hannes

Parallel Python within the same process or hacking around the cursed GIL with a hand-rolled library loader

From its obscure beginnings in Amsterdam, the Python programming language has become a fundamental building block of our digital society. It is used literally everywhere and by everyone for a mind-boggingly wide variety of tasks.

Python is also the lingua franca of Data Science, tying together tools for data loading, wrangling, analysis and AI. There is a massive ecosystem of contributed Python packages, which - for example - allows reading every obscure data format under the sun. This makes Python and its ecosystem extremely valuable for analytical data management systems: Users are likely somewhat familiar with Python due to its immense popularity and the ecosystem provides solutions for most data problems. As a result, Python is being integrated into SQL systems, typically through so-called User-Defined Functions (UDFs). For example, [Apach

slimsag

Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

yoavg

A criticism of "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Languae Models be Too Big"

Yoav Goldberg, Jan 23, 2021.

The FAccT paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Languae Models be Too Big" by Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major and Shmitchell has been the center of a controversary recently. The final version is now out, and, owing a lot to this controversary, would undoubtly become very widely read. I read an earlier draft of the paper, and I think that the new and updated final version is much improved in many ways: kudos for the authors for this upgrade. I also agree with and endorse most of the content. This is important stuff, you should read it.

However, I do find some aspects of the paper (and the resulting discourse around it and around technology) to be problematic. These weren't clear to me when initially reading the first draft several months ago, but they became very clear to me now. These points are for the most part

jph00

All of the python 3.9 standard library

For a version without the collapsible details sections (so you can search the whole thing in your browser), click here.

abc

• abc.ABC
• abc.ABCMeta

lizthegrey

default['sshd']['sshd_config']['AuthenticationMethods'] = 'publickey,keyboard-interactive:pam'
default['sshd']['sshd_config']['ChallengeResponseAuthentication'] = 'yes'
default['sshd']['sshd_config']['PasswordAuthentication'] = 'no'

tonymorris

{-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wall #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
{-# LANGUAGE PatternSynonyms #-}
{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
{-# LANGUAGE LambdaCase #-}
{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FunctionalDependencies #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
{-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-}
{-# LANGUAGE StandaloneDeriving #-}

seanjtaylor

svetlyak40wt

(ql:quickload :fset)

(defun get-dependencies (system)
  "Returns a set with all dependencies of a given system.
   System should be loaded first."
  (labels ((normalize (name)
             (etypecase name
               (string (string-downcase name))
               (symbol (normalize (symbol-name name)))
               (list

terabyte

Prologue

I wrote this answer on stackexchange, here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/12597919/

It was wrongly deleted for containing "proprietary information" years later. I think that's bullshit so I am posting it here. Come at me.

The Question

Amazon is a SOA system with 100s of services (or so says Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels). How do they handle build and release?

lanedraex

use std::net;
use std::env;

fn listen(socket: &net::UdpSocket, mut buffer: &mut [u8]) -> usize {

    let (number_of_bytes, src_addr) = socket.recv_from(&mut buffer).expect("no data received");

    println!("{:?}", number_of_bytes);
    println!("{:?}", src_addr);