beginning programmers choose?
- Is GenAI the next dot-com bubble?
- Why configuration is so complicated
Timescale Blog (3)
- 5 Common Connection Errors in PostgreSQL and How to Solve Them
- Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data
- 10 psql Commands That Will Make Your Life Easier
- The gift of ambition
- Villains may live long enough to become heroes
- As we forgive those who trespass against us
- We are a place of business
Percona Database Performance Blog (4)
- Bringing Percona Experts to a City Near You
- Why MariaDB Is “Better” Than MySQL
- PostgreSQL Database Security Best Practices
- Did MyDumper LIKE Triggers?
APNIC Blog (5)
- IPv6 prefix lengths
- Event Wrap: PCTA Tech Show 2024
- Internet sanctions as a response — diverging actions and mixed effects
- iOS upgrade using network automation tools
- In-network acceleration for AI / ML workloads
Grafana Labs blog on Grafana Labs (5)
- GrafanaCON 2024: On-demand sessions are now available!
- How to use the Grafana Operator: Managing a Grafana Cloud stack in Kubernetes
- The loser tree data structure: How to optimize merges and make your programs run faster
- Going green: How to monitor your cloud carbon footprint using Kepler, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Grafana OnCall mobile app notifications: The new and improved experience for Android users
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (6)
- Pluralistic: Antitrust is a labor issue (25 Apr 2024)
- Pluralistic: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search (24 Apr 2024)
- Pluralistic: "Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024)
- Pluralistic: Paying for it doesn't make it a market (22 Apr 2024)
- Pluralistic: Greedflation, but for prisoners (20 Apr 2024)
- Pluralistic: Precaratize bosses (19 Apr 2024)
- A Solid primer on Signals (JS Party #320)
- Mamba & Jamba (Practical AI #266)
- Run Gleam run (Changelog Interviews #588)
- What's new in Go's cryptography libraries: Part 3 (Go Time #313)
- The threat to open source comes from within (Changelog News #91)
- Rug pull, not cool! (Changelog & Friends #40)
- Bluesky apps (Ship It! #100)
- Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool helps you figure out which ones to trust.
- The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and clean energy’s implications for mining
- Want less mining? Switch to clean energy.
- Hydrogen could be used for nearly everything. It probably shouldn’t be.
- An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
- A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person
- Almost every Chinese keyboard app has a security flaw that reveals what users type
LogRocket Blog (7)
- Combating addictive design is the UX challenge of 2024
- Leader Spotlight: Understanding the root of the strategy, with Angela Suthrave
- What is a pivot in business? Strategies and implications
- Radix UI adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives
- A guide to conducting an effective after-action review (AAR)
- 21 UX case studies to learn from in 2024
- Leader Spotlight: The importance of being a good storyteller, with David Bloom
The Fat Pipe - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (8)
- KU054: OpenTelemetry: Open Source Observability
- NAN061: Transforming Network Telemetry Into Operational Insights With Kentik (Sponsored)
- D2C241: Choose Your Own Adventure: Manager, Director, or IC
- PP011: IoT Protocols: Detection and Protection
- HS070: Living on the Edge: The Present Future of Edge Architecture
- NB475: Cisco Hypes Hypershield; Broadcom Tries To Clarify VMware Strategy
- Tech Bytes: Begin Your Unified SASE Journey with Next-Gen SD-WAN (Sponsored)
- HN730: Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing and More Transform Their Branches with Next-Gen SD-WAN and SASE (Sponsored)
IEEE Spectrum (8)
- This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership
- Why Haven’t Hoverbikes Taken Off?
- Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help
- Why One Man Spent 12 Years Fighting Robocalls
- Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors
- Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector
- Video Friday: SpaceHopper
- Empower Your Supply Chain
- Quoting Alex Jason, via Adam Savage
- Quoting James Betker
- Blogmarks that use markdown
- No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies
- Snowflake Arctic Cookbook
- Quoting Cherlynn Low
- openelm/README-pretraining.md
- Quoting Erika Hall
- Quoting Daniel Holmgren
- microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-gguf
- Weeknotes: Llama 3, AI for Data Journalism, llm-evals and datasette-secrets
- The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
- Quoting Phi-3 Technical Report
- timpaul/form-extractor-prototype
- No one buys books
- Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM
- qrank
- tiny-world-map
- doom-htop
- Quoting Mihai Parparita
- Tips on Adding JSON Output to Your CLI App
- llm-gpt4all
- Ruff v0.4.0: a hand-written recursive descent parser for Python
- A POI Database in One Line
Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko . (BACK TO TOP)
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Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. corr_trend What does “strength” mean?¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. I am currently doing a uni assignment and one of my tasks is analysing the correlation between two variables. When I use the correlation function in Excel, it returns a correlation of -0.0377. When I use the same data to create a scatter plot, the... (BACK TO TOP)
Do you ever need to debug a node on kubernetes? Maybe the networking is broken, or you need to check something else out? The netshoot docker container contains a large number of helpful network tools like tcpdump, iperf, and more. Use a script like this to kubectl directly to a node with escalated privileges. Once in, try tcpdump -i any to see all network traffic on the node. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/
Introduction Exploring the critical issues of “use after free” and “use after move,” Herbert’s insights offer a valuable understanding to Rust developers: Rust’s ownership system acts as a powerful safeguard against memory safety issues like “use after free” and “use after move,” ensuring code correctness at compile time. (BACK TO TOP)
These days its up to IPv6 Service providers to determine what IPv6 address prefix length they assign to each customer. This leads to the question: What lengths are commonly used for customer assignments? Let's see if we can answer it. (BACK TO TOP)
MemoryDB: Speed, Durability, and Composition. Blocks are fun. Earlier this week, my colleagues Yacine Taleb, Kevin McGehee, Nan Yan, Shawn Wang, Stefan Mueller, and Allen Samuels published Amazon MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database 1 . I’m excited about this paper, both because its a very cool system, and because it gives us an opportunity to talk about the power of composition in distributed systems, and about the power of distributed systems in general.e. (BACK TO TOP)
The concept of functions runs deep in software development. Pretty much every programming language has functions or something similar that delivers the same capabilities: a block of code that performs a specific task that you can call from anywhere. Functions are a fundamental part of C. Methods, functions associated with specific classes, are part of almost every object-oriented programming language. Even SQL has functions. They make it easier to make programs modular and code reusable.0.7. (BACK TO TOP)
During Developer Week 2024, we announced the revamped SDKs that are automatically generated using our OpenAPI schemas. Today, we’re taking a deeper look at how the pipeline works and share lessons we’ve learned along the way (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/
Last February, I wrote about a really bad bug that was randomly crashing my CPUs. With a virtual machine (VM) environment, if one CPU crashes then the VM can continue running while crippled. When the last CPU crashes, the VM is dead and needs to be restarted. This had been going on for nearly a year. I ended up building a huge monitoring infrastructure that could notify me when a problem developed. While it tried to catch the root cause, it only got close enough to narrow down the cause.4.4.4.4. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.carlpullein.com/blog/
In today’s digital age, the sheer volume of information we encounter can be overwhelming. Whether it’s meeting notes, personal projects or creative endeavours, managing digital notes has become valuable for productivity and effectiveness. Yet, the challenge lies not in doing the work itself but in organising our notes effectively so they are useful to us and reduce the time it takes to find the information we need when we need it. Yet, to do so, you need to see your notes randomly.99. (BACK TO TOP)
Remember Grunt files? Gulp files? We rarely need to think about CSS minification, chunking, splitting and post-processing anymore. Here's why. (BACK TO TOP)
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edgar Dijkstra, Notes on Structured Programming Dijkstra was famous for his spicy quips; he'd feel right at home on tech social media. He said things he knows aren't absolutely true but will get people listening to him. Even if a function has infinite inputs, tests prove the absence of bugs for tested inputs . 1 You can use testing to complete a proof. f(x) . There are two possible takeaways.. (BACK TO TOP)
The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for accepting a USD $1.7 million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that hacked thousands of e-commerce websites. The protection scheme was exposed in 2022 when Russian authorities arrested six members of the group, which sold millions of stolen payment cards at flashy online shops like Trump's Dumps. (BACK TO TOP)
This is a guest blog post from our community. Join our Discord to meet the author and connect with other developers passionate about Code Search and AI! SIMD, Single Instruction... (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ongoing.atom
The adaptive hash index help to improve performance of the already-fast B-tree lookups (BACK TO TOP)
Hello, I'm Taylor Troesh , connoisseur of crap. Naming things is already hard, and I'm here to make things harder: Aaaron : Your child could be an alphabetic god! Arlo : Sounds like a typeface. Ellamenope : "...E-F-G-LMNOP -- hey, I know that girl!" Grover : It's a cool name; don't shoot the messenger. Ivy Lee : She's going to Harvard! assorted "M" names : Matilda, Miriam, Mildred, Melody, Mercury, Micah, Merlin Taylor Jr. : I wanted to name my daughter Taylor Jr. (BACK TO TOP)
https://read.engineerscodex.com
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself. (BACK TO TOP)
Editor improvements We've made multiple quality of life improvements and bug fixes to the editor to create a smoother writing experience, whether you are creating an issue or drafting a project spec. You can now drag to re-arrange videos and drop images from outside Linear. We've also added support for GraphQL and improved TSX and JS support in code blocks. Read through some of the 70+ fixes and improvements we made to the editor below.app/mobile . (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does it work? From Evan Morikawa, who leads the Applied engineering team at OpenAI (BACK TO TOP)
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
A basic unit of currency in modern LLMs is the token ; exciting new models have long context windows of millions of tokens . API pricing for the large providers is per-token . We're even seeing the invention of new, derived units like TPM ( tokens per minute ). But what are tokens? This OpenAI help article tells us that tokens are pieces of words , and gives some useful rules of thumb like a token being equivalent to approximately 4 characters or 3/4 of a word for the English language..255]. (BACK TO TOP)
https://monzo.com/blog/technology
When we launched our new Monzo home screen, Katherine spent the past year focused on designing, launching and analysing experiments to understand how customers reacted to their new app. This blog explains how she measured change aversion. (BACK TO TOP)
Non-Functional Requirements vs functional requirements (BACK TO TOP)
A month ago I received an email from the organisers of Rust Nation UK 2024 inviting me to speak at the conference. One of the speakers got COVID and I was chosen to be their replacement. I had less than 48 hours to prepare the slides, which was a fun challenge, but very stressful! The final result was a talk about my work on elfo with the following abstract: Type-safe and fault-tolerant mesh services with Rust (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
Whether you're looking to boost your productivity, find more joy in your work, or simply be more present in the moment, you need flow — and research by Assistant Professor David Melnikoff could help you find it. Melnikoff investigates how we pursue our goals, and how flow — the state of being totally immersed and engaged in what we’re doing — can help us achieve them. With each action that we take, the path before us narrows, leading us more directly to the goal that we’ve set. (BACK TO TOP)
Meta is making lots of noise about being open, in everything from AI to the metaverse. This isn't desperation: it's smart strategy that understands Meta's true differentiation. (BACK TO TOP)
Optimization algorithms play a crucial role in training deep learning models. They control how a neural network is incrementally changed to model the complex relationships encoded in the training data. With an array of optimization algorithms available, the challenge often lies in selecting the most suitable one for your specific project. Whether you’re working on… (BACK TO TOP)
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7 simple steps to tackle any feedback situation (BACK TO TOP)
Explore the benefits and challenges of observability in multi-cloud deployments. See how Fluent Bit, a lightweight log collection and distribution tool, can enhance multi-cloud observability by improving cloud neutrality, cutting egress costs, and tackling compliance challenges. By Phil Wilkins (BACK TO TOP)
https://newsletter.programmingdigest.net/
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back (BACK TO TOP)
https://textual.textualize.io/
Behind the Curtain of Inline Terminal Applications Textual recently added the ability to run inline terminal apps.You can see this in action if you run the calculator example : The application appears directly under the prompt, rather than occupying the full height of the screen—which is more typical of TUI applications.You can interact with this calculator using keys or the mouse.When you press ++ctrl+c++ the calculator disappears and returns you to the prompt.youtube. (BACK TO TOP)
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1T5FMfoe_wNuCTx_zjdKj1jsubGuFnOIARmmFITmev3I/edit?usp=sharing Build a Voice Bot As seen on the Personal AI meetup! Build a Vapi Voice Bot: https://vapi.ai/ (full guide) Project: prompt engineering to make it hide a password (BACK TO TOP)
Structured output vs function calling, state of the AI engineering stack, when to NOT raise venture capital, and career advice for aspiring AI Engineers (BACK TO TOP)
https://jamesg.blog/openai.xml
OpenAI’s commitment to child safety: adopting safety by design principles (BACK TO TOP)
Introducing more enterprise-grade features for API customers (BACK TO TOP)
When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server. The post Llamafile’s progress, four months in appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In this blog post, we delve into the motivations for choosing Rust for our crash reporter, outline the unique challenges of designing an application that operates when the main browser has failed, and discuss the new architecture we've implemented. We also share insights into the technical nuances of the implementation, demonstrating how Rust's features are leveraged to handle crashes more effectively and securely. (BACK TO TOP)
Did you know that SQLite contains a full text search engine? The SQLite FTS4 and FTS5 Extensions allow you to perform full-text searches on documents loaded into SQLite. And since rqlite uses SQLite as its database engine, rqlite makes it really easy to deploy a highly-available search engine – and one you can interact with … Continue reading Building a highly-available search engine using SQLite → (BACK TO TOP)
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite has been updated to versions 8.23.1 through 8.23.3, bringing a series of targeted improvements to refine its internal operations and enhance overall stability. These updates focus on advancing the database’s core functionality through code refactoring and important … Continue reading Latest updates to rqlite 8.23 → (BACK TO TOP)
In today’s video I walk you through the process of hooking up Immich’s machine learning components to a Windows 11 system, primarily used as my personal gaming rig, running on WSL2, inside of a docker container with Nvidia hardware acceleration support. (BACK TO TOP)
The April newsletter from Tailscale, featuring product updates, highlights from the community, and information about upcoming events. (BACK TO TOP)
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Last week I attended the Linux Foundation Open Software Summit North America (OSSNA). The TLA+ Conference (which I wrote about here) was colocated with Linux OSSNA as a pre-conference event, and having made the continental cross, it made sense to stay for the first two days of OSSNA. Linus Torvalds would speak on day 2, and there were several sessions about different aspects of Linux ecosystem. The embedded opensource summit was also colocated with this event as well.5 million square feet... (BACK TO TOP)
The TLA+ foundation got established last year in April as an independent, non-profit organization under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. This April 15th, we colocated our annual TLA+ conference with the Linux OSSNA event to reach out to developers attending this event. Being under Linux Foundation, we didn't have to pay for the venue, but we paid $3K for professional recording of the sessions, so we can share the talks with the world at large. Brooker is a VP/distinguished engineer at AWS. (BACK TO TOP)
Go back to the roots: experience. An expert is someone who has repeatedly solved the concrete problem you are encountering. If your toilet leaks, an experienced plumber is an expert. An expert has a track record and has had to face the consequences of their work. Failing is part of what makes an expert: any … Continue reading How do you recognize an expert? (BACK TO TOP)
Suppose that you receive a long string and you need to break it down into lines. Consider the simplified problems where you need to break the string into segments of (say) 72 characters. It is a relevant problem if your string is a base64 string or a Fortran formatted statement. The problem could be a … Continue reading How quickly can you break a long string into lines? (BACK TO TOP)
Watch the rebroadcast of our ongoing weather outlook webinar series. Our experts will prepare you for potential weather impacts, and regionally, what to expect that may affect business decisions. The post Summer/Tropical Outlook 2024 Webinar Rebroadcast appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Visit us in Galveston, TX and learn more about the upcoming Atlantic Hurricane Season while we share new innovations in DTN tropical forecast techniques. The post Texas Mutual Assistance Group 2024 appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Check out this eye-opening, information-rich webinar rebroadcast to discover an innovative data-based predictive solution — designed specifically for utilities. The post Weather Risk Innovation in the U.K. Webinar Rebroadcast appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Recent is er verwarring: instellingen als SIDN claimen dat niemand in Europa nog in hun computerbehoeftes kan voorzien, en dat ze daarom wel moeten uitwijken naar Amerikaanse aanbieders. English version: Cloud Naïve: Europe and the ‘Bijenkorf’ Megascaler Tegelijkertijd hebben we in Nederland en Europa grote providers van servers en diensten die beweren dat zij dat soort diensten wel degelijk kunnen leveren. Wat is er aan de hand? IT diensten draaien op software en die draait weer op hardware. (BACK TO TOP)
A very practical introduction to Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs), in which we’ll build a non-trivial parser using the most excellent cpp-peglib single-include C++ library. Post includes links to PEG libraries for Go, Rust and Python, and a ready to run GitHub repository of all examples. If I’ll ever stop programming it will be because I can no longer find the energy to parse even just one more string format. (BACK TO TOP)
Over the past eight years I’ve held a trilogy of presentations over at NLNOG covering the working life and career of technical people. This is around two hours of video and slides (with notes), but I’ve heard from people who binge-watched all of it in one go. The presentations have been online for ages, but you had to know where to look for them. On this page I bring them all together, with some context. (BACK TO TOP)
Should a language be easy or comprehensive? (BACK TO TOP)
The home team talks about the current state of the software job market, the changing sentiments around AI job opportunities, the impact of big players like Facebook and OpenAI on the space, and the challenges for startups. Plus: The philosophical implications of LLMs and the friendship potential of corvids. (BACK TO TOP)
Ben and Ryan explore why configuration is so complicated, the right to repair, the best programming languages for beginners, how AI is grading exams in Texas, Automattic’s $125M acquisition of Beeper, and why a major US city’s train system still relies on floppy disks. Plus: The unique challenge of keeping up with a field that’s changing as rapidly as GenAI. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.timescale.com/blog/
Tired of running into the same connection errors in PostgreSQL? In this blog post, we tackle the most common and show you how to fix them. (BACK TO TOP)
PostgreSQL has emerged as the de facto database standard. Here is why this is happening and why it matters. (BACK TO TOP)
psql is one of the most popular tools to interact with your PostgreSQL database. Here are our top 10 psql commands to save you time. (BACK TO TOP)
The Babylon Bee ran this amazing bit last year: "Study Finds 100% Of Men Would Immediately Leave Their Desk Job If Asked To Embark Upon A Trans-Antarctic Expedition On A Big Wooden Ship". Yes. Exactly. Modern office workers are often starved for ambition, adventure, and even discomfort. This is why there's an endless line of recruits willing to sign up to work for leaders like Musk, despite his reputation for being an erratic hard ass. The ambition is worth it. Because real ambition is rare. (BACK TO TOP)
The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of "cutting off the air supply" , of embrace-extend-extinguish , of open source as a "cancer" , and of Bill Gates before he sought reputational refugee in philanthropy. What made the animosity so strong was the sense of being trapped. That the alternatives to the Wintel monopoly of the time was so inferior as to essentially require giving up on modern computing. Saved, even. Open source most of all.. (BACK TO TOP)
Google's announcement that they're done discussing politics at work widely echoed the policy changes Coinbase and we at 37signals did a few years back. So yesterday, I did two separate interviews with media outlets on the topic. And we spoke in part about those early weeks of reaction to our changes, as Twitter went crazy in response to the story. What was it like to briefly be the main, hated characters on the internet? In the moment, it was awful, but in retrospect, it was a gift. (BACK TO TOP)
After the disastrous launch of their Gemini AI , which insisted that George Washington was actually Black and couldn't decide whether Musk's tweets or Hitler was worse, Google's response was timid and weak. This was just a bug! A problem with QA! It absolutely, positively wasn't a reflection of corrupted culture at Google, which now appeared to put ideology over accuracy. I certainly did.e. inconvenient truths). Because Google provides cloud services to Israel, said the occupiers. Nope. Bravo. (BACK TO TOP)
Percona.connect, a series of free events hosted by Percona database performance experts, is coming to a city near you! This amazing learning opportunity spans six cities — across two continents — and includes educational sessions, customer testimonials, networking activities, and more. Don’t miss your chance to talk with technical evangelists, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB experts, Percona […] (BACK TO TOP)
Apples or oranges?Tea or coffee?Books or eBooks?Each of these comparisons has very similar features and serves many of the same purposes, but in the end, they are different choices people make. Do you know what else belongs on this list?MariaDB or MySQL?It’s time we discuss the age-old debate of MariaDB versus MySQL and see if […] (BACK TO TOP)
When data is everything, the sophistication of cybersecurity threats casts a shadow over the world of data security, including for those using PostgreSQL as their database of choice. Although renowned for its reliability, flexibility, and strong feature set, in the face of relentless cyber-attacks, even users of PostgreSQL can find themselves in a situation where […] (BACK TO TOP)
Yes, but now it likes them more, and here is why.IntroUsing the LIKE clause to filter triggers or views from a specific table is common. However, it can play a trick on you, especially if you don’t get to see the output (i.e., in a non-interactive session). Let’s take a look at a simple example […] (BACK TO TOP)
What lengths are commonly used by network operators to assign site prefixes to each customer? (BACK TO TOP)
APNIC conducted training on Peering, IXP, and Routing at the PCTA Tech Show 2024 held in Manila, Philippines from 1 to 5 April 2024. (BACK TO TOP)
Guest Post: New research studies the implementation of Internet sanctions in Europe. (BACK TO TOP)
How I leveraged APNIC Academy training into real-world productivity. (BACK TO TOP)
Guest Post: How programmable switches can handle collective offloading seamlessly. Challenges and future trends. (BACK TO TOP)
On April 9-10, we hosted our annual GrafanaCON event in Amsterdam. Focused on all things Grafana and its extended open source ecosystem, GrafanaCON 2024 had a jam-packed agenda, featuring two full days of technical talks and user success stories that highlighted all the incredible ways our community members use Grafana. Here, we highlight a handful of the GrafanaCON 2024 on-demand sessions you can start watching today.png" alt="The session card for the GrafanaCON 2024 opening keynote.0. (BACK TO TOP)
When deploying an application using Kubernetes, you get used to all your resources being manageable by describing them to the Kubernetes API. Whether it’s deployments, secrets, configurations, or entire machines, everything exists as code somewhere. Introducing a cloud service into such an environment often means introducing additional ways to configure it, which can become cumbersome, given the rising number of cloud services modern applications depend on.7.....integreatly.grafana.integreatly.. (BACK TO TOP)
“Okay,” said Bryan Boreham, distinguished engineer at Grafana Labs, as he took to the stage at GopherCon 2023 in September. “Who loves algorithms?” A room full of software engineers raised their hands in response — and with that, Bryan kicked off his talk at the annual event dedicated to the Go open source programming language. GopherCon 2023, which took place in San Diego, Calif. in September, featured Bryan as a speaker alongside other experts within the open source community. (BACK TO TOP)
At this point, the technical and operational benefits of cloud computing are pretty much indisputable. But the cloud industry, as a whole, still has a long way to go in one critical area: sustainability. In fact, as shocking as it may sound, it’s estimated that cloud data centers have a greater carbon footprint than the entire aviation industry . Ida Fürjesová and Niki Manoledaki, both software engineers at Grafana Labs, are passionate about helping to change that. (BACK TO TOP)
The Grafana OnCall mobile app is an essential tool for on-call engineers to monitor and respond to critical system events. Available for both iOS and Android, the app offers a range of features and notification settings that make the on-call experience easier and more intuitive — all in the palm of your hand. They can now rest easy, knowing that their device will respect their need for (occasional) peace and quiet, while making exceptions for truly critical events. Do Not Disturb mode in iOS vs. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Antitrust is a labor issue: Banning noncompetes is huge, but it's not all the FTC is doing! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest.25/hour, without their boss suing them: https://www.ftc. Will they win? It's hard to say.ftc.eff. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links The specific process by which Google enshittified its search: Ed Zitron has Prabhakar Raghavan bang to rights. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.bbc. (BACK TO TOP)
Pluralistic: "Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024)
Today's links "Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed: The particular torments of reverse-centaurs are drastically under-theorized. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest.ycombinator.semianalysis.eff. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Paying for it doesn't make it a market: But competition does. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. This represents a profound misunderstanding of how even capitalism's champions describe its workings.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.eff. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Greedflation, but for prisoners: The first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices is a fucking nightmare. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. Prisoners, after all, are a literal captive market.dollarsandsense.tpr.55.leg. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Precaratize bosses: When the ruling class tells you what motivates them, believe them the first time. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest." Let's talk about some of those accusations. This isn't a new development.theatlantic. (BACK TO TOP)
Ryan Carniato joins Amal & Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals, which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid. (BACK TO TOP)
First there was Mamba… now there is Jamba from AI21. This is a model that combines the best non-transformer goodness of Mamba with good ‘ol attention layers. This results in a highly performant and efficient model that AI21 has open sourced! We hear all about it (along with a variety of other LLM things) from AI21’s co-founder Yoav. (BACK TO TOP)
This week we’re joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it’s written in Rust. (BACK TO TOP)
The 3 Musketeers return! Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino continue their deep-dive conversation with Natalie about Go’s crypto libraries. Also listen to Part 1 and Part 2! (BACK TO TOP)
Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John O’Nolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for “businesses of all sizes” & nolen writes up questions to ask when you don’t want to work. (BACK TO TOP)
If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorp’s Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanics’ scary cool new robot, Justin Searls’ extensive use of the Apple Vision Pro, Thorston Ball moving from Vim to Zed, Firefox becoming hard to use, Beeper joining Automattic & more. (BACK TO TOP)
Paul Frazee joins the show to tell us all about how Bluesky builds, tests, and deploys mobile and web applications from the same code base. (BACK TO TOP)
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Large language models are famous for their ability to make things up—in fact, it’s what they’re best at. But their inability to tell fact from fiction has left many businesses wondering if using them is worth the risk. A new tool created by Cleanlab, an AI startup spun out of a quantum computing lab at… (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. An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary Until now, AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make… (BACK TO TOP)
Political fights over mining and minerals are heating up, and there are growing environmental and sociological concerns about how to source the materials the world needs to build new energy technologies. But low-emissions energy sources, including wind, solar, and nuclear power, have a smaller mining footprint than coal and natural gas, according to a new… (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. From toaster ovens that work as air fryers to hair dryers that can also curl your hair, single tools that do multiple jobs have an undeniable appeal. In the climate world, hydrogen… (BACK TO TOP)
I’m stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the rest of eternity? This makes it sound like I’m dying, but it’s the opposite. I am, in a way, about to live forever, thanks to the AI video startup Synthesia. For the past several years, the company has produced AI-generated avatars, but today… (BACK TO TOP)
A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU Langone Health reports that Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second. Her new kidney has just a single genetic modification—an approach that researchers hope… (BACK TO TOP)
Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that makes it possible to spy on what users are typing. The vulnerability, which allows the keystroke data that these apps send to the cloud to be intercepted, has existed for years and could have been exploited by cybercriminals and… (BACK TO TOP)
Digital addiction is bad for your mental and physical health. Learn what trends encourage this concerning behavior and how to avoid it. The post Combating addictive design is the UX challenge of 2024 appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Angela Suthrave talks about the importance of understanding the assumptions, foundations, and boundaries behind a strategy. The post Leader Spotlight: Understanding the root of the strategy, with Angela Suthrave appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
A pivot helps organizations (established or start-ups) to seek better growth opportunities and respond swiftly to market feedback. The post What is a pivot in business? Strategies and implications appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Radix UI is quickly rising in popularity and has become an excellent go-to solution for building modern design systems and websites. The post Radix UI adoption guide: Overview, examples, and alternatives appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
An after-action review refers to the process of conducting an in-depth study of an event after the fact, focusing on continuous learning. The post A guide to conducting an effective after-action review (AAR) appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
This article aims to inspire you with 21 carefully hand-picked UX case study examples, each offering valuable lessons. The post 21 UX case studies to learn from in 2024 appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
David Bloom shares the importance of storytelling in product, and how talking to people the right way enables them to be effective. The post Leader Spotlight: The importance of being a good storyteller, with David Bloom appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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Observability is foundational to application and infrastructure performance. That’s why it’s fitting that OpenTelemetry is the second most active project in the CNCF after Kubernetes. Today CNCF ambassador Dotan Horovits tells us about the project: OpenTelemetry is a uniform, vendor-agnostic observability framework for generating and collecting telemetry data across both infrastructure and application, across different ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
The expectations for application delivery are higher than ever before, the networks that support those applications are increasingly distributed, and visibility is essential for network operations and troubleshooting. On today’s sponsored episode, Kentik’s Phil Gervasi joins us to discuss how Kentik collects essential performance data to help you monitor and manage all the networks your ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
What makes for a good manager, director, and independent contributor (IC), and how do you figure out which is the best fit for you? Hazel Weakly has had a whirlwind tour of all three and is ready to share her insight into each. We talk about the skill set needed for each, and figuring out ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
IoT devices are often like the tiny aliens in the locker in Men in Black: They’ve created a whole little world on your network without almost any humans knowing they exist. Today Troy Martin joins the show to teach us the basics of how to find and secure IoT devices on your network, specifically focusing ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Right now we’re in the first generation of edge architecture. We won’t even really know how to define it until we’re past it. Greg and Johna discuss the operational milieu in which the edge is forming: Vast numbers of IoT devices, increased remote computing capabilities, questions around cloud operational costs and efficiency, and vendors jostling ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Take a Network Break! This week we cover Hypershield, a new Cisco security product that uses technology from its Isovalent acquisition. We parse a blog from Broadcom CEO Hock Tan on the company’s VMware strategy, and discuss China’s latest counter-punch in its tech infrastructure fight with the United States. A KPMG survey reveals that executives ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security services including next-gen firewall, CASB, secure web gateway, and others. You can mix and match your SD-WAN and cloud security, but today Rajesh Kari from Palo Alto Networks is here to advocate for the benefits of their single-vendor option. We talk performance, security, and ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
HN730: Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing and More Transform Their Branches with Next-Gen SD-WAN and SASE (Sponsored)
If you haven’t made the leap from traditional wide area networking to SD-WAN, or perhaps you’re thinking about adding security services to your SD-WAN infrastructure, this episode is for you. Rajesh Kari from Palo Alto Networks joins the show to share customer stories from the front lines of multi-branch businesses’ networks. Industry verticals including retail, ... Read more » (BACK TO TOP)
What’s a secret to getting more students to participate in an IEEE society? Give them a seat at the table so they have a say in how the organization is run. That’s what the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society has done. Budding engineers serve on the RAS board of directors, have voting privileges, and work within technical committees. The SAC is responsible for student programs and benefits. It also makes recommendations to the society’s board about new offerings.D.D. program at Heidelberg.D.” (BACK TO TOP)
Ever since Return of the Jedi premiered in 1983, people have been imagining the day when they, like the film’s protagonist Luke Skywalker, would get to ride speeder bikes that zip across the landscape while hovering just a few meters above the ground. In the intervening years, there have been numerous claims made by companies that they’ve figured out how to make a real-world product that mimics movie magic. “With the current approaches, I think it’s just going to be a while.S.2 million machine. (BACK TO TOP)
Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were conducting training exercises nearby, and mortar shells arced through the sky. We arrived at a vast field for a technology demonstration set up by the United Nations. Across the 25-hectare field—that’s about the size of 62 American football fields—the U.N. workers had scattered 50 to 100 inert mines and other ordnance.N. All our hard work paid off.D.N. (BACK TO TOP)
At some point, our phone habits changed. It used to be that if the phone rang, you answered it. With the advent of caller ID, you’d only pick up if it was someone you recognized. And now, with spoofing and robocalls, it can seem like a gamble to pick up the phone, period. In 2023, robocall blocking service Youmail estimates there were more than 55 billion robocalls in the United States. David Frankel is the founder of ZipDX , a company that provides audioconferencing solutions.” (BACK TO TOP)
The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the future direction of IEEE and is committed to ensuring IEEE remains a strong and vibrant organization—serving the needs of its members and the engineering and technology community worldwide—while fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. This article features IEEE Board of Directors members Sergio Benedetto, Jenifer Castillo, and Fred Schindler. Benedetto has been active in digital communications for more than 40 years. (BACK TO TOP)
In the mid-1960s, Robert Kahn began thinking about how computers with different operating systems could talk to each other across a network. He didn’t think much about what they would say to one another, though. He was a theoretical guy, on leave from the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a stint at the nearby research-and-development company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). He simply found the problem interesting.” Robert E.A. 1962 and Ph.D.S.D.C.K. “Bob had that.S.S.” (BACK TO TOP)
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. It is intended to be used in future space missions to explore small celestial bodies.The project began in 2021 as an ETH focus project for bachelor’s students. Now, it is being continued as a regular research project. [ CMU ] (BACK TO TOP)
Xometry’s essential guide reveals the transformative power of artificial intelligence in supply chain optimisation. It lifts the lid on how machine learning, natural language processing, and big data, can streamline procurement and enhance operations efficiency. The guide showcases applications across various sectors such as healthcare, construction, retail, and more, offering actionable insights and strategies. Download this free whitepaper now! (BACK TO TOP)
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