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Douyin's success in China has emboldened TikTok to replicate it in the US. TikTok aims to offer exciting live-streaming experiences, innovative brand storefronts, and diversify into new categories like food delivery. Its massive user base gives it an advantage over competitors. TikTok's expansion into e-commerce could reshape online shopping and how customers engage with brands.
Answer this series of 7 questions to formulate an effective value proposition, which in turn will also inform brand positioning and marketing strategy.
This author treated their career as a product, and as part of that grew their Substack newsletter to $30K ARR.
A US-centric cheat sheet on how to refer to Latine folx.
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This blog post explains how the modulo operator works by examining it through a new mental model for division. The modulo operator is useful for various real-world use cases, like circular arrays. Circular arrays are common on the web and can be used for various things, like an array of status colors.
You don’t need to explicitly learn Svelte, because, as a web developer, you probably already know it. Svelte’s syntax is standard JavaScript. This article goes through the differences between React and Svelte. It compares standard practices in React and Svelte, like declaring components, lifecycle, state management, scoped styles, and more.
This article provides four lessons learned from building a call summarization app using GPT-4. It highlights the limitations of AI and discusses using GPT-4 as a coding assistant. It also discusses LLM tools and gives some tips for startup founders.
Today’s software development includes extensive use of open-source libraries, APIs, and other components. Most companies use some open source in their infrastructure, products, and services. Staff+ engineers and leaders can help a company understand how to both maintain and support open-source components by showing how critical they are to a company’s success. This helps the open-source ecosystem thrive at the same time.
Depcheck is a tool for analyzing the dependencies in a project to see how each dependency is used, which dependencies are useless, and which dependencies are missing from package.json.
Chrono is a natural language date parser in JavaScript. It is designed to handle most date/time formats and extract information from any given text.
Microsoft was the first major company to come up with a specialized testing role that went well beyond manual testing. Microsoft pioneered the SDET (Software Developer in Test) role for engineers solely focused on building testing systems and writing automated tests. However, over time, the SDET role was no longer needed, and Microsoft formally retired it in 2014. It was better for all software engineers to both write code and test it themselves as it led to productivity gains.
Many employers ignore the fact that investing in the retention of skilled and reliable employees is one of the best business moves they could make. A 63-year-old programmer retired and the company they worked for asked for them back. The company said yes to all of his demands, like a 32-hour work week with the same compensation, because it realized how much company-specific knowledge he had. He was a COBOL programmer and the company’s clients were entire states in the US.
Email exchanges from Microsoft execs, including Satya Nadella, on the PS5 reveal, acquiring TikTok and Nintendo, and tactics against Google/Apple.
Release notes on JDK 21, like new string templates and more sequenced collections.
A backend challenge for developers that can be written in Rust or Java.
iOS 17 and iPadOS17 bring new features such as Contact Posters, Live Voicemail, and upgraded autocorrect. iOS 17 will have a feature called StandBy that turns iPhones into a display while charging. iPadOS 17 allows users to personalize their lock screens and add interactive widgets. Apple has also released tvOS 17.
Charter and Disney have agreed on a package that will provide subscribers with Disney Plus Basic when they pay for Spectrum's TV Select package. Subscribers who choose Spectrum TV Select Plus will also get ESPN Plus. Spectrum cable customers will soon be able to bundle multiple streaming services on their bills.
Stoke Space has successfully completed a key test of its second stage prototype. The space startup is now one step closer to flying a fully reusable launch vehicle. It plans to conduct its first orbital flight test in 2025. A video of the second stage prototype test is available in the article.
Agility Robotics is building a factory in Oregon that will be able to manufacture more than 10,000 of its Digit humanoid robots per year. The 70,000-square-foot RoboFab facility is set to open later this year. Digit robots will be used in the factory to produce more Digits. A video announcement from Agility Robotics about the factory is available in the article.
HyperDX is an open source observability platform that helps to quickly resolve production issues. It centralizes and correlates logs, metrics, traces, exceptions, and session replays in one place. HyperDX allows users to dashboard high cardinality events without a complex query language and set up alerts in just a few clicks. Screenshots are available.
MongoDB is releasing a new query engine in version 7.0. The change completely overhauls the way the engine executes the strategy picked by the query optimizer. While the classic engine was mature and it served customers' needs, its data model and approach resulted in suboptimal performance and a serious maintenance burden. This article shares some technical details about the new engine.
A Reddit user recently posted an AI-generated image of a spiral-shaped medieval village that gained rapid attention on social media for its remarkable geometric qualities. The image was created using Stable Diffusion and a guidance technique called ControlNet. A similar technique for producing QR codes went viral earlier this year. This article explains how the artwork was generated. Examples of other similar artworks are available.
Unity announced a Runtime Fee on September 12 that will charge developers for each game installation past a certain threshold. This was not received well by the developer community, who were quick to point out all the problems that the fee might cause. Unity posted an apology on X on September 17 saying that it would make changes to the policy and share an update in a couple of days. It is rumored that Unity plans to limit fees to 4% of a game's revenue for customers making over $1 million. The new approach will reportedly also not retroactively count installations.
The Augmented Reality Microscope, while not yet ready for clinical use, has shown initial promise as a useful tool for pathologists without easy access to a second opinion.
npm gradually implemented all of the features that made Yarn special over the years - the same thing will likely happen with Bun.
An efficient 800-square-foot garden could sustain a family of four.
AWS currently owns 127,972,688 IPv4 addresses and it has plans to charge $43.80 per year per IPv4 address starting in February next year.
Coronal mass ejections are immense eruptions of plasma and energy from the Sun's corona - a video of the fly-through is available in the article.
This post shares some of the discussions going on inside Microsoft among the senior leadership team and the board during the early days of the pandemic and after the company decided to lay off thousands of employees.
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Most developers have already incorporated AI tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT into their day-to-day. At the same time, a staggering 79% of devs have privacy and security concerns. Find out where AI innovation meets security in these handy technical resources from Nylas
The Department of Defense has teamed up with Google to build an AI-powered microscope that can help doctors better identify cancer.
Writer, who is developing a "full-stack" generative AI platform for businesses, has secured $100M in Series B funding led by ICONIQ Growth. The funds will advance its "industry-specific" text-generating AI models. Differentiating itself in a competitive market, Writer focuses on non-copyrighted business writing, cost-effective models, transparency, and ensuring that no training is done using customer data.
Databricks has secured over $500 million in a Series I round, boosting its valuation to $43 billion. Noteworthy investors include T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley, and Nvidia. Despite wider market funding slowdowns, Databricks' strong revenue growth and run rate suggest an eventual IPO could exceed its current valuation.
Typically with language models, the input and output embedding layers are tied together. However, if you tie the input embedding to other embeddings within the model, and use a contrastive loss, you can get dramatically improved performance both in wall clock and final benchmark accuracy.
Fine-tuning pre-trained vision models for specific tasks often requires a lot of extra computing power. Researchers have come up with a method called "Salient Channel Tuning" (SCT) that smartly picks which parts of a model to fine-tune, using way fewer extra settings and still outperforming other methods in almost all tested tasks.
Large language models like GPT-3 are smart because they learn from a ton of data, but how do they react when new information conflicts with what they already know? Researchers have found that these models can get confused and give wrong answers, especially when they face conflicting or distracting info, raising concerns about how reliable they can be.
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Open source AI models have significant advantages over proprietary models. For most AI applications, controllability, customizability, transparency, and trust are more important than advanced reasoning abilities. AI-native companies should focus on owning their core models rather than outsourcing their intelligence layer to external providers.
Researchers have found a way to make 2D and 3D technologies work together seamlessly for better and more flexible designs.
Event cameras have some cool benefits like low power use and quick response times, but they struggle with creating detailed 3D models of scenes. Researchers have introduced Robust e-NeRF, a new method that makes these cameras much better at building 3D models, even in challenging conditions like fast motion or varying light.
This article makes the argument that we should wait to regulate AI, as regulation frequently results in reduced competition and production, economic benefits moving overseas, and a government-centric instead of a user-centric industry.
Despite concerns that AI would render human creativity obsolete, we continue to appreciate human endeavors, like chess, even when AI performs better. This paradox arises because humans value imperfection, surprises, and shared experiences, which AI, with its constant optimization, cannot replicate.
GE Health is set to create an AI-assisted ultrasound imaging tool designed for easy use by healthcare providers without specialized training. The device aims to improve medical imaging and will primarily focus on maternal, fetal, and pediatric lung health to address preventable maternal and child mortality.
An experimental LLM agent with direct Vim access, intended for use either as a sub-agent for efficient file editing or as its own agent runtime.
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Ring 一 Acquired by Amazon for $1.2B Nest 一 Acquired by Google for $3.2B
In the much anticipated hearing yesterday between Binance and the SEC, a US judge refused to grant either side their petitions. Instead, the judge urged both sides to manage discovery requests together rather than coercing the other side to produce documents. The judge asked the SEC to reduce its broad demands for information but granted permission to question certain shareholders. On the other side of the fence, Binance was asked to share further information about its relationship with its service provider, Ceffu.
Blockchain Capital has announced two new funds amounting to $580m. The majority of these funds will go towards an early-stage fund, with the remainder set aside for their first-ever "opportunity fund". The targets for investments out of these funds are DeFi, CeFi, centralized infrastructure, decentralized infrastructure, gaming, and consumer or social sectors. The firm plans to deploy this capital over three years but could move as quickly as two years and as slowly as five years.
Citigroup has launched a new product called Citi Token Services, which will tokenize customer deposits with the aim of enabling 24/7 transfers. Currently housed under the company's treasury and trade solutions division, the new service employs a private blockchain and eliminates the need for clients to create their own personal digital wallets. It is integrated directly into the bank’s existing infrastructure. The initiative is expected to streamline cross-border payments and settlements, advancing transactions within trade finance.
Blockchain startup Bastion has raised $25 million in a funding round led by a16z crypto, an impressive raise in the midst of a brutal bear market and lackluster funding environment. The startup, co-founded by former executives from a16z crypto, is looking to solve problems with wallet custody and compliance in crypto.