Tech roundup 141: a journal published by a bot

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AI, bots and robots

• Japanese Words in Neuromancer
• Leveraging AI in Photonics and Beyond
• Apple’s Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
  Apple’s director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned from his role a little over four years after he joined the company after…
• Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference
• Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild
• We raised $100M for open and collaborative machine learning
• Beyond Message Passing: A Physics-Inspired Paradigm for Graph Neural Networks
  On going beyond message-passing based graph neural networks with physics-inspired “continuous” learning models
• Factory: Fast Contact for Robotic Assembly
• Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
• Learning Rust – Day 4 – Understanding Modules
• Introduction to Diffusion Models for Machine Learning
• Ultimaker and Makerbot merge to form new 3D printing company
• Building the world’s most realistic robot
• Employers’ Use of AI Tools Can Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act
  The Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today each released a technical assistance document about disability discrimination when employers use artificial intelligence (AI) and other software tools to make employment decisions.
• Nanobots Can Swim Around a Wound and Kill Bacteria
• A portable wind turbine the size of a water bottle

Blockchain and decentralization

• Using Java’s Project Loom to build more reliable distributed systems
• The golden rule of software distributions
• UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
  The development comes after the Luna Foundation Guard announced that its massive bitcoin reserves will be used to defend UST’s dollar peg.
• Announcing the PyOxy Python Runner, a single file (C)Python distribution
• Coinbase Q1/22 Shareholder Letter
• Coinbase stock falls -15% after hours, after quarterly revenue misses estimates
• UST “Stablecoin” at $.31
• El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets
• Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
  If the exchange goes down, it’s taking investors with it.
• Bitcoin Is Acting Like Just Another Tech Stock
• Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke and Why It Matters
  Last week, a luna coin was worth $85. Now it’s worth a penny. Here’s why that matters.
• Over $1.2B in Bitcoin reserves remains unaccounted for by Luna Fdn. Guard
• Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire

Cloud and architecture

• Xilem: An Architecture for UI in Rust
  Rust is an appealing language for building user interfaces for a variety of reasons, especially the promise of delivering both performance and safety. However, finding a good architecture is challenging. Architectures that work well in other languages generally don’t adapt well to Rust, mostly because they rely on shared mutable state and that is not idiomatic Rust, to put it mildly. It is sometimes asserted for this reason that Rust is a poor fit for UI. I have long believed that it is possible to find an architecture for UI well suited to implementation in Rust, but my previous attempts (including the current Druid architecture) have all
• Dark Pattern: How YouTube Makes Sure You Don’t Always “Skip Ad”
• Cloud TPU VMs are generally available
  Cloud TPU VMs with Ranking & Recommendation acceleration are generally available on Google Cloud. Customers will have direct access to TPU host machines.
• ‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics from Raw Data
• Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brokers

Development and languages

• The triple dot syntax (` `) in JavaScript: rest vs. spread
• Weron – A Peer-to-Peer VPN Based on WebRTC Written in Go
  Overlay networks based on WebRTC. Contribute to pojntfx/weron development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Some CUDA programming fun with Julia
  Suppose we want to draw a batch of images, where each image is made up of randomly positioned and colored triangles, that are blending. It will look like this:
• New Assembly Like Programming Language?
• Multiple assignment and tuple unpacking improve Python code readability
• Thieves in London target digital investors by taking phones
• PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
  Windows PowerToys are a set of powerful utilities (I can’t live without them btw) that Microsoft just hasn’t implemented into Windows OS.
• Wordle in Python using literate programming
• Compiling an OpenBSD kernel 50% faster
• Waterbear is a toolkit for making programming more accessible and fun
• Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR
  Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥 – GitHub – naptha/tesseract.js: Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥
• Lemon Squeezy: Sell digital products the easy-peasy way
• A most vexing parse, but for Python packaging
• Pythondocs.xyz – Live search for Python documentation
• A Spatial Environment for Python
• If Programming Languages Were Futurama Characters
• Programming Style Influences
• Managing Python Versions with Pyenv
  Today’s article is about one of the most impressive pieces of software Python-related I have ever seen: pyenv. pyenv is the most clever way of installing Python on your system and allows you to install and manage several different versions of Python specifying a different Python version for every project you have.
  The installation process If you’re on a Mac and you are a homebrew user there’s a specific formulae for that.
• AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS
• Slik: A data processing and modelling Python library
• Ballerina: A Data-Oriented Programming Language
• Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick
• Android Chrome 99 expands Certificate Transparency, breaking all MitM dev tools
  Certificate transparency is superb improvement to HTTPS certificate security on the web that’s great for users and businesses, but on…
• Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
  The first open-source release of GPU kernel modules for the Linux community help improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security.
• Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
  The first open-source release of GPU kernel modules for the Linux community help improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security.
• WordPress’ market share is shrinking
• Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL
• Tokay Programming Language
• Fruits – sell digital products in less than 2 minutes
• Watermelon – open-source VSC ext. to document code and view Git blame

Quote of the week

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.

Enterprises

• Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest
  New Javacript API will «simplify the access to data for all,» developer says.
• Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support
• Amazon abruptly fires senior managers tied to unionized warehouse
• What happens if Twitter gets encrypted DMs?
• Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto Mining Speeds
• Fast bitset decoding using Intel AVX-512
• Forcing citizens through Google/Apple for online identity verification
• Twitter Circle
• Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit to expanded support for FIDO standard
  Faster, easier, and more secure sign-ins will be available to consumers across leading devices and platforms.
• NPM Vulnerability Discussion on Twitter
• Intel’s Core i9-12950HX has 16 cores and 55 watts of power
• Why I left Google: work-life balance
• Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump’s Twitter ban
• Markdoc: Stripe’s Markdown-based authoring framework
  From personal blogs to massive documentation sites, Markdoc is a content authoring system that grows with you.
• IntelliJ D Language – support for the D language within IntelliJ IDEA
• New Twitter TOS
• After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pixel 6A
• Twitter’s head of consumer product fired
• Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
• Google Online SRE Books
• ZFS Without a Server Using the Nvidia BlueField-2 DPU
• Netflix to Employees: If you don’t like our content, you can quit

Other news

• How many Linux commands can a 7 year old learn?
• ‘Rater’ is paid $10 hourly to teach Google’s algorithm
• An Excellent Woman – On Barbara Pym
• Hacking F-117A
  My investigation into mission generation in the Stealth Fighter games by Microprose. – GitHub – debugcom/Hacking-F117A: My investigation into mission generation in the Stealth Fighter games by Micr…
• No Fixed Address Bank Account
  We’re working with charities to help the homeless and customers with no fixed address open an HSBC bank account.
• Lessons learned from the recent job hunt
  A recap of the recent interview process with several companies, what I learned, and what others should know.
• The Rich New York Women Who Love Their Fake Birkins
• Scapy: Low level packet hacking toolkit for Python
• CaskDB – project to teach you building a key value store
• Kiss Linux
• Use fzf for tmux session switching
  https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0 https://youtu.be/DkJ9rb85LC0 Quickly getting between tmux splits is critical skill for productivity. You Quickly getting between t
• Boston University Undergraduate Costs Reach $80k
• Hacks for Engineering Estimates
• NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
  Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotia
• 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting: Staff of Quanta Magazine
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• Yahoo Japan’s password-free authentication reduced inquiries, sped up sign-in
• FAA Changes Course on EVTOL Certification
• Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techies Feel Underpaid
• Nvidia Linux Open GPU Kernel Module Source
• Better.com Founder/CEO Personally Liable for $750M SoftBank Loan
• Linux Insides Book

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