Alpine 3.10 Released

Alpine 3.10 Released

Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports, and to everyone helping with writing documentation, maintaining the infrastructure, or has contributed in any other way! Thanks to GIGABYTE, Linode, Fastly, IBM, Packet, vpsFree and RapidSwitch for providing us with hardware and hosting. The full list of changes can be found in the git log and bug tracker.

Source: alpinelinux.org

Thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com – Semi-Convincing Blog Written by Grover AI

Thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com – Semi-Convincing Blog Written by Grover AI

The artist created the trailer for Fredo Santana’s surprise Billboard Top 30 record release, Cobra Snake, using Postcard as well as Prism, Smile, Rose Mist and Champagne. Her other favorite filters are Meta, Veil and Rose Mist. Freeborn’s picks include Finder (a blue stripe that makes her account look like an older block of pixels), Plus and Cartwheel (which she says makes your picture look like a topographical map of a town).

Source: thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com

Ask HN: I want to get a Bachelor’s in CS online. What are some good programs?

Ask HN: I want to get a Bachelor’s in CS online. What are some good programs?

I’m trying to find a good online program to get Bachelor’s degree in CS, my goal is to switch careers and get into AI and Machine Learning. I will also likely need the degree to apply for the AI/ML Master’s program(OMSCS). I’m a self-taught programmer(web developer), I have a bachelor’s degree in a field unrelated to tech.

Source: news.ycombinator.com

RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

Not so for the folks at Note Printing Australia, who were “mortified” according to an email from deputy head of the RBA note issue department James Holloway on December 21 last year. Because the human brain speed reads, according to Note Printing Australia’s report, marked “confidential”. “It appears somebody couldn’t resist the urge to publicly announce the error with the NGB$50 micro text error – by ringing radio station Triple M in Melbourne this morning,” said an email from Note Printing Australia to the RBA that day.

Source: www.watoday.com.au

Scaleway’s data centre in the catacombs, 26 metres under Paris

Scaleway’s data centre in the catacombs, 26 metres under Paris

Microsoft sinks another data centre with Natick 2

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A representative from Scaleway pointed out that the bunker was relatively close to the catacombs of Paris, so an enthusiast armed with time and tunnelling gear could, in theory, gain access. A spokesperson for Scaleway told us that heat from the data centre (known as DC4) was used to warm 150 apartments in the Paris Habitat, a housing estate in the city’s 15th arrondissement, including 50 per cent of hot water needs of lucky residents. Another Scaleway data centre in France, DC5, had its own brush with excess heat earlier in the month as a fire at a nearby company, responsible for processing industrial waste, came a little too close to for comfort.

Source: www.theregister.co.uk

America has never gone this long without hiking the federal minimum wage

America has never gone this long without hiking the federal minimum wage

Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said he and President Trump have not discussed the administration’s position on raising the federal minimum wage. The “effective” minimum wage — the average wage being paid to all minimum wage workers — has surged to $12 an hour, largely due to state and local governments’ hikes, according to a report in the New York Times by an economist who served in the Treasury Department under President Barack Obama. In November 2018, White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow called the federal minimum wage a “terrible idea” and “silly,” arguing it hurts small businesses by increasing their costs.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Ask HN: I want to get Bachelor’s in CS online. What are some good programs?

Ask HN: I want to get Bachelor’s in CS online. What are some good programs?

I’m trying to find a good online program to get Bachelor’s degree in CS, my goal is to switch careers and get into AI and Machine Learning. I will also likely need the degree to apply into the AI/ML Master’s program(OMSCS). I want to master the fundamentals of Computer Science, and all the math I need to be ready for an AI/ML Master’s program (and for studying ML on my own).

Source: news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Best free compute, etc. resources for startups?

Ask HN: Best free compute, etc. resources for startups?

Ask HN: Best free compute, etc. resources for startups? I’m interested in pursuing a few new concepts, and I’m looking for the best free resources for startups that aren’t going through an incubator. Specifically looking for free tier or startup credits beyond what AWS / DO / GCP has to offer, or for off-the-beaten-path programs that single-founder startups might be able to take advantage of.

Source: news.ycombinator.com

Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford 2-Bedroom Home

Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford 2-Bedroom Home

Today, there is not one U.S. state, metropolitan area, or county in which a minimum wage worker who clocks 40 hours a week can afford a two-bedroom apartment. To afford a one-bedroom at national average fair market rate, it would take federal minimum wage workers 103 hours a week. The map below shows where in the country it’s necessary to work more than double the standard workweek to afford a one-bedroom apartment:

As part of its report, NHLIC also calculated a national “housing wage,” defined as the approximate hourly rate any worker would have to make in order to afford a two or one-bedroom apartment at fair market rent.

Source: www.citylab.com

Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defendants in lawsuits

Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defendants in lawsuits

Matt Steecker, ithacajournal.com | @MSteecker

Several New York universities and colleges are improving the accessibility of their websites to individuals with disabilities while facing lawsuits alleging their websites do not comply with standards from the Americans With Disabilities Act. About 50 institutions are being sued, and 11 of them are from upstate New York, including Cornell University, Ithaca College, Rochester Institute of Technology and Nazareth College. Because the college has been focusing on migrating its content from the older, less-accessible platform to the modern platform, it has not had the opportunity to do accessibility testing with users who use screen readers or special web browsing tools, Cameron said.

Source: www.ithacajournal.com