AWS introducing Service Quotas – View and manage your quotas and limits

AWS introducing Service Quotas – View and manage your quotas and limits

Service Quotas is a central way to find and manage service quotas, an easier way to request and track quota increases, and a simplified way to request quota increases for new accounts created in AWS Organizations. To learn about Lambda quotas, Emma visits Service Quotas, navigates to the AWS Lambda page where she can view information about all the quotas for the service. Service Quotas enables you to easily raise and track quota increase requests, and integrates with AWS Organizations to save you time and effort in setting up quotas for new accounts in a consistent manner.

Source: aws.amazon.com

The Secret of Good Electron Apps

The Secret of Good Electron Apps

If you use Visual Studio Code, you might be used to good integration of developer tools with a backend node server. While you could run the server separately yourself and tell Electron to connect to a process owned by VS Code, I find it much simpler to reuse Electron’s developer tools which are already there. This article focused on the tech benefits of using a backend server and developing a 100% local app, but it doesn’t even go into other benefits like being available regardless of network connection.

Source: jlongster.com

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator

On behalf of the entire Microsoft Flight Simulator team, we humbly and deeply express our gratitude for such an overwhelmingly positive response to our announce trailer! We hear you, we value you, we want to make the next generation of Microsoft Flight Simulator for you, with you. While this is not the moment to answer every question being asked, we do want to take the opportunity to answer a few important ones:

Over the next few months, we will be communicating our plans for the rest of the year, including important updates to the Preview Build/Insider Programs, and important development beats.

Source: fsi.microsoftstudios.com

The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive

The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive

In the two years since her son’s death, Smith-Holt has fought alongside diabetes patients and their allies to make insulin the public face of the drug-pricing crisis. That included a pharmaceutical company in Indianapolis called Eli Lilly and Company, which had expressed interest in manufacturing insulin for humans as soon as they caught wind of the Toronto team’s research. Moreover, there was reason to believe the Department of Justice was prepared to intervene on behalf of exploited diabetes patients, after leveling small antitrust violation fines in 1941 to three players in Lilly’s insulin supply chain.

Source: prospect.org

A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)

A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop (2014)

Laptops do in fact allow students to do more, like engage in online activities and demonstrations, collaborate more easily on papers and projects, access information from the internet, and take more notes. Across three experiments, Mueller and Oppenheimer had students take notes in a classroom setting and then tested students on their memory for factual detail, their conceptual understanding of the material, and their ability to synthesize and generalize the information. Content analysis of the notes consistently showed that students who used laptops had more verbatim transcription of the lecture material than those who wrote notes by hand.

Source: www.scientificamerican.com

G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis

G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis

The figures, published in a report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and others, show that Japan is one of the biggest financial supporters of coal, despite the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, having said in September: “Climate change can be life-threatening to all generations … We must take more robust actions and reduce the use of fossil fuels.” “It has now been 10 years since the G20 committed to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, yet astonishingly some governments are actually increasing the amount they give to coal power plants,” said Ipek Gençsü, research fellow at ODI and lead author of the report. Han Chen, energy policy manager at the Natural Resources Defense Council and co-author of the report, said: “Other governments may struggle to take Japan’s rhetoric on climate change seriously, as this year’s G20 host government continues to pour billions of dollars into propping up coal.

Source: www.theguardian.com

Glass discs that can store 360TB and keep data intact for billions of years

Glass discs that can store 360TB and keep data intact for billions of years

Eternal Data
Researchers at the University of Southampton have showcased their new nanostructured glass discs that have the ability to store digital data for billions of years. The university announced that they’ve managed to build a device that can store huge amounts of data on small glass discs using laser writing. Each one of these glass storage discs can hold a whopping 360 terabytes of data, which is remarkable.

Source: www.disclose.tv

Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias

Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias

Although the sample size is not the only indicator of the quality of a study, it is an extremely important one, as psychological science reformers Fraley & Vazire described in this paper:

“But if an overwhelming proportion of published research findings are not

replicable simply due to power issues (i.e., problems that are under

the direct control of researchers and the editorial standards of the

journals in which they publish) rather than the uncertainty

inherent in human behavior, then people have little reason to take

psychological science seriously. Lloyd (1990) had an N=126, found bias favoring women, and is only cited 85 times (although this is one of the few cases where this study actually has a lower N than the bias favoring men study). Last, let’s consider the two older studies examining real outcomes:

Wenneras & Wold (1997) found bias favoring men, has a sample size of 114, and has been cited 1544 times.

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Ravelry, a Popular Knitting Site, Bans Pro-Trump Content

Ravelry, a Popular Knitting Site, Bans Pro-Trump Content

But on Sunday, Ravelry, a popular website for knitters and crocheters, took a political stand when it announced that it was banning content that supports President Trump, in what it said was a resolution against white supremacy. “Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy.” The policy applies to content on the site, including knitting patterns and forum posts, but not to people, according to Ravelry, which said it still welcomed Republicans and those with conservative political views.

Source: www.nytimes.com