The Daily Index — Wednesday, August 21, 2024 · TLDR Index

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WAYMO SAYS IT HAS DOUBLED ITS WEEKLY PAID ROBOTAXI TRIPS TO 100,000 SINCE MAY

Waymo is now providing more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in the US. It serves the most trips in San Francisco. The company claims that its driverless vehicles have driven over 14.8 million rider-only miles. It also claims that the Waymo Driver is 3.5 times better at avoiding crashes that cause injuries and 3 times better at avoiding police-reported crashes than human drivers.

cnbc.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

FINE-TUNING NOW AVAILABLE FOR GPT-4O

OpenAI has launched fine-tuning for GPT-4o, allowing developers to customize the model for specific use cases with their own datasets. It is offering 1 million free training tokens per day through September 23.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

NEVER CALL NEW DATE() INSIDE YOUR COMPONENTS

It's good not to call impure functions like `new Date()` inside React components, especially when setting the initial state. Doing so makes testing difficult due to inconsistencies. Instead, it's better to pass the impure function or its result as a prop, which this article shows through code examples.

kyleshevlin.com · 5 min

TLDR InfoSec

100,000 IMPACTED BY JEWISH HOME LIFECARE DATA BREACH

Jewish Home Lifecare, a New York City healthcare nonprofit, disclosed a data breach impacting over 104,000 individuals. Hackers accessed personal and medical information, including Social Security numbers and financial details.

securityweek.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

SEC REJECTS CBOE SOL ETF FILING

The U.S. SEC has rejected Cboe BZX's filings for two Solana ETFs, following the SEC's stance that Solana qualifies as a security. Despite the setback, the issuers, 21Shares and VanEck, remain active on the SEC's filing system and may consider refiling with revisions arguing that Solana is not a security.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min

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OPENAI'S MOST ADVANCED MODEL CAN NOW BE CUSTOMIZED. HERE'S HOW

OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini can now be fine-tuned and customized by developers for business use. Developers can now use their own datasets to enhance the model's knowledge base with proprietary information and control how the model responds to specific questions. It costs $25 for every 1 million tokens used to fine-tune GPT-4o - $3 for GPT-4o mini. 1 million tokens is roughly equivalent to 2,500 pages in a standard-size book.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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WATCH THIS ROBOT QUICKLY INSTALL ROOF SHINGLES

Renovate Robotics' Rufus V1 rooftop robot can automate one of construction's most common and dangerous tasks - roofing. The robot can currently only install shingles, but future versions will be able to rip them out and perform solar installs. It is designed for large roofs and works on slopes up to 12:12, helping contractors maximize their productivity. A video showing the robot in action is available in the article.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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AGAINST ALL ODDS, AN ASTEROID MINING COMPANY APPEARS TO BE MAKING HEADWAY

AstroForge recently announced that it successfully raised $40 million in Series A funding. The company aims to mine asteroids for platinum and other precious metals. It is working to launch a spacecraft in the fourth quarter of this year that will attempt to fly by a near-Earth, metallic-rich asteroid while capturing images and taking data. The company has planned a follow-up mission that involves a larger spacecraft docking with the targeted metallic asteroid using magnets.

arstechnica.com · 5 min

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EFFECTIVE CHANGELOGS

Changelogs are a vital and often overlooked method of communication. This post discusses how to write a great changelog. It covers the basics (you need to at least have a changelog file), formatting, writing style, and more. A full example is provided at the end of the post.

xavd.id · 14 min