Bulletin for Friday, 08 Sep 2023
7 days digest
The Go Blog (1)
Discord Blog (1)
Ratfactor Feed (1)
Earthly Blog (1)
Eugene Yan (1)
Textual (1)
The Technium (1)
Stratechery by Ben Thompson (1)
Notes on software development (1)
Almost Secure (1)
Stay SaaSy (1)
Computer Things (1)
Vadim Kravcenko (1)
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (1)
Timescale Blog (1)
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog (1)
The CircleCI Blog Feed | CircleCI (1)
Weaveworks (1)
Sentry Blog RSS (2)
Google AI Blog (2)
- A novel computational fluid dynamics framework for turbulent flow research
- TSMixer: An all-MLP architecture for time series forecasting
tech-at-instacart - Medium (2)
- Scaling Productivity with Ava — Instacart’s Internal AI Assistant
- Instacart’s Item Availability Architecture: Solving for scale and consistency.
Replit Blog (2)
DTN (2)
- Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach
- Why is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?
Metadata (2)
- Review: Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action
- A snapshot isolated database modeling in TLA+
Retool Blog (2)
Latent Space (2)
- Computers are learning to decode the language of our minds
- Journey to the cloud part II: Migrating Stack Overflow for Teams to Azure
- You can't spell Zapier without API
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (3)
- Pluralistic: How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars (07 Sept 2023)
- Pluralistic: NLRB rules that any union busting triggers automatic union recognition (06 Sept 2023)
- Pluralistic: Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger" (05 September 2023)
- Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown
- Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript
- You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation
- Using Chakra execution traces for benchmarking and network performance optimization
- Arcadia: An end-to-end AI system performance simulator
- Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
- What is it like to write code at Meta?
- Cloudflare One for Data Protection
- What’s next for Cloudflare One’s data protection suite
- Connection coalescing with ORIGIN Frames: fewer DNS queries, fewer connections
- Improving Worker Tail scalability
Towards Data Science - Medium (6)
- 3D Point Cloud Shape Detection for Indoor Modelling
- Leveraging qLoRA for Fine-Tuning of Task-Fine-Tuned Models Without Catastrophic Forgetting
- Decoding Tasks in Generative AI: The Building Blocks of Intelligent Systems
- Data Science Better Practices, Part 1 — Test Your Queries
- Simulation 106: Modeling Information Diffusion and Social Contagion with Networks
- How to Create Data Maps of the United States with Python and Matplotlib
Blog – Hackaday (6)
- How Small Can the ESP32 Get?
- Programming a Poker Game With GPT Help
- 2023 Cyberdeck Challenge: The Best Decks on the Net
- Transistor Radio Repair, More Complex Than It Seems
- Where Did Electronic Music Start?
- Building Up Unicode Characters One Bit at a Time
- A view to a transitions API (JS Party #291)
- Prototyping with Go (Go Time #290)
- OpenTF for an open Terraform (Changelog Interviews #556)
- Fine-tuning vs RAG (Practical AI #238)
- A portrait of the best worst programmer (Changelog News #60)
- You call it tech debt I call it malpractice (Changelog & Friends #12)
- Modernizing packages to ESM (JS Party #290)
Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks (7)
- hubcap.php
- Using ChatGPT Code Intepreter (aka "Advanced Data Analysis") to analyze your ChatGPT history
- Perplexity: interactive LLM visualization
- Symbex 1.4
- A token-wise likelihood visualizer for GPT-2
- Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline
- A practical guide to deploying Large Language Models Cheap, Good and Fast
- hubcap.php
- Using ChatGPT Code Intepreter (aka "Advanced Data Analysis") to analyze your ChatGPT history
- Perplexity: interactive LLM visualization
- Symbex 1.4
- A token-wise likelihood visualizer for GPT-2
- Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline
- LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings
- A practical guide to deploying Large Language Models Cheap, Good and Fast
The Full Feed - All of the Packet Pushers Podcasts (8)
- Kubernetes Unpacked 034: Platform Engineering And Internal Development Platforms On Kubernetes
- IPv6 Buzz 134: Revisiting Unique Local Addressing At The IETF
- Day Two Cloud 209: Cloud Essentials – Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
- Heavy Wireless 010: Using Drones In Your WLAN Consulting
- Heavy Networking 698: Integrating Edge Networking And Compute With VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (Sponsored)
- Tech Bytes: Introducing The Network Automation Forum And AutoCon Event (Sponsored)
- Network Break 445: Juniper Pairs With ChatGPT, Microsoft To Unpair Teams In The EU
- Heavy Networking 697: Getting Operational Visibility Into The Networks That Matter (Sponsored)
- The Download: promising new batteries, and how to regulate AI
- How water could make safer batteries
- Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost
- The Download: how to talk to kids about AI, and China’s emotional chatbots
- Chinese AI chatbots want to be your emotional support
- You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say.
- The Download: the climate tech companies to watch, and mysterious AI models
- We know remarkably little about how AI language models work
- Coming soon: MIT Technology Review’s 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
- The Download: how Yale University has prepared for ChatGPT, and schools’ AI reckoning
LogRocket Blog (12)
- Conceptual design: Definition, step-by-step breakdown
- CSS lobotomized owl selector: A modern guide
- A guide to transformational leadership
- Customizing environment variables in Next.js 13
- How to stay focused on business value
- Label UX: Definition, best practices, examples
- The Johari window: Improved communication and awareness
- How to send emails in Node.js using email APIs
- Improving responsive data table UX with CSS
- What is secondment and how can it help your career?
- How correctly casing letters enhances visual hierarchy and UX
- Kanel tutorial: Generating TypeScript types from PostgreSQL
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Espresso is the database that we designed to power our member profiles, feed, recommendations, and hundreds of other Linkedin applications that handle large amounts of data and need both high performance and reliability. As Espresso continued to expand in support of our 950M+ member base, the number of network connections that it needed began to drive scalability and resiliency challenges. To address these challenges, we migrated to HTTP/2. In this post, […] (BACK TO TOP)
The Go Blog Profile-guided optimization in Go 1.21 Michael Pratt 5 September 2023 Earlier in 2023, Go 1.20 shipped a preview of profile-guided optimization (PGO) for users to test. After addressing known limitations in the preview, and with additional refinements thanks to community feedback and contributions, PGO support in Go 1.21 is ready for general production use! See the profile-guided optimization user guide for complete documentation. We can use gitlab. Set up $ go mod init example...... (BACK TO TOP)
Today, we’re stoked to announce the ability to Stream to Discord is coming to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles soon! Read on to learn how using Stream to Discord on your Xbox will work. (BACK TO TOP)
We’re Earthly . We make building software simpler and therefore faster. Earthly is open-source and written in go. So if you’re interested in a simple way to build then check us out . Golang enables you to build efficient applications with a focus on simplicity. That important when developing modern web applications. Uploading various types of files,images, videos, and documents, is a crucial aspect of modern web applications. Examples of such solutions include Cloudinary, Amazon S3, Upload.dev . (BACK TO TOP)
Reference, context, and preference-based metrics, self-consistency, and catching hallucinations. (BACK TO TOP)
“Controversieelverklaard worden die wetsvoorstellen en onderwerpen waarvan redelijkerwijze verwacht mag worden dat behandeling met een ander kabinet tot een andere uitkomst zal leiden.” – website Eerste Kamer Al bijna drie jaar is er een spoedwet in de maak om de wetgeving voor de Nederlandse Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten ingrijpend te veranderen. (BACK TO TOP)
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What is Textual Web? If you know us, you will know that we are the team behind Rich and [Textual](https://github.com... (BACK TO TOP)
I was just reminded that 15 years ago I wrote a short piece on a way to do Very Long Term Backups. Still seems the best way. Very Long-Term Backup (BACK TO TOP)
Charting ESPN's rise, including how it build leverage over the cable TV providers, and its ongoing decline, caused by the Internet. (BACK TO TOP)
#538 – September 04, 2023 Build Latency, Predictability, and Developer Productivity On the surface, build latency is a purely technical problem. But humans experience and respond to it in interesting ways: forming expectations, making choices, and organizing work around build latency and similar factors. For any file type from any source take advantage of AI data matching, faster validation & cleaning, and human-in-the-loop reviews, all while maintaining enterprise-grade scale and security. (BACK TO TOP)
This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways. I write because I'd like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out. 2015: Philadelphia I first tried to organize a meetup in Philly in 2015. I was contracting at the time and I figured a meetup might be a good way to source contracts or just meet interesting people.com. But Meetup. Maybe I paid for it.com.). (BACK TO TOP)
In September last year, a breach at LastPass’ parent company GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) culminated in attackers siphoning out all data from their servers. The criticism from the security community has been massive. The list goes on. Now this has been almost a year ago. LastPass promised to improve, both as far as their communication goes and on the technical side of things. So let’s take a look at whether they managed to deliver. TL;DR: They didn’t. Rotate K2 ASAP. And this is just wrong.php .de .” (BACK TO TOP)
Have you ever talked to your Front-end or Back-end engineer peers and noticed how much they care about code quality? Writing legible, reusable, and efficient code has always been a challenge in the software development community. Endless conversations happen every day across Github pull requests and Slack threads around this topic. How to best adapt… (BACK TO TOP)
We have previously discussed two ideas related to onboarding and finding impact. The premise of Optimize Onboarding is that you should start doing real work right away when you join a new company. The premise of Build Your Career on Dirty Work is that you should find the unsavory streams of work in an organization because they’re big opportunities. Most software teams have the following: Incidents and incident data Bugs and bug reports On-call rotations and pages Observability tooling (e.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
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Greetings from Australia! 1 It's the morning of September 5th for me and the night of September 4th in the US. In two weeks when I fly back, I will leave Sydney at 9 AM and arrive in Los Angeles at 6 AM, that same day. Timezones are annoying enough for regular people, but us software engineers have to deal with the fallout . Then you add in the political aspects and, well, you can't always store all data in UTC . Maybe I should do a deep-dive newsletter on it sometime. No, really...). Languages. (BACK TO TOP)
Tailscale has partnered with Mullvad to make its global network of VPN servers available for our customers. You can now easily browse the web using any one of Mullvad’s available servers as a Tailscale exit node while maintaining the user privacy that’s synonymous with Mullvad. Mullvad is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service that’s known for its strong commitment to user privacy, anonymity, and security. Services like Mullvad help you browse the internet more privately. Tailscale vs. (BACK TO TOP)
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Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of logic—in more or […] (BACK TO TOP)
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial, we'll explore this new world, and build an intuition for how it works, and how we can take advantage of it. (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to build virtual relationships between tables in PlanetScale while using the Drizzle TypeScript ORM. (BACK TO TOP)
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko . (BACK TO TOP)
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Moving forward in our careers often means giving and receiving feedback. But how candid can we be in communicating with others? For Kim Scott, anything less than radical just isn’t enough. An executive, speaker, author, and executive coach, Scott is known for her concept of radical candor, which she defines as “caring personally and challenging directly at the same time.” More Resources Kim Scott, personal website and on LinkedIn The Radical Candor podcast See Privacy Policy at https://art19. (BACK TO TOP)
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Read how we developed a simple BPFtrace program to observe the execution of vacuum calls (and analyze their needed execution time) in PostgreSQL. (BACK TO TOP)
Firefox performance on Vue.js has improved significantly throughout the year. Most recently, we sped up reactivity with Proxy optimizations. This change landed in Firefox 118, so it’s currently on Beta and will ride along to Release by the end of September. The post Faster Vue.js Execution in Firefox appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We are excited to share the news that both Weave GitOps Assured and the Azure Accelerator Program have made their debut on the Azure Marketplace . This marks a significant milestone, making it even more accessible for our broad customer base to leverage these offerings directly from Azure's platform. What is Weave GitOps Assured? Weave GitOps Assured is a premium software and support subscription designed to help enterprises mitigate risks and accelerate their cloud-native objectives.works (BACK TO TOP)
Embarking on a journey Stepping out of SFO with the familiarity of the fogginess of the city, my story at Slack unfolds once again. As a return intern, I found myself prepped for another exciting summer, and this opportunity encompassed a renewed sense of anticipation — a mix between known pathways and new adventures. Returning […] The post My Summer Return Internship @ Slack: A Guide on Building on Past Experiences appeared first on Slack Engineering . (BACK TO TOP)
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The management consulting firm McKinsey & Company recently posted a blog post titled Yes, you can measure software developer productivity. The post prompted a lot of responses, such as Kent Beck and Gergely Orosz’s Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey, Dan North’s The Worst Programmer I Know, and John Cutler’s The Ultimate Guide to … Continue reading On productivity metrics and management consultants → (BACK TO TOP)
Sentry's Open Source values are 1) sustainability for maintainers and 2) access to technology and knowledge for developers. If you share our values then let's work together to move the conversation forward. (BACK TO TOP)
It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term ‘OpenTelemetry… (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Shantanu Shahane, Software Engineer, and Matthias Ihme, Research Scientist, Athena Team Turbulence is ubiquitous in environmental and engineering fluid flows, and is encountered routinely in everyday life. However, despite its importance, our current understanding and our ability to reliably predict such flows remains limited. When the grid spacing is small enough, the discrete grid points are enough to represent the true (continuous) equations without the loss of accuracy.3).e.e.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Posted by Si-An Chen, Student Researcher, Cloud AI Team, and Chun-Liang Li, Research Scientist, Cloud AI Team Time series forecasting is critical to various real-world applications, from demand forecasting to pandemic spread prediction . In multivariate time series forecasting (forecasting multiple variants at the same time), one can split existing methods into two categories: univariate models and multivariate models. Transformer block and TSMixer block architectures.g.g. The WRMSSE on M5. (BACK TO TOP)
Scaling Productivity with Ava — Instacart’s Internal AI Assistant Zain Adil, Kevin Lei and Ada Cohen Overview Over the past few months, we’ve been building an internal AI assistant powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 models called Ava. Ava has seen accelerated adoption at Instacart, with over half of Instacart employees using it every month and more than 900 using it every week . Expanding Ava to users beyond Engineering Ava took off more quickly than we expected. (BACK TO TOP)
Instacart’s Item Availability Architecture: Solving for scale and consistency. This blog post is the last segment in a three-part series that outlines our innovative approach to overcoming inventory challenges, delving into the application of product design, machine learning, and engineering technology. Here are Part-1 and Part-2 of the series if you want to catch up. In our second part, we delved into the machine-learning artistry behind real-time predictions for hundreds of millions of items. (BACK TO TOP)
Today we are announcing two major new hosting products available to all Hacker and Pro subscribers. Scalable hosting infrastructure solidifies Replit as the fastest place to go from idea to production: 1. Autoscale Deployments - Infrastructure that scales up when your app goes viral and scales down when your app goes unused. Only pay for the resources you use. 2. Static Deployments - Free option to host client-side sites like blogs and websites. Best of all, it's directly from the editor.js. (BACK TO TOP)
Replit Deployments is our new offering that allows you to quickly go from idea, to code, to production. To make the experience as seamless as possible, we built tooling to convert a repl into a container imager which can be deployed to either a Google Cloud Virtual Machine or to Cloud Run. Early on, we started to hit some issues with large images taking too long to deploy to a virtual machine. It could take minutes to pull and unpack the container image before it could be started.e.tar.gz".tar. (BACK TO TOP)
Grow your market share and lose the data set-up issues. Run the numbers for your potential profits with our handy calculator. The post Don’t leave money at the rack appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
Hurricane Idalia has caused thousands of power outages with significantly more to follow. Find out how DTN Storm Risk Analytics predicts outages before a storm, including a real-time look at Idalia. The post DTN Summer Storm Series: Hurricanes appeared first on DTN . (BACK TO TOP)
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led some security experts to conclude that crooks likely have succeeded at cracking open some of the stolen LastPass vaults. (BACK TO TOP)
Domain names ending in “.US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in .US. Also, .US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S. citizens and to those who can demonstrate that they have a physical presence in the United States. (BACK TO TOP)
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Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action , by Dr. Mor Harchol-Balter. Cross-posted with https://emptysqua.re/blog/review-queue-theory-book/ We are A. Jesse Jiryu Davis , Andrew Helwer , and Murat Demirbas , three enthusiasts of distributed systems and formal methods. We’re looking for rigorous ways to model the performance of distributed systems, and we hoped this book would point the way. I wouldn’t have tried this alone. Andrew: I did not.g. I enjoyed Dr. (BACK TO TOP)
While idly browsing tlaplus/Examples repository, I noticed TLA+ spec for a snapshot isolated Key-Value Store written by my friend Andrew Helwer . This is a centralized database. Each transaction makes a copy of the store, and OCC merges their copy back to store upon commit. I immediately wanted to write a PlusCal version of it and contribute back. My motivations were: Let's see how quickly I can write the PlusCal version. This way I can get practice converting TLA+ specs to PlusCal.e. Open the . (BACK TO TOP)
A common problem in parsing is that you want to find all identifiers (e.g., variable names, function names) in a document quickly. There are typically some fixed rules. For example, it is common to allow ASCII letters and digits as well as characters like ‘_’ in the identifier, but to forbid some characters at the … Continue reading Locating ‘identifiers’ quickly (ARM NEON edition) (BACK TO TOP)
Physicists have a published a paper with 5154 authors. The list of authors takes 24 pages out of the 33 pages. The lesson is that if someone tell you that they have published an important paper, you should ask how many authors there were and what their exact role was. Vegatarians are at higher risk … Continue reading Science and Technology links (September 2 2023) (BACK TO TOP)
Retool AI is a suite of features to build bespoke AI-powered tools for your business. Connect to any LLM provider, build apps and workflows visually or with code, and publish securely to your users—all in just a few minutes. Get started for free today. (BACK TO TOP)
Whether you’re prioritizing ease of debugging, an opinionated style, or the scale of community supporting your framework of choice, we dive into the pros and cons of React and Angular and their current roles on the frontend landscape. (BACK TO TOP)
Awardees have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools to perform cutting-edge research in generative AI. (BACK TO TOP)
Benchmarking framework that includes a product-agnostic public dataset, guidelines for model selection, and an evaluation approach helps bridge the gap between research and real-world implementation. (BACK TO TOP)
Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer , with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading on a smaller device). I’m quite excited about the cover, which is simple and imperfect. Second, I’ve done a lot of writing. Every one of those is an idea that I intended for the book.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed as discouraging honesty. On the other side of things, there are numerous stories of spending months crafting Google promotion packets that still don’t get their authors promoted.g. Managers in a sub-organization (e.g.g.g. (BACK TO TOP)
Listen now | LangChain's CEO takes the haters on. Including our trademark Executive Summary of LangChain's origins, current scope, future with LangSmith, and the story behind the website. His advice: Just Build! (BACK TO TOP)
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A series of amazing breakthroughs are allowing paralyzed people to speak and emote. With each passing month, we get closer to a brain-computer interface that might unlock some of the deepest mysteries of our grey matter. (BACK TO TOP)
We needed to remove the dependency on the Sites database and contain all Teams infrastructure and data within the TFZ which is all part of Phase II. (BACK TO TOP)
Ben and friend of the show Kyle Mitofsky sit down with Reid Robinson, lead product manager for AI at Zapier, for a conversation about AI and automation. Plus: NFTs and the dog behind the doge. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars: My September column in Locus Magazine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.com/2023/09/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-plausible-sentence-generators/ Here's what happened: I got stranded at JFK due to heavy weather and an air-traffic control tower fire that locked down every westbound flight on the east coast. The problem was that I didn't know anything about filing a small claim. So I googled it.emergentmind.npr. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links NLRB rules that any union busting means automatic union recognition: Biden's photocopier-kickers will give American workers the unions they desperately desire. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. That's about to change. The National Labor Relations Board just handed down a landmark ruling – the Cemex case – that "brought worker rights back from the dead." https://prospect. For decades, even the most flagrantly illegal union-busting was met with a wrist-slap.jstor.ieee.archive. (BACK TO TOP)
Today's links Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger": On late capitalism's double-vision and double trouble. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger" (permalink) If the Naomi be Klein you’re doing just fine If the Naomi be Wolf Oh, buddy. Ooooof.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger This is a very odd book.youtube.medium.sipr.ac.cnn. (BACK TO TOP)
I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the decades working in software. And mostly, I look at people with a passionate preference and smile. Isn't it great that people care so much about their craft that they volunteer to extol the benefits of their favorite tools! Yes it is, but there's also a fine line between being a passionate evangelist and becoming a dogmatic crusader. It was at times a full-on meltdown. Yuck. I really am. (BACK TO TOP)
By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes , not after giving it five years. So it's with great pleasure that I can announce we're dropping TypeScript from the next big release of Turbo 8. The fact is that I actually rather like JavaScript. Yes, a distant second, but a second none the less. (BACK TO TOP)
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some clear feedback. But if the problem is with core competency – their technical skills – you can't expect to solve that with a stern conversation. But eventually it will be clear, and when it is, you have to act accordingly. (BACK TO TOP)
Meta presents Chakra execution traces, an open graph-based representation of AI/ML workload execution, laying the foundation for benchmarking and network performance optimization. Chakra execution traces represent key operations, such as compute, memory, and communication, data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. In collaboration with MLCommons, we are seeking industry-wide adoption for benchmarking. Meta open [...] Read More... (BACK TO TOP)
We’re introducing Arcadia, Meta’s unified system that simulates the compute, memory, and network performance of AI training clusters. Extracting maximum performance from an AI cluster and increasing overall efficiency warrants a multi-input system that accounts for various hardware and software parameters across compute, storage, and network collectively. Arcadia gives Meta’s researchers and engineers valuable insights [...] Read More... (BACK TO TOP)
Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It would have all the features people expect from a text-based conversations app, but with one very key, distinctive goal – being an app that would allow people to share their content across multiple platforms. We [...] Read More... The post Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Dustin Shahidehpour and Katherine Zak, two software engineers at Meta, to talk about their careers and what it’s really like to ship code at Meta. Why does Meta have [...] Read More... The post What is it like to write code at Meta? appeared first on Engineering at Meta . (BACK TO TOP)
This blog announces Cloudflare One for Data Protection — our unified suite to protect data everywhere across web, SaaS, and private applications. Built on and delivered across our entire global network, Cloudflare One’s data protection suite is architected for the risks of modern coding and AI (BACK TO TOP)
Cloudflare One just launched its data protection suite. This blog previews new functionality to protect data and code in SaaS environments with our DLP and CASB services and looks back on what we have built over the past year (BACK TO TOP)
In this blog we’re going to take a closer look at “connection coalescing”, with specific focus on manage it at a large scale (BACK TO TOP)
We’re excited to announce improvements to Workers Tail that means it can now be enabled for Workers at any size and scale (BACK TO TOP)
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A 10-step Python Guide to Automate 3D Shape Detection, Segmentation, Clustering, and Voxelization for Space Occupancy 3D Modeling of… Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Leveraging qLoRA for Fine-Tuning of Task-Fine-Tuned Models Without Catastrophic Forgetting: A Case Study with LLaMA2(-chat) Learn how to infuse knowledge into purpose-fine-tuned models while keeping their task-specific nature Photo by StableDiffusionXL on Amazon Web Services What is this about and why is it important? Large language models (LLMs) like Anthropic’s Claude or Meta’s LLaMA2 have demonstrated impressive capabilities on a variety of natural language tasks.g.g.g.g.9, temperature = 0. (BACK TO TOP)
Part 1 of my Series on Generative AI for Large Enterprises: From Governance to Aggregating APIs. Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Data Science Better Practices, Part 1 — Test Your Queries How to make sure our queries do what we expect them to — and other future boons. Generated with Midjourney The field of Data Science has its roots in Mathematics and Statistics as well as Computer Science. While it has developed considerably in the past few decades, it is only in the past 10–15 years that it rose to prominence as a well-established role in the organization and as a stand-alone field in the tech industry.25 rather than 1.. (BACK TO TOP)
A graph-based approach to modeling the spread of information through social networks Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
Creating maps that capture the eye Continue reading on Towards Data Science » (BACK TO TOP)
At its core, the ESP32 chip is not much more than an integrated circuit, a huge mass of transistors sealed inside an epoxy resin package with some leads. Of course, …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Although ChatGPT generated a huge amount of hype around replacing white collar workers completely when it was first released to the public, the general consensus now is that it won’t …read more (BACK TO TOP)
It was an easy decision to run a Cyberdeck Challenge in 2023 — after all, it was far and away one of our most popular contests from last year. But …read more (BACK TO TOP)
The humble transistor radio is one of those consumer devices that stubbornly refuses to go away, but it’s fair to say that it’s not the mover and shaker in the …read more (BACK TO TOP)
A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and …read more (BACK TO TOP)
The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in …read more (BACK TO TOP)
Jerod & the gang discuss the news (Astro 3.0, Vercel + Astro, Python in Excel) then play eight crazy rounds of HeadLIES! Headline or headLIE? You decide… (BACK TO TOP)
V Körbes returns to talk prototyping with Natalie, Johnny & Kris. Is Go good for prototyping? What makes a language prototypable, anyway? How does space radiation fit in to all this? Tune in and ride along to find out! (BACK TO TOP)
This week we’re talking about the launch of OpenTF and what it’s going to take to successfully fork HashiCorp’s Terraform. We’re joined by Josh Padnick to discuss what exactly happened, how HashiCorp’s license change changes things, who has been impacted by this change, and ultimately what they are doing about it. (BACK TO TOP)
In this episode we welcome back our good friend Demetrios from the MLOps Community to discuss fine-tuning vs. retrieval augmented generation. Along the way, we also chat about OpenAI Enterprise, results from the MLOps Community LLM survey, and the orchestration and evaluation of generative AI workloads. (BACK TO TOP)
Dan North tells the tale of Tim, the worst programmer he’s worked with (who also is a heck of a programmer), Kevin Lin declares that OpenTelemetry delivers on its promise for open observability, Justin Garrison details Terraform vs GitOps vs System Initiative, Inc. writes how Apple beats burnout & Aline Lerner’s advice on how (not) to sabotage your salary negotiations before you even start. (BACK TO TOP)
Go Time panelist (and semi-professional unpopular opinion maker) Kris Brandow joins us to discuss his deep-dive on the waterfall paper, his dislike of the “tech debt” analogy, why documentation matters so much & how everything is a distributed system. (BACK TO TOP)
Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the world’s biggest developer ecosystem forward. Get ready to go to school kids, this one’s deep! (BACK TO TOP)
On today's Kubernetes Unpacked, Michael and Kristina catch up with Roberth Strand, Principal Cloud Engineer at Amesto Fortytwo to talk about all things Internal Developer Platform (IDP) on Kubernetes and beyond. Roberth dives into what an IDP is, what it isn’t, and how all engineers should be thinking about IDPs. If you’re interested in diving into platform engineering, this is the perfect episode for you. (BACK TO TOP)
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Ed, Scott, and Tom bring Nick Buraglio back on to the show to discuss IPv6 Unique Local Addressing and the latest activity at the IETF to attempt to address both protocol and operational challenges associated with RFC 6724. The post IPv6 Buzz 134: Revisiting Unique Local Addressing At The IETF appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Today's Day Two Cloud kicks off an occasional series on cloud essentials. For the first episode we discuss the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A VPC is an fundamental construct of a public cloud. It's essentially your slice of the shared cloud infrastructure, and you can launch and run other elements within a VPC to support your workload. The post Day Two Cloud 209: Cloud Essentials – Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
Drones can be a useful tool for outdoor wireless surveys. Drones can help an engineer figure out the best place to mount a radio, get line of sight between points, confirm antenna orientation, and save a lot of climbing up and down ladders. On today's Heavy Wireless, Keith Parsons speaks with Mike Wade, a wireless design engineer who uses drones in his survey work, about the certifications and requirements necessary to add a drone to your toolkit. (BACK TO TOP)
Heavy Networking 698: Integrating Edge Networking And Compute With VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (Sponsored)
On today’s Heavy Networking we explore the edge. But where is the edge? In today's conversation with sponsor VMware, it's a remote location where data is being generated. It could be end users in a branch office, or IoT devices and sensors on a factory floor. These edge locations needs integrated compute and networking to run application workloads while also being able to connect to cloud applications and services. (BACK TO TOP)
Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we discuss the Network Automation Forum (NAF) and its inaugural independent conference--AutoCon 0. The networking industry has been taking about automation forever, but most engineers and organizations don't get much beyond a few scripts. The Network Automation Forum wants to change that by serving as a salon where enterprises, service providers, and vendors can talk openly about what works, what doesn't, and how to advance the state of the art. (BACK TO TOP)
Today on Network Break we discuss Juniper integrating ChatGPT with its AI digital assistant, Microsoft's plan to unbundle Teams in the EU to fend off regulators, financial results from soon-to-be-paired Broadcom and VMware, a 5G follow-up, and more. The post Network Break 445: Juniper Pairs With ChatGPT, Microsoft To Unpair Teams In The EU appeared first on Packet Pushers . (BACK TO TOP)
In today's sponsored Heavy Networking we explore new features in Cisco Thousand Eyes, an operational tool based on visibility and observability of public and private network. Thousand Eyes has continued to grow into complex operational areas such AWS Network Path, Webex performance, and integrations with Meraki to help you identify and fix network and application performance problems. (BACK TO TOP)
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost The news: One of the leading companies offering alternatives to lithium batteries for the grid has just received a nearly… (BACK TO TOP)
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I’d be willing to bet that you probably haven’t spent much time thinking about the liquid that sloshes around inside batteries. But this liquid—called the electrolyte—is one of their key ingredients, and… (BACK TO TOP)
One of the leading companies offering alternatives to lithium batteries for the grid just got a nearly $400 million loan from the US Department of Energy. Eos Energy makes zinc-halide batteries, which the firm hopes could one day be used to store renewable energy at a lower cost than is possible with existing lithium-ion batteries.… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say. In the past year, kids, teachers, and parents have had a crash course in artificial intelligence, thanks… (BACK TO TOP)
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Chinese ChatGPT-like bots are having a moment right now. As I reported last week, Baidu became the first Chinese tech company to roll out its large language model—called Ernie Bot—to the… (BACK TO TOP)
In the past year, kids, teachers, and parents have had a crash course in artificial intelligence, thanks to the wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. In a knee-jerk reaction, some schools, such as the New York City public schools, banned the technology—only to cancel the ban months later. Now that many adults have caught up with… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: MIT Technology Review’s 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch For decades, MIT Technology Review has published annual lists highlighting the advances redefining what technology can do and the brightest minds pushing… (BACK TO TOP)
AI language models are not humans, and yet we evaluate them as if they were, using tests like the bar exam or the United States Medical Licensing Examination. The models tend to do really well in these exams, probably because examples of such exams are abundant in the models’ training data. As my colleague Will… (BACK TO TOP)
For decades, MIT Technology Review has published annual lists highlighting the advances redefining what technology can do and the brightest minds pushing their fields forward. This year, we’re launching a new list, recognizing companies making progress on one of society’s most pressing challenges: climate change. MIT Technology Review’s 15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch will… (BACK TO TOP)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How one elite university is approaching ChatGPT this school year For many people, the start of September marks the real beginning of the year. Back-to-school season always feels like a reset moment. However,… (BACK TO TOP)
Let's embark on an exploration of what conceptual design entails, how it shapes the foundation of projects, and its impact on UX. The post Conceptual design: Definition, step-by-step breakdown appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
A lot has changed about programming since the CSS lobotomized owl selector was introduced in 2014. Learn to use it in a modern context here. The post CSS lobotomized owl selector: A modern guide appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Transformational leadership centers on inspiring and motivating people to achieve a definitive, positive change that solves a bigger problem. The post A guide to transformational leadership appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Next.js environment variables influence the way an application runs or behaves in different contexts and environments. The post Customizing environment variables in Next.js 13 appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Business value is important because you want to ensure that you deliver on customer experience while focusing on areas that will drive the business forward. The post How to stay focused on business value appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Labels in UX design help explain the purpose and functionality of an interactive website element, such as buttons, icons, forms, and menus. The post Label UX: Definition, best practices, examples appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
The Johari window is a psychological framework for identifying perceived attitudes, behavior, and habits of employees. The post The Johari window: Improved communication and awareness appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
In a Node.js app, you can send emails using an email API to better automate and customize communications with your users. The post How to send emails in Node.js using email APIs appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
We review several approaches for using CSS to further optimize responsive data table UX to enable users to better access, analyze, and interpret data. The post Improving responsive data table UX with CSS appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Secondment is a neat way to pilot a specific role or career without having to go all-in to it right away. The post What is secondment and how can it help your career? appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Here, we’ll show you how to harness the power of letter casing by discussing the various casing options and how they can shape UX. The post How correctly casing letters enhances visual hierarchy and UX appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
Learn how to use Kanel to generate TypeScript types from PostgreSQL, then see it in action by building a to-do app. The post Kanel tutorial: Generating TypeScript types from PostgreSQL appeared first on LogRocket Blog . (BACK TO TOP)
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