Bulletin for Friday, 07 Apr 2023
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Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
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Blog – Hackaday (2)
QuestDB Blog (2)
- Integrate Apache Spark and QuestDB for Time-Series Analytics
- Comparing InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, and QuestDB Time-Series Databases
- Are your memory-bound benchmarking timings normally distributed?
- What are we going to do about ChatGPT?
Andrew Helwer (2)
- ML Model Packaging [The Ultimate Guide]
- Real-World MLOps Examples: End-To-End MLOps Pipeline for Visual Search at Brainly
Timescale Blog (2)
- How to Fix No Partition of Relation Found for Row
- Do More With AWS in Timescale: An AWS Lambda Tutorial Using SAM CLI
Computer Things (2)
- Our Learnings from the Early Days of Generative AI
- Inside Look: Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn
- Career stories: Military commander turned Trust & Safety manager
- DevOps threat matrix
- Secure hybrid and remote workplaces with a Zero Trust approach
- Discover a new era of security with Microsoft at RSAC 2023
- FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers
- A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?
- German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’
Comments for Blog - by experts - CYBERTEC PostgreSQL Services & Support (3)
- Comment on View permissions and row-level security in PostgreSQL by Dean Kayton
- Comment on View permissions and row-level security in PostgreSQL by laurenz
- Comment on View permissions and row-level security in PostgreSQL by Dean Kayton
- How does database sharding work?
- An update to our workflow: safe migrations
- Announcing the PlanetScale GitHub Actions
- The hardware we need for our cloud exit has arrived
- Standing up to golems
- How to have buckets of time
Discord Blog (3)
- Ready Your Airhorns! 🎺 Discord Soundboard is Coming Your Way
- New to Discord Nitro: Super Reactions Make Your Emoji Burst to Life
- April Showers Bring Super-Cool Nitro Powers
Google AI Blog (3)
- How Project Starline improves remote communication
- Pre-trained Gaussian processes for Bayesian optimization
- Scaling vision transformers to 22 billion parameters
Replit Blog (4)
- Hackers, Pros, and Teams users can now code for hours without restarts
- Replit + Chroma: AI for the next billion software creators
- Replit Bounties: The Best Place to Build and Launch MVPs
- April 2 Potential GitHub Credentials Exposure
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (4)
- IPv6 Buzz 123: Why You Need An IPv6 Security Plan
- Day Two Cloud 189: The Cloud Network Engineer Career Path With Kam Agahian
- Network Break 424: Amazon Invites Devs To Its Sidewalk Wireless Network; OneWeb Readies Global Satellite Internet Service
- Heavy Networking 672: Overcoming Your Imposter Syndrome
- The biggest job interview of GPT-4's life (Go Time #272)
- Accelerated data science with a Kaggle grandmaster (Practical AI #217)
- Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots (Changelog News)
- See you later, humans! (JS Party #269)
- Reflectie rondetafelgesprek en technische briefing wet cyberoperaties
- KI: Umwälzung für die Wirtschaft garantiert
- AI: Guaranteed to disrupt our economies
- AI: sowieso ontwrichtend
- Five finalists selected for inaugural Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge
- Rustan Leino provides proof that software is bug-free
- How Amazon Chime SDK’s voice tone analysis works
- Amazon, MIT research symposium focused on cutting-edge technology
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (4)
- Pluralistic: Clarence Thomas and the generosity of a far-right dark-money billionaire (06 Apr 2023)
- Pluralistic: Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models (04 Apr 2023)
- Pluralistic: The problem with economic models (03 Apr 2023)
- Pluralistic: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead (01 Apr 2023)
Earthly Blog (5)
- Introduction to Netlify Cloud Functions
- Earthly Achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance
- Celebrating One Year of Write With Us!
- Better Dependency Management in Python
- A Guide to Setting Up Your Monorepo for JavaScript Projects with Lerna
- From cryptography to consensus: Q&A with CTO David Schwartz on building real-world blockchain apps
- From Smalltalk to smart contracts, reflecting on 50 years of programming (Ep. 551)
- “Data driven” decisions aren’t innovative decisions
- The people most affected by the tech layoffs
- The Overflow #171: The tech toolbox
- How to keep the servers running when your Mastodon goes viral (Ep. 550)
- Protect your domain with Zone Holds
- Cloudflare’s view of the Virgin Media outage in the UK
- Oxy: the journey of graceful restarts
- Introducing Rollbacks for Workers Deployments
- mTLS client certificate revocation vulnerability with TLS Session Resumption
- Upgrading one of the oldest components in Cloudflare’s software stack
Towards Data Science - Medium (6)
- Meta AI Introduces Revolutionary Image Segmentation Model Trained on 1 Billion Masks
- Model employment: The inference comes after training, not during
- Build Reliable Machine Learning Pipelines with Continuous Integration
- Introduction to mypy
- Dissecting the Reach and Impact of Twitter’s Top Voices
- An ImPULSE to Action: A Practical Solution for Positive Unlabelled Classification
DTN (7)
- Meet BIMCO CII Operations Clause Obligations with Vessel Insights API
- How WeatherFactor API Enhances Voyage Management System Predictions
- Three ways to increase your terminal’s throughput
- Reach your audience with AgTarget
- Today’s Golf Game Require Real-time Insights
- DTN Meteorologists are Key Players on the LPGA Tour
- How Real-time Analytics Improve Long-term Impacts
LogRocket Blog (8)
- 5 useful JSON tools to improve your productivity
- How to create a user experience map
- Director of product management: Job description, responsibilities
- Types vs. interfaces in TypeScript
- Cause and effect analysis with a fishbone (Ishikawa) diagram
- Build a React Native app with Solito
- How Tabby compares with the VS Code terminal
- The guide to signal handling in Rust
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (12)
- image-to-jpeg
- Blinded by Analogies
- Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models
- From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
- Guess we could start calling this a 'hallucitation'?
- trurl manipulates URLs
- ROOTS search tool
- Closed AI Models Make Bad Baselines
- Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for AI
- Django 4.2 released
- AI photo sorter
- textual-mandelbrot
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week. The volume of requested reviews kept growing, and six months later there was a one to two week delay between requesting a review and receiving feedback. There’s no right pattern, just the most appropriate pattern for your current constraints.g.g.g.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Hermes is a distributed publish-subscribe message broker that we use at Allegro to facilitate asynchronous communication between our microservices. As our usage of Hermes has grown over time, we faced a challenge in effectively distributing the load it handles to optimize resource utilization. In this blog post, we will present the implementation of a dynamic workload balancing algorithm that we developed to address this challenge. Each event is stored in only one partition.g.g.e. (BACK TO TOP)
.hilite {cursor:zoom-in} a:link img.hilite, a:visited img.hilite {color: #fff;} a:hover img.hilite {color: #f66;} pre.microcode {font-family: courier, fixed; padding: 10px; background-color: #f5f5f5; display:inline-block;border:none;} pre.microcode span {color: green; font-style:italic; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 90%;} Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor in 1978. 1 These instructions rapidly copy, compare, or scan data and are known as "string" instructions. Based on NEC v.g.e.e. (BACK TO TOP)
Everything important in AI happened in the last 5 years and you can catch up (BACK TO TOP)
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system, is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faster and more efficient. In our internal tests at Meta, we observed that Buck2 completed builds 2x as fast as Buck1. Buck2, Meta’s open [...] Read More... The post Build faster with Buck2: Our open source build system appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of […] The post Bullsh*t Jobs appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko . (BACK TO TOP)
I've been kind of quiet these past few weeks. Part of that has been from plowing a bunch of work into getting serious about how all of the /w/ posts get generated. I figure if I'm going to start leaning on people to not do goofy things with their feed readers, the least I can do is make sure I'm not sending them broken garbage. To really explain this, I need to back up to 2011 when this whole thing was just getting off the ground. Then people asked for an Atom feed, and I delivered on that too.. (BACK TO TOP)
#516 – April 03, 2023 How Programming Affects Your Brain Programmers may become increasingly irritable when a puzzle takes a long time to solve, and may be hesitant to take on tasks that are too easy and do not offer enough challenge. This could be a way to differentiate between those who are addicted to programming and those who are team players, based on their willingness to perform the necessary but less exciting work that is required to complete a project. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/think-fast-talk-smart-podcast
“The self is incompatible with freedom, the way most people understand it, because the self is a constraint,” says social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior Brian Lowery . “The ‘you’ you’re talking about is actually the relationships you have, the social interactions you have and the cultural context you exist in. He also shares research on how asking deeply personal questions can be a tool for deepening relationships. Resources : https://www.gsb.stanford. (BACK TO TOP)
https://textual.textualize.io/
Textual 0.18.0 adds API for managing concurrent workers Less than a week since the last release, and we have a new API to show you. This r... (BACK TO TOP)
https://medium.com/digital-mckinsey
By Mohamad Assaf — Senior Analyst, Build by McKinsey ; Brian Leke — Senior Expert and Associate Partner, Build by McKinsey ; and Sallah Kokaina — Senior Expert and Associate Partner, Build by McKinsey Offering fast and high-availability solutions is becoming the new norm in the field of software engineering. With the growing demands on web and mobile channels, developers can leverage open-source solutions to shape production-ready setups. Figure 1 illustration of the integration.spring.xml file. (BACK TO TOP)
In the past ten years, there’s been a massive shift in the way new software is developed. The emerging cloud-native ecosystem paved the way for applications to be developed faster, better, and more reliably. DevOps gave way to GitOps. Security is shifting left. And Kubernetes is now everywhere. While those who’ve adopted Kubernetes have reaped many of its benefits, operating and managing Kubernetes clusters remains a challenge. This is where the Weave GitOps Assured Accelerator comes in... 1. 3. (BACK TO TOP)
This is part 17 of a series about my experiences being a parent. Read the rest here . Gaby, my wife, a few weeks before the birth: Before Oscar was born, I was entirely excited that we were going to have a child. I liked my life, but it was a good time to change everything. My job was fine, but I wasn’t worried about putting it on hold or even losing it. We were about to move to London, so my social circle, hobbies, and routines were going to get warped anyway. The baby is due soon. I cried. (BACK TO TOP)
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
This paper is from IBM, 1992. This is a foundational paper in databases area. ARIES achieves long-running transaction recovery in a performant/nonblocking fashion. It is more complicated than simple (write-ahead-log) WAL-based per-action-recovery, as it needs to preserve the Atomicity and Durability properties for ACID transactions. Any transactional database worth its salt (including PostGres, Oracle, MySQL) implements recovery techniques based on the ARIES principles. "I have this condition... (BACK TO TOP)
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
"The Nine: Inside the secret world of the Supreme Court" by Jeffrey Toobin - a detailed survey of the Supreme Court's justices, their selection process and key cases from the mid 1980s and until ~2007 or so. Very interesting look inside the works of the court that helps one understand how it operates. Unfortunately, the book is author to remain politically neutral, although he seems to be trying to. "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu - a pretty good work of science fiction, very original...r. (BACK TO TOP)
What happens when we focus too heavily on the fruits of our labour and not growing the tree that provides the fruit? (BACK TO TOP)
Hello! A few years I wrote a post called A new way I’m getting feedback on my posts: beta readers! about how I’d started using beta readers. The basic strategy for getting feedback there was to email people a PDF and ask for feedback. This was kind of inefficient, and so over the past couple of years, I’ve worked a lot with Marie Flanagan to improve the process. There are some screenshots further down. First, let’s talk about some problems with the original process. (BACK TO TOP)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed. (BACK TO TOP)
https://engineering.atspotify.com/
Overview Wrapped is Spotify’s global annual year-end campaign that celebrates our listeners with a personalized review of their listening habits over the past year. Last year, with more than 150 million unique engaged users across more than 111 markets, the Wrapped engineering team had the extraordinary challenge of supporting traffic across many regions and from [...] The post Load Testing for 2022 Wrapped appeared first on Spotify Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
Notifications are a key aspect of the Slack user experience. Users rely on timely notifications of mentions and DMs to keep on top of important information. Poor notification completeness erodes the trust of all Slack users. Notifications flow through almost all the systems in our infrastructure. As illustrated in Figure 1 below, a notification request […] The post Tracing Notifications appeared first on Slack Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/
Introduction In episode 9, Miki discussed how a command flag can be decoded into a user defined type with the Value interface. As a recap, the Value interface consists of two methods: one for serializing the underlying concrete type and one for deserializing a string into an object. To put this interface to the test, Miki wrote a command that had a flag to specify a network address. (BACK TO TOP)
The bane of 3D printing is what people commonly call bed leveling. The name is a bit of a misnomer since you aren’t actually getting the bed level but making …read more (BACK TO TOP)
When it comes to professional medium format analog cameras, the Mamiya RB67 is among the most well-known and loved, ever since its introduction in 1970. Featuring not only support for …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Tutorial demonstrating the process to integrate Apache Spark with QuestDB to assist time-series data engineering. (BACK TO TOP)
A high-level overview of time-series databases to compare features, functionality, maturity, and performance. (BACK TO TOP)
When optimizing software, we routinely measure the time that takes a given function or task. The typical assumption is that we get a normal distribution, and so we should therefore report the average time. I believe that this hidden assumption (normality) is frequently violated in software benchmarks. I recently gave a talk on precise and … Continue reading Are your memory-bound benchmarking timings normally distributed? (BACK TO TOP)
Generative artificial intelligence, and in particular ChatGPT, has taken the world by storm. Some intellectuals are proposing we create a worldwide ban on advanced AI research, using military operations if needed. Many leading researchers and pundits are proposing a six-month ‘pause’, during which time we could not train more advanced intelligences. The six-month pause is … Continue reading What are we going to do about ChatGPT? (BACK TO TOP)
I will here indulge in the traditional practice of using my blog to talk about how I’m using my blog. This page is built with the Hugo static site generator. I recently updated it to use the latest version of the beautifulhugo theme, which unbeknownst to me included a dark mode colorscheme. Recent browsers use the prefers-color-scheme option to automatically choose light or dark mode CSS styles, if the website supports it. (BACK TO TOP)
Here’s a short report of a time I used TLA⁺ at work, with interesting results. TLA⁺ is a formal specification language that is particularly effective when applied to concurrent & distributed systems. TLA⁺ made it tractable for an ordinary software engineer to reason about a tricky distributed systems problem, and it found a bug introduced by an “optimization” I tried to add (classic). The bug required 12 sequential steps to occur and would not have been uncovered by ordinary testing. (BACK TO TOP)
In case you missed it, Tailscale Up is our first community conference that brings Tailscale out of the network layer and into the real world on Wednesday, May 31 . Come to meet open source maintainers, hardware hackers, self-hosters, and Tailscalars (sometimes all the same person) to share stories, workflows, and favorite projects. You can find tickets, accommodation details, and more over on the developer community site . Attend Early bird tickets are on sale until Tuesday, April 11.com . (BACK TO TOP)
This is a re-publishing of our monthly newsletter sent to subscribers earlier this month. Sign up to receive future email newsletters . 👉 We want to hear from you: How can we improve Tailscale ? March has flown by! All month long, we’ve been heads-down getting some cool new features over the finish line and into your hands. Also high on our priority list has been gearing up for two notable in-person events, both in San Francisco. With @Tailscale I can. Written by Jeremy Theocharis . (BACK TO TOP)
Have you ever spent weeks or months building a machine learning model, only to later find out that deploying it into a production environment is complicated and time-consuming? Or have you struggled to manage multiple versions of a model and keep track of all the dependencies and configurations required for deployment? If you’re nodding your… (BACK TO TOP)
In this second installment of the series “Real-world MLOps Examples,” Paweł Pęczek, Machine Learning Engineer at Brainly, will walk you through the end-to-end Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) process in the Visual Search team at Brainly. And because it takes more than technologies and processes to succeed with MLOps, he will also share details on: Enjoy… (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.timescale.com/blog/
Learn more about the “no partition of relation found for row” error and how to avoid it in PostgreSQL databases. (BACK TO TOP)
Read this AWS Lambda tutorial and learn how to build and deploy a serverless time-series application on AWS Lambda and Timescale Cloud using SAM CLI. (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/
I'm a huge fan of honeypots, honeytraps, and honeytokens. These are systems, services, and booby traps that are used to detect potential attacks. Ideally, a regular (non-hostile) user will never stumble across these. In contrast, bots, scanners, crawlers, etc. are very likely to find them and trigger them. Along with my regular online services, I've been running a variety of honeypot web sites for over a decade. In either case, this is an ongoing process and that means learning new things.177.). (BACK TO TOP)
I recently received my invitation to try out Google Bard. This is Google's AI-generated text system where you give it a prompt and it generates text. However unlike ChatGPT, GPT-2, or GPT-3, which just generates text, Bard works more like a help desk and tries to give intelligent responses. I tried Bard with a variety of prompts in order to determine how well it works and how it might be used. In some cases, Bard is incredibly accurate. Other times, it was spectacularly wrong.....".defcon... (BACK TO TOP)
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TLA+ Workshop + Review I’m running a TLA+ Workshop in May ! Use the code C0MPUT3RTHINGS for 15% off. As part of the purchase, I’ll do a spec review of a spec you write after the workshop. As an example, here’s a 1-hour review I did of a spec from February cohort. Thanks to Cory Myers for letting me share the review! The Capability-Tractability Tradeoff The more things your system can represent, the less you can say about the things that are represented. More tractable, less capable. ↩ (BACK TO TOP)
Hi everyone! My April Cools piece is up! It’s about really weird stuff you can buy online. Now I know that’s standard SEO farm stuff, but I promise I put a lot of time into researching why people actually want to buy these things. If you ever wanted to know where carnivals buy and sell their rollercoasters, now’s your chance. Anyway, that’s just the April Cools for the blog. I’ve also got one just for the newsletter! It’s about what to do with spare hotel keycards. That worked better. (BACK TO TOP)
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog.rss.html
It’s been an exciting few months at LinkedIn, as our engineering and product teams have been working hard to build some new and advanced AI-powered experiences for our members and customers. I have the opportunity to sit at such a unique vantage point where I get to see first hand the work that went into setting the technology foundations - from the technical resources, tools, engineering playgrounds and guidelines - to make it all possible. We introduced […] (BACK TO TOP)
Authors:Viktoras Truchanovicius and Selina Zhang At LinkedIn, developer productivity and happiness has always been a priority. It is critical for our engineering leaders to understand how efficiently and effectively their teams are operating to continuously deliver value-added features for our members and build an industry-leading engineering culture. Over the years we’ve created several metrics and dashboards for measuring developer productivity. (BACK TO TOP)
Avery's career in military IT took an unexpected turn when he caught wind of a LinkedIn Trust & Safety (QA) manager opportunity in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. Now charged with keeping our LinkedIn platform safe, he shares his career transition into tech, and how his team has supported him as a dad and U.S. Army National Guard cyber-protection commander. After joining the U.S. Army, my training brought me down the path of the IT […] (BACK TO TOP)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/
In this blog, we discuss threats we face in our DevOps environment, introducing our new threat matrix for DevOps. Using this matrix, we show the different techniques an adversary might use to attack an organization from the initial access phase and forward. The post DevOps threat matrix appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Secure your organization's digital estate through a comprehensive Zero Trust approach. The post Secure hybrid and remote workplaces with a Zero Trust approach appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Microsoft Security will be at the 2023 RSA Conference and we’d love to connect with you there. In this blog post, we share all the ways you can—plus, attend the Pre-Day with Microsoft and watch the Microsoft Security Copilot demo. The post Discover a new era of security with Microsoft at RSAC 2023 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. Sources tell KrebsOnsecurity the domain seizures coincided with "dozens" of arrests in the United States and abroad targeting those who allegedly operated the service, as well as suppliers who continuously fed Genesis Market with freshly-stolen data. (BACK TO TOP)
John Clifton Davies, a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. Davies' newest invention appears to be "CodesToYou," which purports to be a "full cycle software development company" based in the U.K. (BACK TO TOP)
Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web service that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services. Fly Hosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based hosting firm that was open for business to anyone looking for a reliable place to host malware, botnet controllers, or DDoS-for-hire infrastructure. (BACK TO TOP)
Comments for Blog - by experts - CYBERTEC PostgreSQL Services & Support ](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/blog/)
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Comment on View permissions and row-level security in PostgreSQL by Dean Kayton ](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/view-permissions-and-row-level-security-in-postgresql/#comment-1416)
In reply to <a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/view-permissions-and-row-level-security-in-postgresql/#comment-1415">laurenz</a>. Great idea. For some reason in my iterations I did end up granting usage to the internal table schema but at some point I will check if things work without it. (BACK TO TOP)
Comment on View permissions and row-level security in PostgreSQL by laurenz ](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/view-permissions-and-row-level-security-in-postgresql/#comment-1415)
In reply to <a href="https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/view-permissions-and-row-level-security-in-postgresql/#comment-1414">Dean Kayton</a>. These requirements conflict with each other. Here is an idea: put the tables in a schema on which the API user has no USAGE permission. Give the API user permissions on those tables. The user still cannot directly access them because of the schema permissions. Mission accomplished! (BACK TO TOP)
Comment on View permissions and row-level security in PostgreSQL by Dean Kayton ](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/view-permissions-and-row-level-security-in-postgresql/#comment-1414)
How are you able to get both? i.e. I don't want ordinary users to access underlying tables (of 'internal' schema). They only get access to 'api' schema, which houses all the views that query internal tables. But I would like to apply policies at table level. If I change settings of views, to have privileges of invoker, they then are unable to access internal tables. I guess my only option is to define row based access at the views level instead of at the table level? (BACK TO TOP)
Learn what sharding is, how sharding works, and some common sharding frameworks and tools. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
Learn about our latest update, safe migrations, and how it affects our branching workflow. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
Easily integrate common PlanetScale operations directly into your GitHub Actions Workflows. Read the full story (BACK TO TOP)
It's been a long time since I last saw a physical piece of hardware used to run our services at 37signals . I vaguely remember doing a tour of our Chicago data center over a decade ago, but somewhere along the line, I just lost interest in the iron itself. Now the interest is back, because hardware is fun again , so let me share my excitement with you! These are the two pallets that showed up in our Chicago data center recently.75GHz with 48 cores / 96 threads. Spinning rust at 7,200 RPM. (BACK TO TOP)
Tim Urban's new book What's Our Problem? offers an excellent analysis of the current American political malaise. It breaks down the history of first how the Republican party got overrun by low-rung thinking from the mid-90s forward, then how equally low-rung thinking got the other side in the past decade or so. It's a light, humorous recap of modern American political history. I highly recommend it. It's central contribution is adding a second dimension to the political spectrum. Buy his book! (BACK TO TOP)
One of the most important techniques I've embraced for managing my time is to direct related tasks to a bucket, let that bucket accumulate until full, then empty it all in one go. This in contrast to trying to catch every task the moment it lands from the myriad of interruption pipes that'll drip-drip-drip your day away if you let them. Nowhere is the most evident than with email. I used to take such pride in inbox zero when I was still using Gmail. Whether it was urgent or not. It was not. (BACK TO TOP)
Today, we’re introducing Soundboard: a new way to react in Voice channels with sounds curated by your community. Upload sounds to your server and your members can use them in Voice. Nitro subscribers can use soundpacks across servers, just like emojis and stickers! (BACK TO TOP)
Rolling out starting today, Super Reactions are the newest perk for Discord Nitro subscribers, bringing an extra burst of energy and spirit to hype up chat when you need it the most. (BACK TO TOP)
We’ve got SUPER REACTIONS. We’ve got SOUNDBOARD. We’ve got THEMES and even limited time AVATAR DECORATIONS. Today, Discord Nitro gets even better. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Greg Blascovich and Eric Gomez, User Researchers, Google As companies settle into a new normal of hybrid and distributed work, remote communication technology remains critical for connecting and collaborating with colleagues. While this technology has improved, the core user experience often falls short: conversation can feel stilted, attention can be difficult to maintain, and usage can be fatiguing.g., meeting in Project Starline vs.e. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Zi Wang and Kevin Swersky, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Bayesian optimization (BayesOpt) is a powerful tool widely used for global optimization tasks, such as hyperparameter tuning , protein engineering , synthetic chemistry , robot learning , and even baking cookies . BayesOpt is a great strategy for these problems because they all involve optimizing black-box functions that are expensive to evaluate.g.g. This makes BayesOpt both more accessible and more effective. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Piotr Padlewski and Josip Djolonga, Software Engineers, Google Research Large Language Models (LLMs) like PaLM or GPT-3 showed that scaling transformers to hundreds of billions of parameters improves performance and unlocks emergent abilities . Motivated by this, and the results from scaling LLMs, we decided to undertake the next step in the journey of scaling the Vision Transformer . It is 5.5x larger than the previous largest vision backbone, ViT-e , which has 4 billion parameters.g. (BACK TO TOP)
STAY CONNECTED Starting today, all users on Hacker, Pro, or Teams plans will see a 10x reduction in container restarts while coding in the Workspace. Previously, you would experience a restart at least once an hour. Now you can code for multiple hours straight without restarts. Deep work can stay uninterrupted and you can keep programs running longer while you build. Repls are computers that live in the cloud. One of the most painful experiences with a cloud computer is losing your network link. (BACK TO TOP)
Guest post by Chroma Today we’re announcing the Chroma template for Replit, the next step towards bringing the power of AI application development to the next billion software creators. With the Chroma template, developers can easily create AI applications with state and memory. Want to make ChatGPT for your email? Or chat to your textbooks while you study? Want LLMs to know about the latest news stories? Together with Replit, Chroma makes all that and more easy. The frontier expands every day. (BACK TO TOP)
> "If I had turnkey access to this liquid, global talent pool in previous product roles, it would have been amazing for developing prototypes and taking ideas from 0 to 1." Christian Ulstrup / founder and CEO of GSD @ Work ABOUT THE BOUNTY POSTER Christian Ulstrup is the founder and CEO of GSD @ Work, a strategic consulting firm that advises pre-Series C startups and business leaders on strategy, product development, and GTM motion.g., LinkedIn posts). He chose Ryan (aka https://replit. (BACK TO TOP)
Yesterday, on April 2, 2023, Replit discovered a site vulnerability that may have exposed GitHub auth tokens for (BACK TO TOP)
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast explores why you need a plan for IPv6 security. Even if you haven't actively deployed IPv6, you've got v6-enabled hosts on your LAN and remote workers connecting to you over v6 networks. We discuss key elements to consider in your plan, evaluating IPv6 support in security products and services, and more. The post IPv6 Buzz 123: Why You Need An IPv6 Security Plan appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today on Day Two Cloud we explore what it takes to transition from traditional networking to a career as a cloud network engineer. Guest Kam Agahian shares insights from his own career journey about what's the same and what's different between on-prem and cloud networking, what skills might you want to pick up to make the transition, recommended certifications, and more. The post Day Two Cloud 189: The Cloud Network Engineer Career Path With Kam Agahian appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Network Break 424: Amazon Invites Devs To Its Sidewalk Wireless Network; OneWeb Readies Global Satellite Internet Service
On today's Network Break podcast we cover Amazon opening its Sidewalk low-power IoT wireless network to developers, Cisco putting the expiration date on Prime Infrastructure, HAProxy adding QUIC support in its enterprise load balancer, Huawei touting revenue stability, and more IT news. The post Network Break 424: Amazon Invites Devs To Its Sidewalk Wireless Network; OneWeb Readies Global Satellite Internet Service appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Lots of folks suffer from impostor syndrome. Tech is complex--how could you know what you’re doing? And yet, many of us are responsible for incredibly complex IT systems. Fake it ‘til you make it, right? To handle the cognitive dissonance of impostor syndrome, we overcompensate. In doing so, we pay a personal price. Today's Heavy Networking guest is Matt Vitale. He's here to share what he's learned about coping with and overcoming imposter syndrome. (BACK TO TOP)
Mat & Johnny interview everyone’s favorite LLM (Natalie with a special hat on) to see if it’d make a good hire as a Go dev. Also, Mat tries to turn it into his very own creepy robot by asking personal questions about his co-hosts. Things get weird. In a good way? (BACK TO TOP)
Daniel and Chris explore the intersection of Kaggle and real-world data science in this illuminating conversation with Christof Henkel, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist at NVIDIA and Kaggle Grandmaster. Christof offers a very lucid explanation into how participation in Kaggle can positively impact a data scientist’s skill and career aspirations. He also shared some of his insights and approach to maximizing AI productivity uses GPU-accelerated tools like RAPIDS and DALI. (BACK TO TOP)
Twitter's open algorithm, Auto-GPT, LLMs as "calculators for words", SudoLang & stochastic parrots (Changelog News)
Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs & I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”. (BACK TO TOP)
Jerod & the gang catch you up on what’s new and poppin’ in the web development world. We go deep on GitHub Copilot X and the latest AI advancements, take a bathroom break while Nick talks about TypeScript 5 & continue the debate about the future of React. (BACK TO TOP)
Gisteren (5 april) was er een technische briefing van de AIVD en MIVD over de tijdelijke wet cyberoperaties, gevolgd door een rondetafelgesprek met deskundigen. Vorige week was er een technische briefing door de toezichthouders TIB en CTIVD. Mijn spreektekst met veel klikbare voetnoten ter verduidelijking staat hier. Er was een goeie opkomst van geïnteresseerden en Kamerleden, en er waren goede en goed geïnformeerde vragen. (BACK TO TOP)
Vielen Dank an Lili Laguna für diese Übersetzung diesen niederländischen Blog-Beitrag. English version. Jeder überschlägt sich mit Vorhersagen über KI. Sie wird uns von stupider Arbeit befreien, sie wird unsere Bildung zerstören, wir alle werden nichts mehr lernen müssen, weil die KI es für uns tun wird, Kriminelle werden uns mit ihr austricksen, Gauner werden mit ihr unendliche Mengen an Desinformation erzeugen, und die KI wird entkommen und in der realen Welt gefährlich werden. (BACK TO TOP)
This is a machine-aided translation of this Dutch post. Und jetzt auch auf Deutsch verfügbar! Everyone is tumbling over themselves making predictions about AI. It’s going to free us from menial work, it’s going to dismantle our education, we all won’t have to learn things anymore because the AI will do it for us, criminals will trick us with it, crooks will create endless amounts of disinformation with language models, and the AI will escape and become dangerous in the real world. (BACK TO TOP)
Update: This article is now also available in English. Und jetzt auch auf Deutsch! Iedereen buitelt over zichzelf heen om voorspellingen te doen over AI. Het gaat ons bevrijden van dom werk, het gaat ons onderwijs ontmantelen, we hoeven allemaal dingen niet meer te leren want de AI gaat het voor ons doen, criminelen zullen ons er mee bedonderen, boeven gaan er eindeloze hoeveelheden desinformatie mee maken, en de AI zal ontsnappen en in de echte wereld gevaarlijk worden. (BACK TO TOP)
University teams are competing to help advance the science of conversational embodied AI and robust human AI interaction. (BACK TO TOP)
As a senior principal applied scientist at Amazon Web Services, Leino is continuing his career as a leading expert in program verification. (BACK TO TOP)
Combining acoustic and lexical information improves real-time voice sentiment analysis. (BACK TO TOP)
Attendees explored new avenues of research in areas including robotics and conversational AI via roundtables moderated by researchers from Amazon. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Clarence Thomas and the generosity of a far-right dark-money billionaire: Harlan Crow showered the judge with millions in off-the-books, illegal "gifts." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/01/30-years-after-her-testimony-anita-hill-still-wants-something-from-joe-biden-514884 Today, Thomas continues to steer the court into new territory – for example, he's interested in banning same-sex marriage again: https://www.politico.npr.propublica.cnn. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models: We could have nice things, but computer says no. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate." The assumptions baked into these models are intensely political, and, like all dirty political actors, the model-makers claim they are "empirical" while their adversaries are "doing politics": https://pluralistic.5b over ten years. No business leader assesses their capital expenditures without thinking of the dividends from those investments.eff. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The problem with economic models (permalink) When students of statistics are introduced to creating and interpreting models, they are introduced to George Box's maxim: All models are wrong, some are useful.craphound." https://marker.6-1. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead: Pixsy's predators no longer welcome. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. First things first: Flickr's new community guidelines prohibit copyleft trolling: "Failure to allow a good faith reuser the opportunity to correct errors is against the intent of the license and not in line with the values of our community, and can result in your account being removed." https://www.flickr.flickrhelp.medium. Under the pre-4. There's a reason for this. (BACK TO TOP)
When building backend applications, we often have to add features that are not supported by the current stack or would slow down our applications. A possible workaround is to use cloud functions that help abstract away some of these tasks. This tutorial will cover how to create Netlify Functions, then explain an example use case, and best practices for using Netlify Functions. We will also take a look at how Netlify Functions compare to AWS Lambda and why you might prefer one over the other.dev. (BACK TO TOP)
We take security very seriously here at Earthly. As a user, you shouldn’t have to worry about a SaaS vendor being sloppy with your or your business’ data. We have an information security program that has been in place and communicated throughout our organization for quite some time now, but that assurance only means so much. That’s why we are excited to announce that Earthly achieved SOC 2 Type 1 compliance on March 29, 2023.dev. Get started Learn more (BACK TO TOP)
It’s been a year since we started taking outside submissions to the Earthly blog, and we just wanted to take the time to celebrate and say thank you to all the writers who’ve contributed! In the last year, we’ve had the privilege of working with over 25 talented tech writers on over 70 technical tutorials ! And this year we’re on track to double those numbers. So thank you to all the writers and editors who made this possible. This is one of the most insightful article reviews I have had. 2. 3. (BACK TO TOP)
Story time. I remember working on a data visualization project that involved Django and gevent. Don’t ask… as the project grew it’s dependencies kept growing. And then others had to contribute to the project and things got messy. One specific issue was managing the dependencies in a consistent manner across different environments – my local development machine, my teammates’ machines, and the production environment. These dependencies varied across platforms.run(host = '0.0.0.txt .0.0. ↩︎ (BACK TO TOP)
There are a lot of build tools in the JavaScript ecosystem. Some of them have overlaps in functionality, and others, like Lerna , focus on solving a particular problem. Lerna is a self-described “build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript/TypeScript packages from the same repository. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to leverage Lerna to manage a simple TypeScript monorepo . You’ll see how to set up Lerna, create some packages, and publish them to npm .spec.spec.json file.d.d. (BACK TO TOP)
Imagine a world where you're owning your digital purchases instead of licensing them. The post From cryptography to consensus: Q&A with CTO David Schwartz on building real-world blockchain apps appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We chat with Dean Tribble about his journey from Xerox PARC to blockchain CEO. The post From Smalltalk to smart contracts, reflecting on 50 years of programming (Ep. 551) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
If you want to innovate new solutions, you can't rely on data about existing solutions. The post “Data driven” decisions aren’t innovative decisions appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Overall, these layoffs are a body blow to diversity in tech, not just slowing but actually reversing hard-won gains. The post The people most affected by the tech layoffs appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Why these layoffs are different, the logic of revenge, and Electron at 10 The post The Overflow #171: The tech toolbox appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The server in your basement suddenly has a global social media to support. What's your next move? The post How to keep the servers running when your Mastodon goes viral (Ep. 550) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Protect against accidental additions of your domain, subdomain, or custom hostnames in other accounts with Zone Holds. Available by default for all enterprise customers (BACK TO TOP)
UK ISP Virgin Media (AS5089) experienced several outages on April 4, 2023. We examine the impact to Internet traffic, availability of Virgin Media web properties, and how BGP activity may provide insights into the underlying cause (BACK TO TOP)
Deploying new versions of long-lived server software while maintaining a reliable experience is challenging. For oxy, we established several development and operational patterns to increase reliability and reduce friction in deployments (BACK TO TOP)
Deployment rollbacks provide users the ability to quickly visualize and deploy past versions of their Workers, providing even more confidence in the deployment pipeline (BACK TO TOP)
This blog post outlines the root cause analysis and solution for a bug found in Cloudflare’s mTLS implementation (BACK TO TOP)
Engineers at Cloudflare have improved the release procedure of our largest edge proxy server. The improved process allows us to significantly decrease the amount of memory used during the version upgrade. As a result, we can deploy code faster and more reliably (BACK TO TOP)
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Segment Anything Model (SAM) - Best DL Model for Image Segmentation Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Training and using models are two separate phases (Image by author) Building models vs. using models After finishing the training phase of our models, new stages of the whole modeling pipeline get activated. The most common one within the machine-learning community is model deployment. For those who are not familiar with the concept, this basically refers to placing the model somewhere. When a car is built and assembled, “deployment” may be, for example, bringing it to car dealers’ shops. (BACK TO TOP)
Automate Machine Learning Workflow with Continuous Integration Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Static type checking for Python Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
A deep-dive into the relationships and patterns that shape the Twitterverse’s most powerful voices Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
An imPULSE to Action: A Practical Solution for Positive-Unlabeled Classification We introduce an approach called ImPULSE Classifier with improved performance on balanced and imbalanced PU data compared to other methods Made by DALL-E-2 according to the author’s description In data science, datasets with positive and unlabeled data, known as positive-unlabeled (PU) datasets, present a common yet challenging problem. It involves treating the unlabelled data as samples of the negative class .e. (BACK TO TOP)
The BIMCO CII operations clause doesn’t have to make waves for your operation. See how Vessel Insights API helps fuel vital compliance. The post Meet BIMCO CII Operations Clause Obligations with Vessel Insights API appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Critical factors are driving the need for more accurate voyage cost calculations. See how WeatherFactor API delivers key benefits to voyage management systems users. The post How WeatherFactor API Enhances Voyage Management System Predictions appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Inaccurate data and human error can create shocks to the system – unplanned delays, driver reroutes, and wasted time. Read our blog to learn how to prevent them. The post Three ways to increase your terminal’s throughput appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Jumpstart your advertising with programmatic advertising for agriculture using AgTarget, powered by our exclusive FarmMarket data. The post Reach your audience with AgTarget appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
The PGA Tour’s PLAYERS Championship experienced weather delays due to bad storms. Safety is one of many reasons the sport relies on weather insights. The post Today’s Golf Game Require Real-time Insights appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
For the LPGA Tour, the weather is a critical concern. Learn how DTN meteorologists inform key safety and operational decisions at tour events worldwide. The post DTN Meteorologists are Key Players on the LPGA Tour appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Today, data and insights are at the heart of every long-term decision. Finding advantages comes down to capturing real-time analytics at the right time. The post How Real-time Analytics Improve Long-term Impacts appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Explore a variety of JSON tools to help improve your productivity, including JSON Crack and JSON Schema. The post 5 useful JSON tools to improve your productivity appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
To create a great user experience map, you need to empathize, be creative, challenge assumptions, gather user data, and constantly refine it. The post How to create a user experience map appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn about the essential skills, responsibilities, and qualities of a director of product management and discover how to get hired for this critical leadership role. The post Director of product management: Job description, responsibilities appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
It can be difficult to choose between types and interfaces in TypeScript, but in this post, you'll learn which to use in specific use cases. The post Types vs. interfaces in TypeScript appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
There are many cases where product managers have to analyze the cause of a problem, and a fishbone diagram is a powerful tool for product managers to benefit from. The post Cause and effect analysis with a fishbone (Ishikawa) diagram appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Use Solito to easily transition your React Native app into a Next.js site and vice versa without sacrificing the native navigation experience. The post Build a React Native app with Solito appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Tabby is a modern alternative to traditional command-line apps like PowerShell, iTerm, and macOS Terminal, providing users with an entirely customizable terminal. The post How Tabby compares with the VS Code terminal appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In this article, we'll discover the purpose of signals and learn about signal handling in the Rust programming language. The post The guide to signal handling in Rust appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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