Gooooooood morning, You all!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- The AI Index 2019 Report
- Jeff Dean interview: Machine learning trends in 2020
- Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
Humans usually take minutes to learn how to find diamonds in the game, but AI agents struggled. - Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering
- Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering
- Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Your Phone
Interpreter Mode comes to iOS and Android, making it easier to converse somewhat seamlessly across language barriers - AI expert calls for end to UK use of ‘racially biased’ algorithms
- BMW shares AI tools used in production
BMW has been implementing next-level production processes throughout its plants around the world for quite some time now. From robots carrying parts - I’m building a robot that performs haircuts
- Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon
- Keeping Top AI Talent in the United States
- The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language
- Lipid metabolic pathways converge in motor neuron degenerative diseases
- Simulated data: the great equalizer in the AI race?
- At Mayo Clinic, AI engineers face an ‘acid test’
- Bot Submissions to Comment Website Can’t Be Distinguished from Human Submissions
Blockchain and decentralization
- Bitcoin.com Lists Ponzi Token, Hex, to the Dismay of Bitcoin Fans
The Bitcoin.com exchange listed HEX, a controversial token with many signs of being a Ponzi scheme. Bitcoin Cash fans reacted negatively. - Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray distributed computing project, launches
Woman computer scientist of the week
Gillian Lovegrove is a retired computer scientist and academic. She was Dean of the School of Informatics at Northumbria University, president of the Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing and was Higher Education consultant to the British Computer Society and manager of its Education and Training Forum. She is known for her interest in gender imbalance in computer education and employment, and her public discussion of possible solutions to a shortage of information technology graduates in the UK.
Cloud and architecture
- The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019
- AWS Re:Invent Presentations
- Revenue Contribution, Margin Analysis and Growth Rates of SaaS Companies
- Russia blocks Premier League broadcasts by Amazon’s Twitch over lawsuit
- How clouds impact environment
We are generating astounding amounts of data. Estimates show that the amount of data worldwide will increase by 60% per year, reaching 175 zettabytes by 2025, up from 33 in 2018. Roughly half of it will be stored in public clouds and the rest in other types of data centers. - 2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure
- Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
The clock is ticking for Google Cloud.The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoftâcurrently first and second, respectively, in cloud market shareâor risk losing funding. While the company has invested heavily … - BeyondProd: Google’s Cloud Native Security
- Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing
- Create Your Next SaaS App NOT from scratch with Python and ReactJS
- Red Hat Cloud Forms migrating to IBM Cloud Pak
- Multipass 1.0 – A mini-cloud on your Mac or Windows workstation
- Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices
Development and languages
- Global Constraint Catalog – A Dictionary for Constraint Programming
- Challenging projects every programmer should try
- A tiny Python exception oddity
- Reaper: Digital Audio Workstation
- Donald Knuth Reflects on 50 Years of ‘The Art of Computer Programming‘
- Google to stop giving Android license for upcoming phones in Turkey over fine
- WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
- Things every programmer should know
- Writing JavaScript with Only Six Characters
- Thoughts on Forth Programming
- Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown
- Pythonic News – HN Clone
- JavaScript Adaption of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Make CPython segfault in 5 lines of code
- No Code CI for Android
- State of JavaScript 2019
- Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
In October 2019, my company SP Digital held an internal hackathon. My colleague Subhransu and I worked on a whacky idea of writing a brand-new Windows 3.1 app which was an OS released almost 30 years ago. The idea we chose was a Slack client. After all, Slack clients exist for most platforms but I’m - Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL. - How to Make Python Wait
- GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool
Free developer conferences for everyone - Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android
- JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful
- The Fundamental Problem in Python 3
- A guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python
- Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages
- Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did to Us
We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged. - Use GitHub actions at your own risk
Malicious code can be inserted into any GitHub action, even those which are tagged. - Visual Studio Code repository is open again
Quote of the week
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
— Dennis Ritchie
Enterprises
- Tuv sees black for Tesla: Cybertruck would not get approval in Europe
- FBI breaks up 2 illegal streaming sites with more subscribers than Netflix
- Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments
- Amazon is now delivering half its own packages, rivaling FedEx and UPS
- Bloomberg fined $5.6M for publishing fake press release
Bloomberg LP was fined 5 million euros ($5.6 million) in France following the publication of information from what turned out to be a fake press release that made Vinci SA shares tumble three years ago. - France’s AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
- Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
“I was doing nothing more than notifying my co-workers about Google’s obligations under labor law,” Kathryn Spiers, the former Google engineer, said. - Is Twitter Down in Europe?
- You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
Dumpster divers say it’s easy to list discarded toys, electronics and books on the retailer’s platform, where just about anyone can set up shop. So we decided to try. - Dave Clark, The Man Who Built Amazon’s Delivery Machine
- Reject Google Nest or Amazon Ring Corp Surveillance and a Dystopic Future
- The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained
- Google claims copyright on employee side projects
“Since we’re talking about Google being less than nice towards its workers, here’s a fun little story from my days there. There were two things that I really didn’t like about Google at the time: The Google+ saga (realnames et al), and the IP ownership policy.” - Google’s Dangerous Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about Google’s exceptionally dangerous decision yesterday to de facto cut off Turkey’s access to Android phones. - Google’s Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy
- Apple, Amazon, Google, Zigbee to Develop Open Standard for Smart Home Devices
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote a new connectivity standard. - Labor board rolls back employee email rights after Google recommendation
- A Tesla Valve
- The Amazon Premium
- Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the IPO Fizzle
- Google Reader Killed RSS
- Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK
- Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey
The tech giant’s services were among those temporarily unavailable in eastern Europe on Thursday. - SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon’s Internet-Beaming Satellites
- Real-Time music recommendations for new users with Amazon SageMaker
- Developer gets offended by Santa emoticon, Microsoft replaces with snowflake
- Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
Alternative Twitter front-end. Contribute to zedeus/nitter development by creating an account on GitHub.
Other news
- What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
Slack, one of Silicon Valley’s more diverse companies, has hired three formerly incarcerated coders. - Crux as General-Purpose Database
- Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness
- Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop
- What I Learned about Style and Writing from Watching Bruce Lee
- Clever crows have learnt how to make a meal of cane toads
- Linux Toolbox
- Dissecting Linux Kernel Code
- Supremacy is for racists – use ‘quantum advantage’
- Today is Esperanto Book Day – here’s why I learned it
- Quadriga: Lawyers for users of bankrupt crypto firm seek exhumation of founder
Lawyers for Quadriga users say there are «questionable circumstances» behind Gerald Cotten’s death. - Inexact Models Can Guide Decision Making in Quantitative Systems Pharmacology
- JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
- Build APKs on Android devices with Termux
- Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2019
- N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack
- Visa warns that hackers are scraping card details from gas pumps
Visa warns of malware at gas pumps that could scrape your credit card data. - Lisp Macros by Example
- Hacking GitHub’s Auth with Unicode’s Turkish Dotless ‘I’
From combining emoji marks and astral planes, Unicode is under appreciated and poorly understood. One lesser known attack vector is Unicode Case Mapping Collisions— an edge case that many of the best devs don’t understand— even at Github. - Linux 4.6 introduced unpriviledged user namespaces
- Ransomware Gangs Now Outing Victim Businesses That Don’t Pay Up
- What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out
- Hackers ‘looking to weaponize Facebook Ad Manager’ via trojan in PDF reader
- LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians
- University Issues Passwords by Hand to 38K Students and Staff After Cyber Attack
- SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness
- German university issues 38k passwords by hand after malware infection
- Teachers Pay High Fees for Retirement Funds. Unions Are Partly to Blame
- The Fed Will Lend $2.93T to Wall Street Banks over the Next Month
- Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers
Thirty years ago, Cliff Stoll published The Cuckoo’s Egg, a book about his cat-and-mouse game with a KGB-sponsored hacker. Today, the internet is a far darker place—and Stoll has become a cybersecurity icon. - Tars: Tencent’s microservice RPC framework, open-sourced to Linux Foundation
- Quantum Dominance, Hegemony, and Superiority
- Teaching College-Level Mathematics in Prisons
- University Drops ‘Freedom of Thought’ from Charter
- Anki, Jibo, and Kuri: What We Can Learn from Social Robots That Didn’t Make It
- SmugMug emails subscribers with request to find more paying users
- On Linux’s Random Number Generation
- Study may explain how infections reduce autism symptoms
An immune molecule sometimes produced during infection can influence the social behavior of mice. - ‘Spiderman’ Hacker Daniel Kaye Took Down Liberia’s Internet
- What if debit cards could pay for purchases by selling securities?
- Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam’s Proton initiative
“@waxpancake @GoogleAI The BYU PCCL lab I’m apart of is covering it now. But it’s at 10k+ per day now so they can’t sustain that more than a couple days”
Reviewing the best-of-the-year in ML and DL research
Learning at work is work, and we can make it easier.
As part of the fastMRI research project to use AI to speed up MRI scans, NYU Langone Health is making a new data set of de-identified brain MRIs available to researchers and Facebook AI is sharing additional tools and resources.
List of «only yours» cloud services for everyday needs :black_flag: – Atarity/deploy-your-own-saas
If you’ve read yesterdays post about ZEIT Now, you’ve already seen one of many approaches to develop and deploy a serverless API. In this post we will have a look at an alternative you can use to develop serverless applications, namely Serverless Framework. Serverless Framework can be used to develop, deploy and test your serverless applications targeted towards different cloud providers, or as they describe themselves: «The complete solution for building & operating serverless applications.» Let’s have a look on what this framework is all about.
Tiny, yet powerful, native macOS app for Stripe notifications in your menu bar. See how much you’ve earned today. Minimalistic interface, multiple accounts support.
Alex got lazy about using the inspector to download Instagram pics, so he searched on Google for a solution. The results were crappy but their traffic was high… So he purchased a domain and decided to build the tool himself. Since then, Ninja Copy has grown into a SaaS that’s making $12k per month.
By helping others help you, you’re setting yourself up for less friction.
Full exploit chain (CVE-2019-11708 & CVE-2019-9810) against Firefox on Windows 64-bit. – 0vercl0k/CVE-2019-11708
I recently hit some multi-minute delays on my workstation. After investigating I found that the problem was due to a lock being held for five minutes, and during that time the lock-holder was mostl…
A Telegram Mass Surveillance Bot in Python. Contribute to paulpierre/informer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Sundar Pichai’s appointment as CEO of Google parent Alphabet effectively shifts the focus back on the company’s advertising profit machine and away from its “moonshots” and other potential new businesses.
I use ad data to try to save their lives
The National Labor Relations Board has officially begun a fresh investigation into Google’s labor practices after «Thanksgiving Four» file federal complaint.
“Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. ?”
A technical look at dynamic resource management behind E2 VM machine types
Intel’s process technology roadmap reveals decade-out plans, including a future 10nm+++ node and even a 1.4nm node heading into 2029.
Feds tell Google to search four areas for suspected arsonists’ phones. Google gives it 1,500 device IDs.
The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.
In this post I’m going to show you a simple way to significantly speedup Python numpy compute performance on AMD CPU’s when using Anaconda Python.
Does anyone remember a few years ago, when the mayor of New York decided to learn to program? It was a heady time, because it wasn’t just him. I remember these surreal commercials where Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh was encouraging children to learn to code for the good of humanity or something. There was […]
For the first time, U.S. manufacturing workers with college degrees will soon outnumber those without. It’s part of a shift to automation that has increased factory output, opened opportunities for women and reduced prospects for the nation’s lowest-skilled workers.
Our ambitious goal is to educate 1% of European citizens in the basics of AI by 2021. The Elements of AI is a movement – sign up now to learn more!
Stealing towels from a hotel is one thing, but taking the mattress is going way too far.
In the NulledCast hackers livestream the harassment of Ring camera owners after accessing their devices. Hundreds of people can listen.
How can you save money on running your HTTP(S) API on Amazon Web Services (AWS)? In this post, our Backend team answers exactly this.
New research makes a molecular connection between the brain and aging â and shows that overactive neurons can shorten life span.
Police are using robot dogs. Everyone seems interested but not everyone seems amused. The American Civil Liberties Union has asked Massachusetts State Police to explain how and where it is using robot dogs, said news reports.
“We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company.”
Starring Ring doorbells, Alexa gadgets, and Blink cameras.
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors (OSV) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) communities have been quick to […]
Amazon CodeGuru is a machine learning service for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations.
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors (OSV) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) communities have been quick to […]
A year ago today I self-published “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” (PIM). In this short note I want to describe the success it’s had, summarize the complaints of…
craigslist – The original online classifieds. Established 1995.
“OK SO let’s say it’s 1962 and you’re lucky enough to be a programmer working somewhere that has an IBM 7090.
One library was available for only two days, but the second was live for nearly a year.
How to use Wasmtime in a .NET application to load and execute WebAssembly code.
The proposed C# 9 features could make C# more functional and practical. Read this article to be prepared for the Inevitable Challenges.
An open-source analytics plugin for WordPress that does not use any external services and respects your visitors’ privacy. View on WordPress.org Contribute on GitHub You can view a demo of Koko…
EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google’s collection of data, the …
Amazing scenes were witnessed on the retail launch of AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X 16 core CPU in the Japanese market.
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: – A fully managed service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to […]
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: – A fully managed service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to […]
I couldn’t find the service I needed, so I built it for myself. And that was the start.
Managing databases at scale is never easy. One of the options to store, retrieve, and manage large amounts of structured data, including key-value and tabular formats, is Apache Cassandra. With Cassandra, you can use the expressive Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to build applications quickly. However, managing large Cassandra clusters can be difficult and takes a lot of […]
Today, we’re extremely happy to launch Amazon SageMaker Autopilot to automatically create the best classification and regression machine learning models, while allowing full control and visibility. In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine learning as the ability for computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. In practice, this means finding an algorithm than can extract patterns […]
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service that’s powered by machine learning.
Duolingo, the language-learning app, raises a new investment round led by Google parent Alphabet’s CapitalG and becomes the first Pittsburgh tech start-up valued at more than $1 billion by venture capital investors.
The latest AMP messages in Google Search Console are intended to enforce full equivalency in AMP versions. The underlying message is clear. And so is my response.
Google has stopped accepting political advertisements in Singapore months before…
Amazon’s Ring started from humble roots as a smart doorbell company called «DoorBot.» Now it’s surveilling the suburbs and partnering with police.
The aim is to bring the system “into the 21st century” by imposing a 3% levy on tech giants such as Amazon, but first a government must be formed
There’s a popular thread on Hacker News with lots of people complaining about how Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is ruining their mobile web experience. This week I also got two AMP links sent…
While it would have been completely unthinkable for Mike and Carol Brady to light up a joint or get rip-roaring drunk on screen, the very first episode of the first season of The Brady Bunch (1969)…
A definitive and beautifully designed survey of ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s arcade game pixel typography.
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… A few days ago, Ian MacDougall came out with a New York Times/ProPublica piece on how consulting giant McKinsey structured Trump immigration policy. Lots of people cover immigration. I’m going to discuss why the government buys overpriced services from McKinsey. (Spoiler: It goes back to, of course, Bill Clinton.)
? NanoNeuron is 7 simple JavaScript functions that will give you a feeling of how machines can actually «learn» – trekhleb/nano-neuron
Audrey Schoeman fell unconscious when she was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in Spain.
Important academic discussions around the ‘intelligence’ in AI are emerging. They help level set the reality of what’s possible now and into the future. Here’s your guide as to what is real and what’s imagined.
Massachusetts State Police is the first law enforcement agency in the country to use Boston Dynamics’ dog-like robot, called Spot. That’s raising questions from civil rights advocates about how much oversight there should be over police robotics programs.
Let’s figure out what digit is shown in an encrypted image without ever decrypting it.
The lottery ticket hypothesis suggests that by training DNNs from “lucky” initializations, we can train networks which are 10-100x smaller with minimal performance losses. In new work, we extend our understanding of this phenomenon in several ways.
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Yonhap) — South Korean Go master Lee Se-dol, who retired from professiona…
Most of us last saw calculus in school, but derivatives are a critical part of machine learning, particularly deep neural networks, which are trained by optimizing a loss function. This article is an attempt to explain all the matrix calculus you need in order to understand the training of deep neural networks. We assume no math knowledge beyond what you learned in calculus 1, and provide links to help you refresh the necessary math where needed.
CDs and DVDs were sold to consumers as these virtually indestructible platters, but the truth, as exemplified by the “disc rot” phenomenon, is more complicated.
Reusable JavaScript library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn styled charts in the browser. – jwilber/roughViz
LEGO has today announced its acquisition of BrickLink . Read the full press release and our interview on this subject with Julia Goldin, Global Chief Marketing Officer at The LEGO Group, here:
Accounts inactive for more than six months will be deleted – including those of people who have died.
“I love @DuckDuckGo. My default search engine for a while now. The app is even better!”
Twitter apologises and admits a «miss on our part» when announcing it would start deleting inactive accounts.
I would be curious if Tensorflow 2.0 works with AMD Radeon VII? Also, if it is available, are there any benchmark comparison with 2080Ti on some standard network to see if we should invest in Radeo…
ANCAP chief James Goodwin says angular design and steel construction of Tesla Cybertruck electric ute may pose safety risks to other road users such as pedestrians.
Three months ago, I quit my job at Google to start my own company. This past week, I decided that I wanted to get a feel for how much it…
Nov 22, 2019. Velika Plana, Serbia. A shooting in Serbian high school saw a PE teacher confront and disarm a person carrying AK47, hand grenades and explosives, allowing the students to escape. Wit…
The long read: A GP has minutes to try to convince a person that life is worth living. No wonder they always wonder what more they could have done
How did Ruja Ignatova make $4bn selling her fake cryptocurrency to the world – and where did she go?
Stanford University 2017-20
A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.
Many elementary school teachers are anxious about teaching math, and studies show their students learn less from them. Math should be taught by specialists starting in kindergarten.
Despite no evidence of criminal intent, Coalfire employees face charges of criminal trespass.
The legend of the twenty-something business wunderkind is everywhere in pop culture. Here’s the problem. The data are in. It turns out that the whole thing is a gigantic myth.
Have you ever wondered if you’d be replaced by AI in the near future? I know I have. What if a bot could learn all about my style of writing and create a post of its own for this blog? Well, …
No one likes an office whistler or pen clicker – but for some people, these noises aren’t just a nuisance, they’re a full-blown aural assault. Why?
Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. to witness the achievement of what could represent a giant leap forward in the effort to decarbonize some of the world’s most carbon intensive industries. For Bill Gross, the founder of…
Build a WhatsApp chatbot with Twilio, Python and the Flask framework
Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG
Can AI teach itself the laws of physics? Will classical computers soon be replaced by deep neural networks? Sure looks like it, if…
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., Onward! ’19 Watch out! If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesti…
Google quietly revealed this week that it will kill Cloud Print, a cloud-based printing solution that never exited beta.
Algebraic data types and algebraic data structures sound similar. It’s like they ought to be the same thing. But they’re not. They both have ‘algebraic’ in the name, so it’s confusing. I got them mixed up at times. Others have too. But, they’re different concepts. Understanding the difference will help if you’re trying to learn functional programming.
Information about the Intel® Computing Improvement Program
Few companies have more riding on proposed privacy legislation than Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. To try to steer the bill their way, the giant advertising technology companies spend millions of dollars to lobby each year, a fact confirmed by government filings.
Privacy groups this week began pushing regulators to block the Fitbit acquisition, which the company originally hoped to close in early 2020.
La Repubblica has had access to the video and audio recordings of the Spanish company, UC Global, which spied on the WikiLeaks founder, his team of journalists
PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4 billion, mostly cash. The acquisition, which is PayPal’s largest to date, will give the payments giant a foothold earlier in the customer’…
Google is extending a ban on campaigns targeting ads at people based on their political leanings.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is responsible for the most value creating corporate transformation of the 21st century due to sweeping cultural and strategic changes at a company regulators once tried to break-up.
A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file – Gabriel439/simple-twitter
“We’ve updated how you can use two-factor authentication, allowing you to enable it with or without a phone number. Here’s how to add extra security to your account using an authorization app, physical security key, or SMS text message: https://t.co/8sTklAnKPY https://t.co/2ewsJRhUZe”
Cybertruck is designed to have the utility of a truck with sports car performance. Built to be durable, versatile, capable and high-performance both on-road and off-road.
Google has killed over 150 products since 2006. The average lifespan of a Google product is 4 years and 1 month.
Microsoft REST API Guidelines. Contribute to microsoft/api-guidelines development by creating an account on GitHub.
A small course on exploiting and defending neural networks – Kayzaks/HackingNeuralNetworks
A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive, discovers David Robson. How do they do it?
The number and quality of studies showing that air pollution has very substantial effects on health continues to increase. Patrick Collison reviews some of the most recent studies on air pollution and cognition. I’m going to post the whole thing so everything that follows is Patrick’s. —- Air pollution is a very big deal. Its …
“RELEASE: Sherwood – Copies of the servers of Cayman National Bank and Trust (CNBT), which has allegedly been used for money laundering by Russian oligarchs and others.
Americans are as polarized as they’ve ever been. Could the problem be that we’re caring for each other too much?
In this interview, Thomas Guenoux, the founder of CommitStrip, explains the creation process behind the strip and what makes developers laugh.
?? Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws – dwmkerr/hacker-laws
? API request builder – A free, fast, and beautiful alternative to Postman https://postwoman.io ? – liyasthomas/postwoman
Collection of notebooks about quantitative finance, with interactive python code. – cantaro86/Financial-Models-Numerical-Methods
TESLA PowerWall 2 Security Shenanigans . Contribute to hackerschoice/thc-tesla-powerwall2-hack development by creating an account on GitHub.
Another year, another predicted new-car reliability ranking from non-profit consumer products researchers at Consumer Reports. And this year, the domestic automakers aren’t looking so good, taking up 11 of the bottom 12 spots. Here’s a look at reliability rankings for all the brands.
A probe into Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s credit card practices has been initi…
Test your HN title against a neural network. Contribute to victorqribeiro/hntitlenator development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bayes’ Theorem is about more than just conditional probability, and Naive Bayes is a flavor of the theorem which adds to its complexity and usefulness.
This article discusses GPT-2 and BERT models, as well using knowledge distillation to create highly accurate models with fewer parameters than their teachers
With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the worldâs leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.
New branding guidelines also regulate the word ‘partner’ and reveals security soft spot.
LuaJIT 2.0 bytecode parser, viewer, assembler and test VM – rochus-keller/LjTools
Lin Clark introduces the Bytecode Alliance, and uses Code Cartoon illustrations to share their vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations. …
Jupyter Notebooks has been the significant player in the interactive development space for many years, and Notebooks …
The GitHub Archive Program will safely store every public GitHub repo for 1,000 years in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway.
Get modern messaging features in the US with RCS in the Messages app
Google has begun testing their upcoming extension manifest V3 in the the latest Chrome Canary build, and with this initial ‘alpha’ release, developers can begin testing their extensions under the upcoming specification.
Google is teaming with one of the country’s largest health-care systems on an ambitious project named “Project Nightingale” to collect and crunch detailed health information of millions of Americans across 21 states.
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…
Elon Musk said Tuesday during an awards ceremony in Germany that Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in the Berlin area. Musk was on stage to receive a Golden Steering Wheel Award given by BILD. “There’s not enough time tonight to tell all the details,” Musk said duri…
Google will soon offer checking accounts to consumers, becoming the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to push into finance.
Mirantis today announced that it has acquired Docker’s Enterprise business and team. Docker Enterprise was very much the heart of Docker’s product lineup, so this sale leaves Docker as a shell of its former, high-flying unicorn self. Docker itself, which installed a new CEO earlier this…
Starting this week, I’m moving to a «Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.
The company said it is scaling back the frequency of it’s all-hands meetings, amid growing workplace issues and leaks.
Iâm Ryan Scherf, the founder of payment.co (@payment), an app built on top of the Stripe payment gateway for creating card-present charges. Payment is available on iOS and Android, and allows customers who have created online stores to easily collect payments in person, in the same acco…
The two tech giants have been feuding for nearly a decade.
Advertisement needs to end. It is insane to think that a piece of software, so fundamental to running computers, an operating system is selling user behavior to advertisers.
So far, no cure has been found for Parkinson’s. It is only possible to treat the symptoms. But a nurse in Scotland can smell the disease before it is diagnosed, and researchers are hoping she can help on the search for a breakthrough.
Pocket P.C. is your hacker terminal on-the-go. It is a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life.
Pornhub said it’s ‘devastated’ by PayPal’s decision to stop payouts to models on its platform.