Tech roundup 24: a journal published by a bot

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AI, bots and robots

• Autism research on single neurons suggests signaling problems in brain circuits
• China recalls giant pandas from San Diego Zoo amid U.S. trade war
• Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought
• Notes on Weight Initialization for Deep Neural Networks
• Google’s lung cancer detection AI outperforms 6 human radiologists
• Pythia: Open-source framework for multimodal AI models
• Python built-ins worth learning
• Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network from Scratch in Python
• Google’s AI can now translate your speech while keeping your voice
• Dependabot Is Joining GitHub
• Introduction to Learning Rates in Machine Learning
• To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
• TurboTax Uses a “Military Discount” to Trick Troops into Paying to File Taxes
• Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction
  Posted by Tali Dekel, Research Scientist and Forrester Cole, Software Engineer, Machine Perception The human visual system has a remarka…
• Churn Prediction Machine Learning Model with Python

Blockchain and decentralization

• Number go down: the single trade that crashed Bitcoin
• Craig Wright files copyright claim for Bitcoin white paper
• Blockchain-Flavored WASI
• Peergos Alpha – A decentralized file storage and communication network

Cloud and architecture

• Israeli firm linked to WhatsApp spyware attack faces lawsuit
• Cloudflare architecture and how BPF eats the world
• Why I’m completely rewriting my $5,735 MRR SaaS
• Ryeboard – Part virtual board, part cloud-storage
• Building a To-Do List with Cloudflare Workers and KV
• GFWaaS – Make Your Website Work in China
• Announcing the new pricing plan for AWS Config rules
• A Day in the Life of a Principal Space Architect
• Lawsuit accuses Apple of selling iTunes data
• nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

Development and languages

• Programming Language Reminiscence: R-Technology
• Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8
  In early 2003, Intel launched the new Pentium 4 “HT” processor. This processor was clocked at 3 GHz and had “Hyper-Threading” Technology.
• Dear Programming Job Applicant
  This article is written with considerable
  snark–put on your flameproof suit if needed. I’m not actually a jerk
  when interviewing people, but I do get frustrated when candidates fail
  to do basic preparation. If you’re unsure about how to prepare for a
  programming interview, read on…

  I know this might come as a shock to you, but most programming job applicants suck. I’ve interviewed my fair share this month, and it’ll be a lot easier for all of us if I tell you upfront what I’m looking for.

  As a hiring manager, my job is to make sure you can do the job you’re applying for. For programming that means you need to be able to program. So when I whip out a laptop in our round-one interview and ask you to write some code, try to hide your terrified expression.

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• Italy opens antitrust probe into Google because of a rejected Android Auto app
• Python 3 TSP solver without dependencies
• New features planned for Python 4.0
• Amber Brown: Batteries Included, but They’re Leaking (Python Language Summit)
• Python: Batteries Included, but They’re Leaking
  Amber Brown of the Twisted project shared her criticisms of the Python standard library. This proved to be the day’s most controversial ta…
• Digitization Effort Is the Latest Plot Twist for Cuban Radio Soap Operas
• ‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab
  For Elisabetta Matsumoto, knot theory is knit theory.
• Congress should grow the Digital Services budget, it more than pays for itself
• WebAssembly in Redex
• Google pulls Huawei’s Android license, forcing it to use open source version
• Huawei Responds to Android Ban
• Huawei and other mobile “tech giants”: you should break free from Android
• MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries
• Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android: Things You Need to Know to Be Prepared
• Get Started with 6502 Assembly Programming on Atari Lynx
• Alan Kay and OO Programming
• Huawei’s ‘HongMeng’ operating system to gradually replace Android
• WebRender MVP ships in Firefox 67 on Windows
• Firefox 67: Dark Mode CSS, WebRender, and More
• Popular Frameworks of Python with Key Features
• GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators
• HongMeng OS Is Huawei’s Alternative to Android (Rumor)
• It’s Official: Tor Browser Is Stable on Android
• Huawei’s alternative OS to Android set to roll out as early as fall
• The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp
• Anything C# Can Do: A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F#
  A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F#
• Tanker: End-to-End Encryption SDK for JavaScript
  Tanker client-side encryption SDK for JavaScript. Contribute to TankerHQ/sdk-js development by creating an account on GitHub.
• The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction
• E Programming Language
• Make the Leap from JavaScript to PureScript
  Introduction“Make the Leap from JavaScript to PureScript” takes some of the most popular functional programming (FP) abstractions in JavaScript and demonstrates how to implement them in PureScript. I borrowed the series outline and JavaScript code samples with permis…
• Python is now a prerequisite for all these banking jobs
• PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python’s standard library
  The official home of the Python Programming Language
• GitHub Sponsors
  Financially support the people behind your favorite open source projects with GitHub Sponsors.
• Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source
• WPF Code Now on GitHub
• JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat
• GitHub is finally listening to developers again
  Microsoft rescued GitHub—and it’s back the tools developers always wanted, along with a healthier open source community.
• The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android
• Sourcetrail – Visual Source Explorer Now Supports Python
• Belly.io – Curated List of Programming / Coding Streamers
• What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning
• More Productive Git
  Tips for acquiring Git super powers.
• Pip3 install videoflow – new Python library to do computer vision on video
• JLua: Yet another Lua implementation in JavaScript
  Yet another Lua implementation in pure JavaScript. – hsiaosiyuan0/jlua
• DSLs for non-programmers are a hoax
  Programmer’s delight.
• Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision of the Digital Afterlife

Quote of the week

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

        — John Johnson

Enterprises

• AMD Ryzen V1000 Single Board Computer PROFIVE NUCV
• Amazon leads $575M investment in Deliveroo
  Amazon is taking a slice of Europe’s food delivery market after the U.S. e-commerce giant led a $575 million investment in Deliveroo . First reported by Sky yesterday, the Series G round was confirmed in an early U.K. morning announcement from Deliveroo, which said that existing backers, incl…
• Google, Smart to Establish Free WiFi Stations in Philippines
• Translating an ARM iOS App to Intel macOS Using Bitcode
• Google-affiliate Sidewalk Labs has angered Toronto
  Canada is not Google’s lab rat, say those protesting against plans to build a smart city in Toronto.
• Chicago becomes first city to collect “Netflix tax”
  As entertainment and shopping moves online, states and cities are looking to the digital world for potential revenue
• Musk to review all of Tesla’s expenses in new cost cutting plan
  Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk told employees on Thursday that he w…
• Musk to review all of Tesla’s expenses in new cost cutting plan
  Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk told employees on Thursday that he w…
• AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities
• Measuring the system clock frequency using loops (Intel and ARM)
• Google’s Civil War
• AMD Ryzen Mini-STX: ASRock’s DeskMini A300 – Finally
• Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist
• Google suspends some business with Huawei
  Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the …
• Leaving Google Fi
• Sony’s Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team
• Google confirms Play store will continue to function for existing Huawei phones
  Huawei now finds itself in a similar situation to that of rival ZTE last year, which faced a nearly 3-month ban from doing business with US companies.
• Tesla: Insane or Clever
  by Jean-Louis Gassée
• Google announces a new $999 Glass augmented reality headset
• Microsoft’s Edge for Mac browser now available in preview
• Google Salary Ranges and Levels – Levels.fyi
• Intel Performance Hit 5x Harder Than AMD After Spectre, Meltdown Patches
• Startups can use Amazon’s SEO best practices to dominate shopping verticals
  Amazon dominates the top ranking positions of Google for tens of thousands of ecommerce queries, but there are plenty of products in newer categories where Amazon has not yet achieved SEO supremacy.
• The First Microsoft Edge Preview Builds for macOS
  Last month, we announced the first preview builds of the next version of Microsoft Edge for Windows 10. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of the Microsoft Edge Canary channel for m…
• Silicon Valley’s Shame: Living in a Van in Google’s Backyard
• Tesla’s Touchscreen UI: A Case Study of Car-Dashboard User Interface
• Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations
• Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently worth in 2013, report says
  Apple reportedly offered to buy Tesla at around $240 per share back in 2013. The bid from six years ago is now being reported as Tesla’s share price has dipped under the price Apple was allegedly willing to pay. Today, Craig Irwin, senior research analyst at Roth Capital Partners, went on CNBC and talked about …
• Google Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags
• Sam Altman on Twitter: It’s gross seeing so many root against Tesla
• Morgan Stanley Slashes Worst-Case Price for Tesla to $10
• ZetaSQL – A SQL Analyzer Framework from Google
  ZetaSQL – Analyzer Framework for SQL. Contribute to google/zetasql development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Netflix is not the future of TV
• Go is Google’s language, not ours
• Google has stored some passwords in plaintext since 2005
• Huawei unwanted: Asian shops shun phone trade-ins on Google suspension worries
  Mobile phone retailers in some Asian countries are refusing to accept Huawei dev…
• Ice-T says he almost shot an Amazon delivery driver ‘creeping up to my crib’
• Google and Binomial Partner to Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format
  The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.
• Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
  Amazon.com Inc said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial…
• Google has been storing G Suite user passwords in plain text for 14 years
• Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees’ Call to Respond to Climate Change
• Google faces first investigation European lead authority over GDPR
  Today, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into “suspected infringement” by Google’s DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers advertising business. The probe was triggered by a formal complaint from Dr Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, the private web browser.
• Artificial general intelligence is here, and it’s useless
• Create thousands of videos from a Google sheet
• Apple’s WebKit team proposes a way ads can be measured while maintaining privacy
  Safari tech ready to be ignored by online ad giants like all other privacy proposals
• Do big companies like Google and Amazon fire developers for buggy releases?
• How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?

Other news

• Quants Think Like Amateurs in China’s Wild Stock Market
• Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked
• South Korean Government to Switch from Windows to Linux
  The government will switch the operating system of its computers from Windows to Linux, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Thursday.The Interior Ministry said the ministry will be test-running Linux on its PCs, and if no security issues arise, Linux systems will be introduced more widely within the government. (Yonhap)The decision comes amid concerns about the cost of continuing to maintain Windows, as Micr…
• Due to professional hacking, this website has been removed from the web
• When Women Outrun Men
• Faux Rogan
• Stack Overflow Confirms Internal Network Hack
  Q&A website Stack Overflow has confirmed via its platform that it experienced a security breach over the weekend, but says hackers didn’t access user data.
• A new memory profiler for Linux written in Rust
  Contribute to nokia/memory-profiler development by creating an account on GitHub.
• UXY – adding structure to Unix tools
• Using an Atari ST as Unix/Linux Terminal
• Paul Graham: “Airbnb happened because its founders could not pay their rent”
• What I learned as a VC filling in as a startup CEO for 4 months
• Billionaire Robert F. Smith pledges to pay Morehouse 2019 grads’ student loans
  Morehouse College seniors got a surprise Sunday when billionaire investor Robert F. Smith announced during his commencement speech that he would pay off the student loan debt for the historically black college’s graduating class.
• Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts
• Linux’s Vmalloc Seeing “Large Performance Benefits” with 5.2 Kernel Changes
• 60% of male managers are “uncomfortable” working around women
• Linux distros without systemd
• Mexico becomes the deadliest country for journalists in 2019
• Letter from an “Anti-School Teacher”
• Hack the Original MySpace Samy Worm
• 60% Male Managers Are Uncomfortable Mentoring Women in MeToo Era
  To make the workplace safe AND equal, we need more men to mentor and sponsor women.
• Minimum pay at Basecamp is now $70k
• Economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal
  Here’s how that might save science.
• Linux apps that run anywhere
• Creating and Using a Custom Linux Kernel on Guix System
• Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory
• Integrated Circuits Can Be Easy to Understand with the Right Teachers
• The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack
• Antergos Linux Project Ends
  What started as a summertime hobby seven years ago quickly grew into an awesome Linux distribution with an even more awesome community around it.
• Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug
  The bank’s acknowledgment that faulty software had been used to screen transactions for suspicious activity came a day before executives prepared to face restive investors at an annual meeting.
• Where the Educated Millennials Congregate
• Free Courses to Learn Docker in 2019
• Learn angel investing and VC with some skin in the game
• Men Are Paying Sixfold Markups to Feel Cool About Buying Generic Viagra
• I’d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education
• iPhones, Armed Robbery, and Hacking
• PayPal’s Beautiful Demonstration of Extended Validation FUD
  Sometimes the discussion around extended validation certificates (EV) feels a little like flogging a dead horse. In fact, it was only September that I proposed EV certificates are already dead for all sorts of good reasons that have only been reinforced since that time. Yet somehow, the discussion does seem
• ZFS on Linux 0.8.0 Tagged
  ZFS on Linux – the official OpenZFS implementation for Linux. – zfsonlinux/zfs
• Moody’s downgraded Equifax from “stable” to “negative” due to cybersecurity
• Preferred Women’s Waist-to-Hip Ratio Variation over the Last 2,500 Years
• It’s Never Been Easier to Be a CEO, and the Pay Keeps Rising
• Maker of US border’s license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker
  Perceptics confirms intrusion and theft, stays quiet on details
• Nearly 25% of Americans are going into debt to pay for necessities like food
• Verifying Quantum Proofs with Entangled Games
• Monitoring Linux Processes Using Prometheus and Grafana
• The High Cost of Low-Level Crime in San Francisco – City Journal
  The high cost of low-level crime in the City by the Bay

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