The Daily Index — Tuesday, July 23, 2024 · TLDR Index

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RUNNING POSTGRES FOR YOURSELF AND FOR OTHERS

Running PostgreSQL for others requires additional steps compared to running it for yourself, such as installing extensions, creating server certificates, configuring settings, and creating DNS records. Faster provisioning happens thanks to optimizations like using a baked OS image, parallelizing steps, and creating a pool of pre-provisioned databases. High Availability involves provisioning primary and standby databases, regular health checks, and ensuring proper fencing of the primary in case of failure.

ubicloud.com · 8 min

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COUNTING BYTES FASTER THAN YOU'D THINK POSSIBLE

This author participated in a coding challenge to count the occurrences of a specific byte in a large stream of data and found that interleaving the processing of successive 4K pages significantly improved the performance by utilizing the Streamer prefetcher in the Intel processor.

blog.mattstuchlik.com · 6 min

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COPYING IS THE WAY DESIGN WORKS

Copying is a fundamental aspect of design, as shown by the Eames chair, Steve Jobs' Apple products, and John Carmack's video games. Copying can be a way to learn, a challenge to overcome, or a source of new ideas. Some people have used copying to improve themselves, build community, or subvert authority, while others have struggled against it.

matthewstrom.com · 24 min

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DEAR AWS, PLEASE LET ME BE A CLOUD ENGINEER AGAIN

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lucvandonkersgoed.com · 4 min

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ASK HN: IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE FAANG SALARIES WITHOUT WORKING THERE? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

There are FAANG-level salaries available in finance, trading, crypto, and high-growth startups.

news.ycombinator.com

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1-BIT LLMS COULD SOLVE AI'S ENERGY DEMANDS

LLMs demand a lot of energy, but researchers are finding ways to reduce their size by quantization - representing model parameters with only 1 or -1. The two main approaches are post-training quantization (PTQ) and quantization-aware training (QAT). PTQ is currently more popular. Despite lower perplexity scores, 1-bit LLMs are much more energy efficient and faster on customized chips.

spectrum.ieee.org · 3 min

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THE ELEGANCE OF THE ASCII TABLE

ASCII is a standard for representing characters with 7-bit binary values. It is the most popular character encoding format. ASCII uses a well-organized table with control codes, space, numbers, shifted numbers, and letters that all follow logical patterns. The table's design is aesthetically pleasing and reflects a hidden history of computing, with historical artifacts like the DEL character and the placement of the space character showcasing consideration for sorting and readability.

danq.me · 7 min

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STUDY FINDS 268% HIGHER FAILURE RATES FOR AGILE SOFTWARE PROJECTS

Software projects that adopt Agile practices are 268 percent more likely to fail than those that do not.

theregister.com · 3 min

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WIZ WALKS AWAY FROM $23 BILLION DEAL WITH GOOGLE, WILL PURSUE IPO

Wiz, a cloud security startup, has abandoned a $23 billion acquisition deal with Google due to antitrust and investor concerns, and will instead pursue an IPO as it tries to reach $1B in annual recurring revenue.

cnbc.com · 3 min

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WHAT DID THE IGNORE BUTTON DO IN WINDOWS 3.1 WHEN AN APPLICATION ENCOUNTERED A GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT?

The Ignore button in Windows 3.1 attempted to recover a crashed application by skipping the instruction that caused the general protection fault and resuming execution.

devblogs.microsoft.com · 3 min

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GOOGLE URL SHORTENER LINKS WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE

Google URL Shortener will stop serving goo.gl links on August 25, 2025 - an interstitial page will start appearing for some links on August 23, 2024.

developers.googleblog.com · 2 min