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PyApp is a wrapper for Python applications that bootstrap themselves at runtime. It can easily build standalone binaries for every platform with extremely configurable runtime behavior allowing for the targeting of different end users. PyApp provides optional management commands that allow for functionalities like self-updates.
SvelteKit is the official framework for building apps with Svelte. Version 2.0 adds support for Vite 5 and other small improvements. It also adds shallow routing, which allows developers to associate state with a history entry without causing navigation. Shallow routing is useful for creating modals that can be dismissed by swiping back or pop-up views of routes that don't require full navigation.
This article looks at the advantages and disadvantages to adding screenshots to documentation and provides guidelines for using screenshots in documentation. Screenshots in documentation can be bad as outdated screenshots can cause customers to lose trust in the documentation accuracy, they make pages load more slowly, they make the documentation less accessible, and using them can cause writers to produce lower-quality instructions. However, they can be useful as they make it easier to find relevant parts of the content, provide a visual frame of reference for readers, and can supplement confusing task steps.
OpenAI launched a superalignment program earlier this year to find a technical means to control a superintelligent AI system. It has devoted 20% of its compute to the effort and hopes to have solutions by 2027. The first preprint paper from the superalignment team tests whether a weaker AI (GPT-2) can supervise a stronger one (GPT-4). OpenAI is offering US $10 million in grants for work on a variety of alignment approaches.
Cruise has laid off 900 mostly non-engineering employees as part of a plan to slash costs and attempt to revamp the company.
Mozilla has announced more than 450 new extensions for Firefox Android users.
MIT CSAIL's NeuralDisplay combines eye-tracking with machine learning to compensate for a user's investigation on the fly without additional optics.
Gaudi3 is an artificial intelligence chip for generative AI software designed to compete with Nvidia's H100.
A list of things a CTO can do to destroy the productivity of a company slowly while maintaining a facade of plausibility and normalcy.
SpaceX has been issued an experimental special temporary authorization to conduct a test that involves beaming data to unmodified smartphones in over two dozen locations across the US.
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Drata now has +500K users for its top-rated GRC software [5]. Why are companies like Notion and Vercel choosing Drata? 1️⃣ A rich integration ecosystem [5] (85+ integrations) means customers can automatically collect compliance evidence across their cloud and SaaS stack.
Tesla has released a demo video showing the latest version of its Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robot. The video, available in the article, shows a vastly improved robot moving in real time without any CGI performing various tasks like walking, crouching, manipulating eggs without breaking them, and waving its arms. Tesla aims to eventually develop a robot to replace human labor in a seamless way.
Netflix will start publishing comprehensive deep dives into what its subscribers are watching twice a year. Its first report provides viewer data on more than 18,000 titles representing a total of nearly 100 billion hours viewed. Netflix's lack of transparency created an environment of mistrust in the industry. The company says that the data released is the same data that it uses to run its business.
DeepSouth is a supercomputer designed to operate in a manner similar to a network of neurons. It uses interconnected artificial neurons and synapses to emulate the brain's ability to learn, adapt, and process information in a highly parallel and distributed manner. The neuromorphic supercomputer will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain, when it becomes operational in April 2024.
Scientists have discovered the first indication of nuclear fission occurring amongst the stars. The discovery supports the idea that neutron stars create superheavy elements that break down via nuclear fission to birth elements like gold. It brings scientists a step closer to solving the mystery of where the universe's heavy elements come from. The research also indicated that elements with atomic masses greater than 260 may briefly exist around neutron star smashes.
This blog post describes five solid examples for making llamafile more productive on the command line. It shows various ways to use one-liners to produce specific results. Each example contains code and demo files.
This page contains a collection of familiar navigation patterns for structuring iOS apps. The collection covers structural, overlay, and embedded navigation patterns. Each section contains an example and a detailed breakdown of the pattern.
Monetizing open source software is notoriously difficult. This post describes Avalonia's approach to creating a sustainable business around a popular open source project. Avalonia's 30% month-over-month growth during 2023 came with many challenges, which meant that its team needed to expand to handle its community's growing needs. The project gains income through development services, support agreements, in-person training, donations, and by making a paid product.
European lawmakers have reached a provisional deal on artificial intelligence rules. The EU AI Act uses a tier system that ranks AI applications based on risk. High risk AI systems, systems that could impact safety or fundamental rights, and General Purpose AI Systems, have the most onerous regulatory restrictions. Many parts of the legislation were heavily contested even until the final hours before the deal was approved. The full approved AI Act text won't be available for several weeks.
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Meta is beginning to test making Threads posts available on ActivityPub-supporting services.
OpenAI will train its generative AI models on Axel Springer's content and add recent articles from the publisher to ChatGPT.
It's easy to choose a design system, but getting teams to align with and understand the resulting decision-making around design systems is difficult.
llmware is a framework that provides tools for rapidly building industrial-grade enterprise LLM-based applications.
This guide discusses what Gemini is, analyzes its performance across a range of computer vision tasks, and shares resources for building with Gemini.
Elon Musk is intent on setting up a primary and secondary school in Austin, Texas, that will focus primarily on STEM - the school will eventually expand and develop into a university.
Apple's top apps and games of 2023 features year-end charts localized for users in more than 35 countries and regions. It is currently available in the App Store's Today tab. The list includes the top free and paid apps and games and the best apps and games of the year selected by the App Store Editorial team. A list of the year's most downloaded apps and games in the US is available in the article.
Some ChatGPT users started to notice that the AI was becoming more lazy in late November. The chatbot was reportedly refusing to do some tasks or returning simplified results. OpenAI has admitted that it's an issue, but it hasn't identified why. People usually slow down in December and put bigger projects off until the new year - the 'winter break hypothesis' says that ChatGPT has learned this and may be getting lazier because of it. The theory has yet to be proven. OpenAI is working on a potential fix.
Blue Origin has announced that it will fly an uncrewed mission as early as December 18. The mission will carry 33 science and research payloads, as well as other cargo. New Shepard has been grounded since September 2022 as it has been implementing changes recommended by the FAA. Blue Origin's license will expire in August 2025 and is limited to launches from Blue Origin's West Texas facilities only.
Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer by combining laboratory-grown human brain tissue with conventional electronic circuits. The biocomputer can complete tasks such as voice recognition. The study confirms some key theoretical ideas that could eventually make a biological computer possible. The technology could be used to model and study neurological disorders or integrated into artificial intelligence systems.
Nuekit is a static site generator and web application builder. It features universal hot-reloading for content, layouts, styling, and reactive islands. Nuekit provides client-side routing for both websites and single-page applications.
UniDep is a command line interface tool that provides unified Conda and Pip dependency management. It allows projects to manage dependencies using a single requirements.yaml file for both Conda and Pip dependencies. UniDep can install Conda Pip, and local dependencies with a single command.
Epic Games won its fight to break Google's control over Android apps on Monday. It was Epic CEO Tim Sweeney's idea to challenge Google in court. This article contains an interview with Sweeney where he discusses why he sued Google, what he learned, and his plans for what's next. Sweeney and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have already started discussions, but they have yet to reach a settlement.
This is Ben Evans’ annual presentation about important trends in tech. It discusses how AI has taken over the tech world and its effects on the economy. The presentation covers topics like regulation, platform shifts, problems in the field, AI use cases, and more. AI enables new kinds of companies and businesses to exist - this is similar to how cars changed how society organized itself.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), which was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, has officially been canned - the industry no longer needs the event to show off their upcoming games.
chDB is an embedded OLAP SQL Engine that has input and output support for more than 60 formats.
20-gig installations will start in Q1 of 2024 - all other Google Fiber pricing will stay the same.
A cloud engineer that worked for First Republic Bank caused an estimated over $220,000 in damages after being fired for connecting a USB drive containing pornography to company computers.
Expo Router is a routing library for Universal React Native applications - the v3 beta offers a new experimental system for building server endpoints.
Bureaucratic leverage is the ratio of work produced for external entities to do relative to the amount of work directly done by the bureaucracy.
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Cloud risk can grow faster than your AWS bill (true story). That’s why Wiz partnered with Wiley to create the AWS SECURITY FOR DUMMIES EBOOK. This free pdf contains 46 pages of expert tips to harden your AWS environment, including:
iOS 17.2 is now available for compatible devices. The update includes a new Journal app designed to get users writing about events in their lives with prompts that draw from data on their phones. The update also adds the option to record spatial videos. Other features include the ability to set the iPhone 15 Pro's Action Button to translate phrases, new Weather widgets, new features for the Messages app, Qi2 support for the iPhone 13 and 14, and more. Apple also recently released watchOS 10.2 and tvOS 17.2.
Mistral AI has closed its Series A funding round, raising around $415 million. The company, which is valued at roughly $2 billion, is opening up its commercial platform today. The platform will allow developers to access the Mistral 7B model, Mistral-medium, and the new Mixtral 8x7B model, which uses a router network to process input tokens and choose the most apt group of parameters to give answers. Mixtral 8x7B has been released under the Apache 2.0 license and is available as a free download.
The world's leading semiconductor companies are racing to make 2-nanometer processor chips to power the next generation of technologies. Smaller transistors mean less energy consumption and higher speeds. The chip industry pulled in well over $500 billion in global chip sales last year and demand is projected to grow further. Several companies say they will be ready to ship 2nm ships in 2025.
General Motors will use Autocar's hydrogen fuel-cell technology to power a range of its heavy-duty work vehicles. Hydrotec power cubes are lightweight, enabling large payloads, excellent range, and quick refueling. The first vehicles with the power cubes will go into production in 2026. Hydrotec technology is currently being sold to commercial and military customers, but there are plans to offer residential versions of the technology in the future.