Bulletin for Friday, 16 Sep 2022
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Tech at Meta (1)
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The Technium (1)
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
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- How to efficiently write millions of records in the cloud and not go bankrupt — an Azure CosmosDB case study
Earthly Blog (2)
- How thermal simulation helps optimize Meta’s data centers
- MemLab: An open source framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks
Weaveworks (2)
- Safety Fast with Weave GitOps Trusted & Progressive Delivery
- September Release - Weave GitOps 2022.09
The Ably Blog (2)
- Belonging at Ably: Fostering diversity & inclusion in talent acquisition
- Key choices in AWS network design: VPC peering vs Transit Gateway and beyond
- Test your team’s security readiness with the Gone Phishing Tournament
- Implementing a Zero Trust strategy after compromise recovery
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (2)
Sentry Blog RSS (2)
- An iOS developer's first impressions of Flutter
- How a Product Studio Mitigates User Friction with Performance Monitoring
- On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services
- Vertrek TIB
- De Wet op Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten 2017
Google AI Blog (3)
- PaLI: Scaling Language-Image Learning in 100+ Languages
- LOLNeRF: Learn from One Look
- Learning to Walk in the Wild from Terrain Semantics
- Using Cloudflare R2 as an apt/yum repository
- How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
- Ethereum Gateway support for Görli + Sepolia Testnets and the Ethereum Merge
- Say Hello to Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers
- Wormable Flaw, 0days Lead Sept. 2022 Patch Tuesday
- Transacting in Person with Strangers from the Internet
The CircleCI Blog Feed - CircleCI (4)
- DevOps top programming languages support engineering metrics goals
- Canary vs blue-green deployment to reduce enterprise downtime
- Automate testing for a Vue.js application
- Mobile app security testing: tools and best practices
Timescale Blog (4)
- How We’re Raising the Bar on Hosted Database Support
- How to Choose the Best Time-Series Database for Your Project
- Database Scaling: PostgreSQL Caching Explained
- Data Visualization Examples: How to Create Pie Charts in Grafana
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (4)
- Kubernetes Unpacked 009: Kubernetes Automation And Repeatability
- Day Two Cloud 163: Is The Tech Market Too Focused On Developers?
- Network Break 398: New Broadcom Trident Chip Supports Threat Analysis; Startup Challenges SD-WAN, MPLS
- Heavy Networking 646: Networking For Spacefaring Rockets
- Scaling multilingual virtual assistants to 1,000 languages
- Interspeech 2022: The growth of interdisciplinary research
- Amazon scientists win best-paper award for ad auction simulator
- Amazon and Harvard launch alliance to advance research in quantum networking
- Master’s student uses SURE opportunity to explore impact of machine learning
- Stay agile out there (Go Time #247)
- Kaizen! Four PRs, one big feature (Ship It! #70)
- Stable Diffusion (Practical AI #193)
- Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web (The Changelog)
- Typesense is truly open source search (The Changelog #505)
- Seth Godin is the new Mark Twain (JS Party #242)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (6)
- Pluralistic: 15 Sep 2022 California's antitrust case against Amazon
- Pluralistic: 14 Sep 2022 The Chokepoint Capitalism tour!
- Pluralistic: 13 Sep 2022 Survival of the Richest
- Pluralistic: 12 Sep 2022 Spotify is a ripoff, a Spotify exclusive
- Pluralistic: 10 Sep 2022 American healthcare did a fuckery, the White House has a plan for Big Tech big-data
- Pluralistic: 09 Sep 2022 How to die without getting rooked
- Why the number input is the worst input
- What science says about flow state (Ep. 484)
- Forrester Consulting TEI Study: Five ways Stack Overflow for Teams delivered 191% ROI
- Hackathons and free pizza: All about Stack Overflow’s new Student Ambassador Program (Ep. 483)
- The many problems with implementing Single Sign-On
- The Overflow #142: The bane of bossware
- Plug-and-play AI for your own projects (Ep. 482)
Cloud Blog (11)
- Sign up for the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge
- Test your skills in the Google Maps Platform Hackathon
- Try out Cloud Spanner databases at no cost with new free trial instances
- Introducing Datastream for BigQuery
- Come for the sample app, stay for the main course: Cloud Spanner free trial instances
- Latest database innovations for transforming the customer experience
- Introducing fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner: A new way to protect your data in Spanner
- Migrate your most demanding enterprise PostgreSQL databases to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with Database Migration Service
- Golang’s database/sql driver support for Cloud Spanner is now Generally Available
- Register for Google Cloud Next
- A search recipe for grocers: Ingredients for success in eCommerce
The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit. Whenever people ask me for advice on career growth, I share what has worked reasonably well for me: find a growth company, one that really needs you to get work done, and then tackle the unpleasant work that everyone avoids. When growth is high you also win by doing, rather than winning by getting ahead politically. Think of joining Coinbase pre-layoffs..etc. (BACK TO TOP)
“Cities are technological artifacts,” Kevin Kelly once wrote, “the largest technology we make.” What if we looked at America’s cities not metaphorically as tech, but literally as a technological system? Rather than fighting about politics, we’d ask our cities the mundane questions that engineers and entrepreneurs ask about any other technology: “Is it expensive to... Read More The post Our Cities Have an API Problem. Startups Can Fix It. appeared first on Future . (BACK TO TOP)
Not all engineering work at Tailscale requires changing Go internals or deep insights into how to leverage the birthday paradox for NAT traversal. There are countless small bugs and edge cases that we investigate in our quest to meet an unreasonably high percentile of our users’ expectations. This is the story of one such investigation. In mid-May, Brad deployed a set of stateless reverse proxies in front of Tailscale’s coordination server .g...31.10.244:https->1.2.3.31.10.244:https->1.2.3.2.3. (BACK TO TOP)
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No Newsletter Next Week I’m frantically working on next Wednesday’s TLA+ Workshop . I started making it last month and it’s occupied all my time since. Originally this newsletter was going to be about the essential vs accidental complexity in teaching a topic, but a couple of things intervened to change that. I’ll probably save that one for after Strange Loop. And two bits of internet poisoning inspired a sudden change in the newsletter topic. This tweet: 1992: The humanities are useless. ↩ (BACK TO TOP)
The electrical grid is transforming as older, less efficient fossil fuel generation plants are closing and more wind and solar farms are added to the system. These changes, however, can introduce additional complexity to a system that requires new tools to help the grid transition reliably. At the same time, companies are attempting to reach […] The post Exploring energy storage for grid innovation appeared first on Tech at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Debug Tools are a set of features that give you a faster way to investigate and debug errors in your Retool apps. Ship apps more confidently by understanding why queries run, the chain of events, and more—all in Retool. (BACK TO TOP)
AI is starting to unbundle the final part of the idea propagation value chain: idea creation and substantiation. The impacts will be far-reaching. (BACK TO TOP)
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A broad overview of the data engineering field by former Facebook data engineer Benjamin Rogojan. Part 1. (BACK TO TOP)
This is part 15 of a series about my experiences being a parent. Read the rest here . We’re having another baby. Gaby’s been a blunt advocate for more ever since we got Oscar home. She muted her arguments when we were considering whether to have any children because she wanted to give me a free choice about my life’s wide arc. But now that we have one child our lifetype is set, and discussions about more are just debates about parameters. Gaby loved being pregnant with Oscar. It’s not possible. (BACK TO TOP)
An internship at Slack is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills, meet other engineers, and build cool stuff. This was the reality for three interns on the Data Engineering team this summer. Throughout our time in this flex-work environment, we got to experience both the wide reach of the virtual environment and the benefits […] The post Our Hybrid and Collaborative Summer @ Slack’s Data Eng appeared first on Slack Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to build an automated DevOps pipeline with AWS Lightsail, CodeBuild, and PlanetScale. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
A great piece on why printing arose fast in Europe though invented first in China and Korea. Part of the answer of why science arose first in Europe and not China. https://t.co/cmf0ikJzIV — Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) September 5, 2022 (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
Why do we drive on only one side of the road? Why don’t we sing in libraries? Why wear a swimsuit? For Professor Michele Gelfand , it all comes down to culture. As a cross-cultural psychologist, Gelfand is fascinated by social environments and their effects on human behavior, particularly, how strictly people adhere to social norms.” SHOW NOTES Stanford GSB Insights Threatening Language Can Be Contagious. This New Tool Tracks Its Spread Why the Pandemic Slammed “Loose” Countries Like the U.S. (BACK TO TOP)
A modern CPU is an incredible machine. It can execute many instructions at the same time, it can re-order instructions to ensure that memory accesses and dependency chains don’t impact performance too much, it contains hundreds of registers, and it has huge areas of silicon devoted to predicting which branches your code will take. (BACK TO TOP)
sponsor TimescaleDB – The modern Postgres for time-series The open-source relational database for time-series with proven reliability and scale. Try TimescaleDB for free–no credit card required. this week's favorite What Distinguishes Great Software Engineers? Software engineering research has long aspired to develop an understanding of what it means to be a “great” engineer. If not, you can hit “back” in your browser. It’s cool, no harm no foul. To add some meat to this. (BACK TO TOP)
Hello! When I was writing the zine How DNS Works earlier this year, someone asked me – why do people sometimes put a dot at the end of a domain name? For example, if you look up the IP for example.com by running dig example.com , you’ll see this: $ dig example.com example.com. 5678 IN A 93.184.216.34 dig has put a . to the end of example.com – now it’s example.com. ! What’s up with that? Also, some DNS tools require domains to have a "." at the end: if you try to pass example.Msg) m.com", dns.2. (BACK TO TOP)
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This paper is from VLDB 2022. It takes the MVCC system developed in Hyper and adopts it to a memory-optimized disk-based (not the spinning type, SSDs really) database system so that the system can handle a very large database that won't fit in RAM while achieving very high performance. Motivation and introduction As in-memory databases were conceived, it was assumed that main memory sizes would rise in accord with the amount of data in need of processing.e.g.e.4 GHz.2 × over PostgreSQL, 27. (BACK TO TOP)
CockroachDB’s integration with Teleport enables our joint customers to improve their security posture, meet compliance requirements and have access to a full audit trail (BACK TO TOP)
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
Proof using the limit definition As a prerequisite for this proof, let's reorder the original definition of e slightly. If we perform a change of variable replacing n by \frac{1}{m} , we get: [e=\displaystyle \lim_{m \to 0}\left ( 1+m \right )^\frac{1}{m} \tag{1}] This equation will become useful a bit later. The way out - as is often the case in such scenarios - is a sneaky change of variable. Note that as h approaches zero, so does m . (BACK TO TOP)
How to efficiently write millions of records in the cloud and not go bankrupt — an Azure CosmosDB case study
Cloud providers like to brag about high availability and unlimited scaling of their services – and they are correct, as these features are indeed significant advantages of cloud solutions. Their computational power is so high that for most use cases, it’s almost unlimited. In this blog post, I would like to tell you about our experiences with Azure Cosmos DB and batch processing. Our story At Allegro Pay we are taking advantage of Azure’s no-SQL database, Cosmos DB.Get(record.microsoft.CosmosDb. (BACK TO TOP)
Introduction Here at Earthly, we care a lot about builds and talk to many people about their struggles with builds and CI. A frequent topic of conversation, especially if an organization has a monorepo and more than 500 developers, is Bazel, Google’s open-sourced monorepo build system. So I interviewed 6 Bazel experts 1 and asked them what they like about Bazel, when they would use it, and what to expect or consider before doing a Bazel migration. It’s a long read, and I promise, it’s worth it. (BACK TO TOP)
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you had to format your computer and manually reinstall all the programs you were using? Or did you change machines and have to go to the page of each of the software you use and download and run the installer one by one? Or even customize some mouse/keyboard settings? This is a bit of work for everyone, but it’s even more work for devs. in front of the filename to make that file, by default, a hidden file, i.e. For example, `/home/.bashrc Git: .. (BACK TO TOP)
When programming, we often have to ‘escape’ strings. A standard way to do it is to insert the backslash character () before some characters such as the double quote. For example, the string my title is "La vie" becomes my title is "La vie" A simple routine in C++ to escape a string might look … Continue reading Escaping strings faster with AVX-512 (BACK TO TOP)
A standard dataset in artificial-intelligence research has ten percent of its images mislabeled. Yet state-of-the-art algorithms achieve better-than-90% classification on the same dataset. (Credit: Leo Boytsov) Despite the reeducation camps and the massive trauma, families that did well before the Chinese socialist revolution are still doing well. In other words, it is difficult and maybe … Continue reading Science and Technology links (September 12 2022) (BACK TO TOP)
Data center optimization has always played an important role at Meta. By optimizing our data centers’ environmental controls, we can reduce our environmental impact while ensuring that people can always depend on our products. With most other complex systems, optimization of energy consumption is a trial-and-error process. But experimenting on any component of a live [...] Read More... The post How thermal simulation helps optimize Meta’s data centers appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
We’ve open-sourced MemLab, a JavaScript memory testing framework that automates memory leak detection. Finding and addressing the root cause of memory leaks is important for delivering a quality user experience on web applications. MemLab has helped engineers and developers at Meta improve user experience and make significant improvements in memory optimization. We hope it will [...] Read More... (BACK TO TOP)
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The LinkedIn infrastructure has thousands of services serving millions of queries per second. At this scale, having tools that provide observability into the LinkedIn infrastructure is imperative to ensure that issues in our infrastructure are quickly detected, diagnosed, and remediated. This level of visibility helps prevent the occurrence of outages so we can deliver the best experience for our members. Once collected, the data points can then be processed […] (BACK TO TOP)
Co-authors: Hangfei Lin, Jinghui Mo We’re excited to announce today that Feathr is joining LF AI & Data, the Linux Foundation’s umbrella foundation supporting open source innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and data. Feathr is a feature store that simplifies machine learning (ML) feature serving and improves developer productivity. Ibrahim Haddad, Executive Director of LF AI & Data. “We aim to […] (BACK TO TOP)
Building better code faster is one of the common goals of DevOps teams. The DORA “State of DevOps Report” states “excellence in software delivery and operational performance drives organisational performance” or in other words the speed at which an organisation can ship new features and fixes has a direct impact on business performance. With increased speed of software delivery comes increased risk of something going wrong; as the saying goes “More haste less speed”.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Today we are announcing the September 2022 release of Weave GitOps. This release brings exciting new features including enhancements to Trusted Delivery with built-in curated library of policies and progressive delivery . Team Workspaces smoothing the way for multi-tenancy and productivity improvements for developers. Trusted Delivery Getting new features and fixes into production quickly and safely is at the heart of DevOps teams goals. (BACK TO TOP)
We celebrate individuality at Ably and have transformed the recruitment process so candidates feel they belong right from the start. (BACK TO TOP)
Some of the decisions we faced as we design and build the next iteration of Ably's global network. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/
In partnership with Microsoft, Terranova created the Gone Phishing Tournament, an online phishing initiative that uses real-world simulations to establish accurate phishing clickthrough rates and additional benchmarking statistics for user behaviors. The post Test your team’s security readiness with the Gone Phishing Tournament appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
After a compromise recovery follows what we call a Security Strategic Recovery. This is the plan for moving forward to get up to date with security posture all over the environment. The plan consists of different components like securing privileged access and extended detection and response, but it all points in the same direction: moving ahead with Zero Trust Strategy over traditional network-based security. (BACK TO TOP)
A little about myself I’ve been working in mobile app development since 2010, initially with Adobe AIR and PhoneGap, but for nearly ten… (BACK TO TOP)
Our developers easily identify and resolve performance bottlenecks – like querying the database while iterating over a collection rather than prefetching –, resulting in up to orders of magnitude fewer database queries, and shorter response times. (BACK TO TOP)
I’ve seen some mediocre automated translations of my Dutch language resignation statement go round. To prevent any confusion, please find the story here in English: Until today I was one of the three members of the board that checks warrants for the Dutch intelligence and security services. This board is called “Toetsingscommissie Inzet Bevoegdheden” or TIB. (BACK TO TOP)
Vandaag was mijn laatste dag als lid van de Toetsingscommissie Inzet Bevoegdheden Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten (TIB), de commissie die vooraf bindend toetst of de voorgenomen inzet van de zwaarste bevoegdheden van de AIVD en MIVD rechtmatig is. (BACK TO TOP)
Recent is er een nieuw wetsvoorstel gepresenteerd bedoeld om de AIVD en de militaire MIVD meer ruimte te geven om onderzoek te doen naar landen met een offensief cyberprogramma. Op deze pagina bespreek ik de zwaarste bevoegdheden die de diensten hebben om hun werk te doen. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Xi Chen and Xiao Wang, Software Engineers, Google Research Advanced language models (e.g., GPT , GLaM , PaLM and T5 ) have demonstrated diverse capabilities and achieved impressive results across tasks and languages by scaling up their number of parameters. Vision-language (VL) models can benefit from similar scaling to address many tasks, such as image captioning , visual question answering (VQA), object recognition , and in-context optical-character-recognition (OCR).g.).g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Daniel Rebain, Student Researcher, and Mark Matthews, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research, Perception Team An important aspect of human vision is our ability to comprehend 3D shape from the 2D images we observe. Achieving this kind of understanding with computer vision systems has been a fundamental challenge in the field. For example, it isn’t necessarily possible to tell the difference between an image of an actual beach and an image of a flat poster of the same beach.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Yuxiang Yang, Student Researcher, Robotics at Google An important promise for quadrupedal robots is their potential to operate in complex outdoor environments that are difficult or inaccessible for humans. Whether it’s to find natural resources deep in the mountains, or to search for life signals in heavily-damaged earthquake sites, a robust and versatile quadrupedal robot could be very helpful. In these environments, the robot needs to understand not only the terrain shape (e.g.g.e.e. (BACK TO TOP)
Host your apt/yum repositories like how Cloudflare Tunnel does. Here's how (BACK TO TOP)
Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day (BACK TO TOP)
Today we are excited to announce support for the upcoming Ethereum Merge and Sepolia and Görli testnet support (BACK TO TOP)
A number of financial institutions in and around New York City are dealing with a rash of super-thin "deep insert" card skimming devices designed to fit inside the mouth of an ATM's card acceptance slot. The card skimmers are paired with tiny pinhole cameras that are cleverly disguised as part of the cash machine. Here's a look at some of the more sophisticated deep insert skimmer technology that fraud investigators have recently found in the wild. (BACK TO TOP)
This month's Patch Tuesday offers a little something for everyone, including security updates for a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Windows that is under active attack, and another Windows weakness experts say could be used to power a fast-spreading computer worm. Also, Apple has also quashed a pair of zero-day bugs affecting certain macOS and iOS users, and released iOS 16, which includes a nifty new privacy and security feature called "Lockdown Mode. (BACK TO TOP)
Communities like Craigslist, OfferUp, Facebook Marketplace and others are great for finding low- or no-cost stuff that one can pick up directly from a nearby seller, and for getting rid of useful things that don't deserve to end up in a landfill. But when dealing with strangers from the Internet, there is always a risk that the person you've agreed to meet has other intentions. (BACK TO TOP)
This post, authored by CircleCI Senior Technical Content Marketing Manager Jacob Schmitt, was originally published on The New Stack . One of the privileges of working in the continuous integration space is the unique perspective it offers into how software teams organize their work to deliver value quickly without sacrificing quality, security, or developer happiness. At CircleCI, we support more than 2 million developers running 90 million build, test, and deploy jobs each month. 30, 2021. (BACK TO TOP)
Even before the cloud, no one liked deployment downtime. With applications hosted in traditional data centers that restricted access for local users, many organizations scheduled deployments when users were less likely to be using the applications, like the middle of the night. With widespread adoption of cloud-based, 24x7 environments available from all time zones, every hour of the day, easy-to-find deployment windows are gone. Don’t rename or reuse columns for different purposes. (BACK TO TOP)
This tutorial covers: Creating and setting up a Vue.js application Writing automated tests for Vue components Setting up a continuous integration pipeline One of the leading frameworks in the JavaScript community, Vue.js is a progressive framework for building reusable components for the web user interface. Its intuitive API and robust flexibility for handling front-end logic are just two of the reasons that Vue has been adopted by developers worldwide.18.0. A CircleCI account. A GitHub account. (BACK TO TOP)
To minimize the security risks of an application, developers need their apps to stand up to stringent security testing. Fortunately, there are tools available that simplify and even automate these security tests. There are also best practices to guide and inform the testing process. In this article, I will cover the most common security issues for mobile apps and highlight popular security tests. Take the instance of a rooted device or a reverse-engineered app. (BACK TO TOP)
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More than just helping you when your hosted database is down (knock on wood), the Timescale Support Team is raising the bar and guiding users through migrations, data modeling, and query performance. Here’s how we do it and why. (BACK TO TOP)
In a world with more data, where measuring what matters is critical, your time-series database needs to be scalable, reliable, and user-friendly. Here’s how you can choose the best time-series database for your project. (BACK TO TOP)
shared_buffers are the second most important part of configuring (and scaling) your PostgreSQL instance. In the first of a series of posts, we start by explaining what they are and how they’re designed. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to create two classic data visualization examples in Grafana using just SQL: pie and donut charts. (BACK TO TOP)
In this episode, host Michael Levan talks with Ned Bellavance about why orchestration is important in today’s world, how the HashiCorp stack (primarily Terraform and Vault) fit into Kubernetes, and more. The post Kubernetes Unpacked 009: Kubernetes Automation And Repeatability appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today on the Day Two Cloud podcast we have a frank discussion about tech marketing. Why? Because engineers are a target of marketing, so it's helpful to know how marketing works, what's trying to be communicated, and how it could be better. We also discuss whether the tech industry has over-committed on chasing developers while ignoring operations and sysadmins, why ops and sysadmins shouldn't be ignored, and more. Our guest is Gina Rosenthal, founder of Digital Sunshine Solutions. (BACK TO TOP)
Network Break 398: New Broadcom Trident Chip Supports Threat Analysis; Startup Challenges SD-WAN, MPLS
Today's Network Break podcast examines a new Broadcom switch ASIC that can support threat analysis, a startup that's challenging the SD-WAN and MPLS markets, Apple's new partner for an emergency SMS service that uses satellites, a great quarter for data center switch revenue, and more IT news. The post Network Break 398: New Broadcom Trident Chip Supports Threat Analysis; Startup Challenges SD-WAN, MPLS appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today on Heavy Networking, aerospace networking. We talk with Lexie Cooper, who works for Blue Origin as an Avionics Integration Engineer. That’s right. Lexie does networking for rockets. We talk about the challenges of building networks for spacefaring vehicles, differences between aerospace and the typical enterprise, continuous learning, the pros and cons of building a social media presence, and more. (BACK TO TOP)
Self-supervised training, distributed training, and knowledge distillation have delivered remarkable results, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg. (BACK TO TOP)
Cyclic training of speech synthesis and speech recognition models and language understanding for better speech prosody are just a few examples of cross-pollination in speech-related fields. (BACK TO TOP)
Paper introduces a unified view of the learning-to-bid problem and presents AuctionGym, a simulation environment that enables reproducible validation of new solutions. (BACK TO TOP)
Collaboration will seek to advance the development of a quantum internet. (BACK TO TOP)
The alumna of the 2021 Columbia SURE Amazon cohort becomes the first Amazon MS Fellow at Columbia. (BACK TO TOP)
Inbal Cohen, Product expert and Agile evangelist, joins Natalie & Angelica for a conversation about all things Agile. Inbal lays out some agile tips for Go devs, discusses if and how remote work changes things, describes some downsides of the methodology, and more. (BACK TO TOP)
In today’s Kaizen episode, we talk about shipping Adam’s Christmas present: chapter support for all Changelog episodes that we now publish. This feature was hard because there are many subtle differences in how the ID3 spec is implemented. Of course, once the PR shipped, there were other issues to solve, including an upgrade the world kind of scenario. Since Lars Wikman did all the heavy ID3 lifting, he is here with us too. (BACK TO TOP)
The new stable diffusion model is everywhere! Of course you can use this model to quickly and easily create amazing, dream-like images to post on twitter, reddit, discord, etc., but this technology is also poised to be used in very pragmatic ways across industry. In this episode, Chris and Daniel take a deep dive into all things stable diffusion. They discuss the motivations for the work, the model architecture, and the differences between this model and other related releases (e.g., DALL·E 2). (BACK TO TOP)
Quality is systemic, React is a self-fulfilling prophecy, Difftastic, Devbox & the shortest URLs on the web (The Changelog)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss writes up a hot take on software quality, Wilfred Hughes creates the diff tool he’s always wanted, Josh Collinsworth thinks React is only great at being popular, Jetpack’s Devbox project looks pretty cool & James Williams sets out to find the shortest URLs on the internet. Oh, and chapters are here! (BACK TO TOP)
This week we’re joined by Jason Bosco, co-founder and CEO of Typesense — the open source Algolia alternative and the easier to use ElasticSearch alternative. For years we’ve used Algolia as our search engine, so we come to this conversation with skin in the game and the scars to prove it. (BACK TO TOP)
Jerod, KBall & Nick “Holla!” at React India, share what we’re excited about these days, and then take up a KBall topic that goes off the rails but manages to climb back on them, power through, and end up in a good place. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links California's antitrust case against Amazon: Amazon's monopoly is so noisy, it even managed to wake antitrust's King Log. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. It's true, antitrust spent 40 year in a coma! The Amazon case neatly illustrates how it was sedated, and why it finally roused. Back in the Reagan years, antitrust underwent a profound change. They become "too big to fail" and "too big to jail." https://marker.medium." Under Reagan, the business lobby got its way.bbc.co. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links The Chokepoint Capitalism tour: Ottawa, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles (and beyond!) Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This is my first tour since the pandemic hit; I had four (!) book releases during the first year of the lockdown and did a slew of online events. In some ways, these were amazing: I could do a UK event in the morning and a US event in the evening.beacon.org/Assets/ClientPages/History. But the events themselves promise to be great.medium.cira. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Survival of the Richest: Douglas Rushkoff on the eschatology of libertarian exit. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.theguardian. Rushkoff realized that these guys were obsessed with outrunning the end of the world that they were creating through their drive to outrun the end of the world. They were singularly uninterested in preventing the end of the world, or even in surviving it through solidarity and mutual aid. It's great. https://wwnorton. Or orbit. Or Mars.pmpress.eff. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Spotify steals from artists, a Spotify exclusive: More Chokepoint Capitalism stunt-publishing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. No company epitomizes the hopelessness of this approach more than Spotify. You've probably heard about the pathetic sums that creators earn from the Spotify streaming, often blamed on the tech industry's unwillingness to pay creators what they're worth. But Taylor Swift alone can't save us (though some of her fans might take a different view!).net. (BACK TO TOP)
Pluralistic: 10 Sep 2022 American healthcare did a fuckery, the White House has a plan for Big Tech big-data
Today's links American healthcare did a fuckery: A trillion prices can't be wrong. The White House has a plan for Big Tech: Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Biden all agree. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. I know this is hard to believe, given the probity and honor we associate with our fine insurance companies, but the evidence is incontrovertible. This is one of those pox-on-all-your-houses/you-can't-get-there-from-here situations. That's all true, as far as it goes.humana.uhc. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Guide to a ripoff-free funeral: Terminal-stage capitalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/ Indeed, the situation is so grim that I've often joked about leaving my body to med-school pranks: corpse at the alumni dinner, arm hanging from a toll-booth, etc. But for the mourners whose grief is turned into cash, this is no laughing matter.propublica. When your loved one dies, the first thing to remember is that "death is not an emergency.co. (BACK TO TOP)
Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't. The post Why the number input is the worst input appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We chat with Thomas Fritz, Associate Professor of Human Aspects of Software Engineering, about what makes developers more productive. The post What science says about flow state (Ep. 484) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In a new study commissioned by Stack Overflow, The Total Economic Impact of Stack Overflow for Teams, Forrester Consulting found that customers saved $9.5M over three years with a payback period of less than 6 months. The post Forrester Consulting TEI Study: Five ways Stack Overflow for Teams delivered 191% ROI appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Ben, fresh from launching Stack Overflow’s new Student Ambassador Program, tells Matt about partnering with Major League Hacking, the young programmers eager to get back to in-person events, and the powerful allure of free pizza. Plus: Why you don’t have to create an account to engage with our public platform. The post Hackathons and free pizza: All about Stack Overflow’s new Student Ambassador Program (Ep. 483) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Without SSO and other enterprise features, a product can only go so far. The post The many problems with implementing Single Sign-On appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Functional programming for blockchains, multiple conditional inheritances, and the life of Clippy The post The Overflow #142: The bane of bossware appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Ben talks with Dylan Fox, founder and CEO of rapid-growth startup AssemblyAI, about how he became interested in AI and machine learning, why he left a steady job at a tech giant to create something new, and what AI can offer creators like writers and visual artists. The post Plug-and-play AI for your own projects (Ep. 482) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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Are you ready to take your cloud skills to new heights? We’re excited to announce the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge, created in partnership with The Drone Racing League (DRL) and taking place at Next ‘22 to usher in the new era of tech-driven sports. Using DRL race data and Google Cloud analytics tools, developers of any skill level will be able to predict race outcomes and provide tips to DRL pilots to help enhance their season performance. Using the model developed in Stage 2. Let’s fly! (BACK TO TOP)
Calling developers, innovators, data scientists, designers, educators, and enthusiasts - build and showcase your idea using Google Maps Platform. The challenge for this hackathon is simple: build or expand something you’re passionate about and create a unique experience using Google Maps Platform. The hackathon will accept submissions until November 14 on Devpost , and there will be up to four grand prize winners and four honorable mentions with up to $24,000 USD in total prizes. (BACK TO TOP)
We are excited to announce Cloud Spanner free trial instances to give everyone an opportunity to try out Spanner at no cost for 90 days. Spanner is a fully managed relational database created by Google that provides the highest levels of consistency and availability at any scale. Developers love Spanner for its ease of use and its ability to automatically handle replication, sharding, disaster recovery, and strongly consistent transaction processing. If you are an existing Google Cloud user (i. (BACK TO TOP)
In today’s competitive environment, organizations need to quickly and easily make decisions based on real-time data. That’s why we’re announcing Datastream for BigQuery, now available in preview, featuring seamless replication from operational database sources such as AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle, directly into BigQuery, Google Cloud’s serverless data warehouse. Consider the case of a large supermarket chain, with 100’s of stores spread out across the region... (BACK TO TOP)
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, strong consistency, and industry leading high availability of up to 99.999%. In our ongoing quest to make Spanner more accessible to every developer and workload, we are introducing Spanner free trial instances . Now you can learn and test drive Spanner at no cost for 90 days using a trial instance that comes with 10 GB storage capacity. To get started, create a free trial instance in one of the available regions. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re all accustomed to Google magic in our daily lives. When we need information like the time a store closes, the best route to a destination, help cooking a favorite recipe — we just ask Google. Google is known for providing useful information everywhere, wherever you are. But for business, it isn’t so easy to get answers to important questions. Operational databases are the backbone of applications and are essential ingredients for building innovative customer experiences.999% availability. (BACK TO TOP)
Introducing fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner: A new way to protect your data in Spanner
As Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, strong consistency, and availability up to 99.999%, Cloud Spanner powers applications of all sizes in industries such financial services, gaming, retail, and healthcare. Today, we’re excited to announce the preview of fine-grained access control for Spanner that lets you authorize access to Spanner data at the table and column level. The model for IAM has three main parts: Role . For example, spanner.instances.xyz . (BACK TO TOP)
Migrate your most demanding enterprise PostgreSQL databases to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with Database Migration Service
Earlier this year, we announced the launch of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding, enterprise-grade transactional and analytical workloads. Companies across industries are already looking to AlloyDB to free themselves from traditional legacy proprietary databases and scale existing PostgreSQL workloads with no application changes. AlloyDB unlocks better scale, higher availability, and faster performance. See how to migrate databases to Google ... (BACK TO TOP)
Overview Go SQL Spanner Driver is an implementation of Go's database/sql/driver interface. Add the driver to your application to enable the use of the database/sql API with Cloud Spanner. Use spanner as driverName and a valid Connection String as dataSourceName: code_block [StructValue([(u'code', u'import _ "github.com/googleapis/go-sql-spanner"\r\n\r\ndb, err := sql.Open("spanner", "projects/PROJECT/instances/INSTANCE/databases/DATABASE")\r\nif err != nil {\r\n log.\r\nrows, err := db.0.0... (BACK TO TOP)
Google Cloud Next ‘22 kicks off on October 11 at 9AM PDT with a 24-hour “follow the sun” global digital broadcast featuring live keynotes from five locations across the globe — New York, Sunnyvale, Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Munich. You’ll hear from the people shaping the future of computing and have the opportunity to learn from Google Cloud leaders and community influencers about ways they are solving the biggest challenges facing organizations today. Engineer your own playlist . Register today . (BACK TO TOP)
Today, more than half of grocery sales are influenced by digital, but only 4% of those sales are actually completed online, according to Deloitte research 1 . That leaves a tremendous growth opportunity for grocers to gain their share of digital shoppers. A one-stop-shop experience is preferred by consumers as it benefits both their time and wallet and offers numerous synergies to the grocer as well. This mirrors the behavior shoppers exhibit perusing store aisles. 1... Read Article (BACK TO TOP)
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