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California legislators, under the influence of Effective Altruism activists, are trying to sneak through a disastrous bill for open-source AI and the technology industry generally. SB 1047 creates an unaccountable Frontier Model Division that will be staffed by EAs with police powers, and which can throw model…
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten asks the founders — Nathan, Max, Antonio — about the data structures at the heart of Zed: Rope and SumTree.
Is it OK to daisy chain UPSs? Let’s look at a few reasons this is a common question and alternative approaches that can better address the target.
Common DB schema change mistakes and how to avoid them in PostgreSQL development.
Today, we would like to present a lesser-known feature of the Linux kernel. Instead of launching a program from a file system, regardless of whether it's virtual or not, it is also possible to embed a user-space program directly into the kernel image itself and start it from there.
Learn how Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS is built to empower open source developers and deliver innovation for the next 12 years. […]
How we cut build times by 50% and shipped a solution for scale.
The risk of Lyme disease has increased due to climate change and warmer temperature. A rheumatologist offers advice on how to best avoid ticks while going outdoors.
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Using Iceberg allows us to pick the optimal "big data" compute environment for the specific requirements we have. There's no need to limit yourself to a single solution.
Disclaimer: This post is a very long collection of thoughts and problems I've had over the years, and also addresses some of the arguments I've been repeatedly told. This post expresses my opinion the has been formed over using Rust for gamedev for many thousands of hours over many years, and multiple finished games…
How we built an anonymous Zig/C++ crash reporter that doesn't require debug symbols to be shipped with the application.
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction Recently we have witnessed a burst of large-scale models with over 100 billion parameters in the opensource community. These models have demonstrated remarkable performance in both benchmark evaluation and chatbot arena. Today, we release the first 100B+ model…
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
A comprehensive look at the design of Polar, and how we enabled it to operate over distributed data.
This post explains one of the core design principle of Increase’s API, dubbed No Abstractions, which we’ve found useful as our product and company scale.
The amazingly scary xz sshd backdoor, Author: Bojan Zdrnja
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a database service designed for 11 9s of durability with in-memory performance. In this paper, we describe the architecture of MemoryDB and how we leverage open-source Redis, a popular data structure store, to build an enterprise-grade cloud database. MemoryDB offloads…
What I learned after reading 14 studies about flow state
"Type-driven development"
Ruby’s garbage collector is designed to be adaptable, scaling from short Ruby scripts to running apps that serve millions of requests per second. While it’s designed to be adaptable, it may not work optimally for every use case. For this reason, Ruby’s garbage collector supports many parameters that can be used to…
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion.
How to brand TypeScript types for norminal typing, providing an automated and easy-to-use way of making a type nominal.
To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads…
PyPy v7.3.16: release of python 2.7, 3.9, and 3.10 The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.3.16 of PyPy. This release includes security fixes from upstream CPython, and bugfixes to the garbage col
