Tech roundup 52: a journal published by a bot

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AI, bots and robots

• Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
  New research makes a molecular connection between the brain and aging — and shows that overactive neurons can shorten life span.
• An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
• ACLU to police using robots: Tell us more
  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.
• Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
  “We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company.”
• The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand
  Starring Ring doorbells, Alexa gadgets, and Blink cameras.
• SafeLife: AI Safety Environments Based on Conway’s Game of Life
• Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
  Automatically generated VC tweets.
• Interview with Facebook’s Head of AI
• Learning from Google to build a search engine
• AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
• Neurosymbolic AI Advances State of the Art on Math Word Problems
• Machine Learning Christmas Calendar
• PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library
• Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information
• AI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution

Blockchain and decentralization

• Correctness proofs of distributed systems with Isabelle
• A Guide to Distributed Teams
• A Distributed Meeting Primer

Cloud and architecture

• Amazon’s cloud unit readies more powerful data center chip – sources
• Study reveals music’s universal patterns across societies worldwide
• Unbundling AWS
  Over the past year, I have spent a lot of time digging into cloud infrastructure and technical tools as a space for investing. One of the emergent behaviors of technology trends is the accelerating advantage of being a winner, played out with network effects or scale effects (or both!). Since its mid-2000’s launch, AWS has obviously become a juggernaut, growing so quickly and throwing off so much cash that even Amazon can’t put it to work fast enough (!). Getting a new software product to market has never been as cheap or fast as it is today, despite the fact that the surface area of in-depth knowledge required to build high-performing so
• How to Build a SaaS Unicorn: The Outreach Story
• AWS DeepComposer
• Mathematicians Catch a Pattern by Figuring Out How to Avoid It
• AWS Launches Graviton2-Powered General Purpose Instances
  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 EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available – AWS News Blog
• The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale
• AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles
• Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
  Amazon CodeGuru is a machine learning service for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations.
• AWS Wavelength Deliver ultra-low latency applications for 5G devices
• AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
• Amazon RDS Proxy for AWS Lambda
• Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
  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 […]
• Cloud kitchens – commercial facilities built to produce food for delivery

Development and languages

• Project X – Like Tailwind for JavaScript
• Quadcopter Programming Part 2: Using the CMSIS Library and First Takeoff
• Why the free upgrade to Windows 10 still works
• A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
  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…
• The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found
• Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
• Tenko: A spec-compliant ES2020 JavaScript parser written in JS
• How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python
• Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding
• Metaflow, Netflix’s Python framework for data science, is now open source
• Craigslist releases new mobile app for iOS and Android
  ‎craigslist – The original online classifieds. Established 1995.

  Find jobs. Hire employees. Post your resume. Offer your skills/services.

  Buy & sell cars, trucks, boats, RVs, motorcycles, trailers, auto parts.

  Offer your services, locate contractors, find short term gigs and odd jobs.

  Buy & se…

• Say it’s 1962, you’re lucky enough to be a programmer working with an IBM 7090
  “OK SO let’s say it’s 1962 and you’re lucky enough to be a programmer working somewhere that has an IBM 7090.
  This is a top of the line transistorized revision of the IBM 709, capable of 100,000 floating point operations per second.

  But how do you code for it?”

• Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
  One library was available for only two days, but the second was live for nearly a year.
• Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime
  How to use Wasmtime in a .NET application to load and execute WebAssembly code.
• PyLucid – A Lucid Interpreter Written in Python
• Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract
• Get PostgreSQL Database Structure as a Detailed JavaScript Object
• Deep Dive into C# 9
  The proposed C# 9 features could make C# more functional and practical. Read this article to be prepared for the Inevitable Challenges.
• Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source analytics for WordPress
  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…
• Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis: 160k Pages of Medieval Manuscripts Digitized
• It’s official, WebAssembly is here to stay
• An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
• Programming FPGAs with .NET Languages
• Android’s Commitment to Kotlin
  When we announced Kotlin as a supported language for Android, there was a tremendous amount of excitement among developers. Since then, there has been a steady increase in the number of developers using Kotlin. Today, we’re proud to say nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android apps contain Kotlin code, with more and more Android developers introducing safer and more concise code using Kotlin.

Quote of the week

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.

        — Ken Thompson

Enterprises

• Twitter begins testing Reddit-style nested conversations
• It’s not a zero-sum game for Apple TV+, Netflix, and Disney+
• Adventures in Netflix
• EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google’s data collection
  EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google’s collection of data, the …
• AMD Releases Radeon ProRender 2.1
• The world needs more search engines
• EU investigates Google data collection practices
• Most Europeans Now Prefer AMD CPUs over Intel
• AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan
  Amazing scenes were witnessed on the retail launch of AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X 16 core CPU in the Japanese market.
• PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
  The following article contains quotes and links meant to inform VPN consumers concerning the ownership, affiliations, and past business practices of Kape Technologies (formerly known as Crossrider) in light of their acquisition of Private Internet Access VPN.
  I’d like to start by giving credit where it is due. Forbes did some excellent reporting which detailed the business practices of Crossrider (Kape Technologies) prior to the recent news of their acquisition of PIA. Much of that article will be used for…
• Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
  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 […]
• Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
  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 Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo
• More Teslas on the Road Meant Hours-Long Supercharger Lines over Thanksgiving
• FBI designates FaceApp as counterintelligence threat
• My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
  I couldn’t find the service I needed, so I built it for myself. And that was the start.
• Four fired workers file charges against Google
• Amazon’s on-site emergency care endangers its employees
• Amazon Launches Managed Apache Cassandra Service
  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 […]
• Announcing UltraWarm (Preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Save Up to 90%
• Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
  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 […]
• List of Fictional Microsoft Companies
• Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service
  Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service that’s powered by machine learning.
• Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
• Google has handed information related to my account to the DoJ
• Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
  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.
• Google AMP Can Go to Hell
  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 founders’ exit signals end of era at search giant
• Google halts political ads in Singapore as election looms: documents
  Google has stopped accepting political advertisements in Singapore months before…
• ‘Shockingly High’ Number of Injuries at Amazon’s Staten Island Warehouse
• Carbonite to Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.42 billion
• Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
  Amazon’s Ring started from humble roots as a smart doorbell company called «DoorBot.» Now it’s surveilling the suburbs and partnering with police.
• Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats
  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
• How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
  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…
• Awesome Google Colab and 30+ example notebooks
• The Amazon Builders’ Library
• Amazon Dodges Responsibility for Unsafe Products

Other news

• The successor of SMS has already been hacked
• Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment
• Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap
• The state of Linux graphic design tools in 2019
• What I’ve Learned over National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) 2019
• Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism
• Yocto: Tools for building a custom embedded Linux distribution
• Kali Linux Adds ‘Undercover’ Mode to Impersonate Windows 10
• Is true hacking dead? What we lost
  Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
• Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction
  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)…
• Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Reform
• FBI warns US that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes
• A Reality Check on Quantum Computers
• A woman lied on her resume to land a $185,000-a-year job. Now shes going to jail
• Journalists protest 100 days of internet gag in Kashmir
• Arcade Game Typography
  A definitive and beautifully designed survey of ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s arcade game pixel typography.
• Global warming-induced migratory bird body size reduction and shape change
• Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
  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 – 7 simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn
  🤖 NanoNeuron is 7 simple JavaScript functions that will give you a feeling of how machines can actually «learn» – trekhleb/nano-neuron
• British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest
  Audrey Schoeman fell unconscious when she was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in Spain.

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