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Biome is a performant toolchain for web projects that aims to provide developers with tools for maintaining the health of their projects. It features a fast formatter and performant linter for JavaScript, TypeScript, and JSX. Biome is designed to be used interactively within an editor. It can format and lint malformed code as it is being written.
Huh? is a simple library for building interactive forms and prompts in the terminal. It can be used as a standalone application or be integrated into Bubble Tea applications. Huh? contains a first-class accessible mode for screen readers. Examples of how to use the library are available.
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang recently said that if he could be 30 again, he wouldn't start a company as the work he put into Nvidia wasn't worth it. This article explores Huang's statement from a founder's perspective with a focus on figuring out why it's such a surprise to people that building a startup would be hard. No matter how successful a company is, nearly every founder says that the work was much harder than they thought it would be. This doesn't happen in fields like sports, where athletes work hard for decades but they are never surprised about how hard it was.
Google's latest 'Year in Search' overview highlights the most searched topics over the past year. It provides global and regional insights as well as interactive displays, games, and more. Google added a new element dedicated to historic Search trends to celebrate 25 years of Search. It allows users to see how things have evolved over the years and how that's reflected in the top trends.
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The AWS innovation Ambassadors Podcast showcases use cases such as generative AI, cloud cost optimization, scaling workloads, and more.
TikTok entered 2023 with more than $6.2 billion in consumer spending already and then added another $3.8 billion throughout the year.
Wi-Fi 7 offers speeds of up to 40 Gbit/s - five times quicker than Wi-Fi 6.
It is unclear what the outcome of the case will be as Epic never sued for monetary damages - it wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its open app stores and billing systems on Android.
Marmot is a distributed SQLite replicator that creates robust replications between nodes by building on top of fault-tolerant NATS JetStream.
This article looks beyond the various types that HTML's input element can embody to lesser-known attributes that make the element more usable, accessible, and applicable to more situations.
Beeper Mini now requires signing in with an Apple ID - developers are working on a fix to bring back the phone-number-only method available at Beeper Mini's launch.
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Beeper Mini, an app that brought iMessage to Android, recently experienced an outage. It appeared that Apple found a way to make the app stop functioning. The service is now back online. Apple claims that the app poses significant risks to user security and privacy. Beeper claims that its service increases iPhone security as without it, texts would be sent to Android devices unencrypted.
OpenAI's Q* model can reportedly perform math on the level of grade-school students. While Q* might not be the crucial breakthrough that will lead to artificial general intelligence, it might be an important step towards an AI with general reasoning abilities. This article takes a look at the area of AI math research and explains why step-by-step reasoning techniques designed for math problems could have much broader applications. Building a general reasoning engine will require a way for language models to learn new abstractions that go beyond their training data and have these evolving abstractions influence the model's choices as it explores the space of possible solutions.
Transparent wood could soon find uses as super-strong screens for smartphones, glowing light fixtures, and structural features like color-changing windows. The material outperforms plastic and glass in tests measuring how easily materials fracture or break under pressure. It is a far better insulator than glass, so windows made out of the material could help buildings retain heat or keep it out. For now, transparent wood still has a higher environmental impact than glass, but scaling up manufacturing and embracing greener production schemes could help make it more sustainable.
The FDA has approved two gene therapies for treating sickle cell disease. These treatments have been shown to be highly effective at preventing vaso-occlusive events and crises. One of the treatments, the first CRISPR/Cas9 therapy approved in the US, turns on the production of fetal hemoglobin to replace deformed red blood cells. The other therapy uses a Lentiviral vector to insert the genetic code for a modified type of hemoglobin designed to be anti-sickling.
This article demonstrates how to serve videos using some of the features used for serving content based on user preferences and accessibility features. It presents alternate versions of a video for assorted media queries. Each example embeds the video with its alternate version, shows the HTML code used, and provides the alternate version alone. The examples are designed so developers can compare and confirm whether changes made to their browsers, systems, or within dev tools were successful.
FrankenPHP is a modern PHP application server that can create a production-grade PHP server with just one command. It has native support for Symphony, Laravel, WordPress, and more. Most popular PHP extensions should work with FrankenPHP.
Investors and startup founders flocked to Austin during the COVID-19 pandemic due to its lower cost of living, hip lifestyle, and business-friendly environment. Some are now leaving or looking to leave the city. The weather and economy were not as favorable as they'd expected. This article looks at a few of the companies that are leaving and the reasons why.
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Git already does everything, and abstracting away the complexity of the UI will only abstract away its power - any effort put into seeking or building an alternative should just be spent on becoming a Git expert.
Researchers have identified elements of whale vocalizations that may be analogous to human speech.
Nova Mode is a ChatGPT prompt that is extremely useful for generating, revising, and iterating on ideas and content.
It is unclear whether Ilya Sutskever will play a role in OpenAI moving forward.
Mirror Lake is not a specific future product, but its technology could be seen in products in the second half of the decade.
The video (available in the article) shows the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft blasting skyward, close-ups of the stage separation, the explosive endings for both the booster and spacecraft, and behind-the-scenes footage of mission operators and Elon Musk watching the mission unfold.
The video demonstrating some of Google Gemini's best interactions may not be entirely real. While Gemini appears to be able to do the things that Google shows in the video, it isn't able to do them live and in the way the video implies. The video was a series of carefully tuned text prompts with still images selected to mislead viewers about the speed, accuracy, and fundamental mode of interaction with the model. A breakdown of the video is available in the article.
It is now possible to send iMessages without handing over Apple credentials or logging in with an Apple ID on a Mac server. Beeper Mini for Android allows Android users to send iMessages with all the typing, delivered/read receipt, emoji reaction, and most other iPhone-to-iPhone message features. The app is powered by a teenager's reverse-engineering discovery. This article looks at how the app works.
China has begun operations at a nuclear reactor that uses gas rather than water for cooling. Construction of the plant started in 2012 and its first reactor was connected to the country's power grid in 2021. Interest in gas-cooled reactors is increasing globally as they can provide efficient and cost-effective electricity. They can also produce high-temperature process heat for industrial applications. Pictures of the power plant are available in the article.
Lantern Bioworks claims to have a cure for tooth decay. It has a genetically modified bacterium designed to infect patients' mouths to outcompete tooth-decay-causing bacteria, making cavities a thing of the past. One treatment with the bacteria is enough to infect users' mouths forever. This article contains an interview with Lantern founder Aaron Silverbook where he explains how the technology works, both in a biological and economic sense.
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Jets is a Ruby Serverless Framework that includes everything required to build and deploy an application to AWS Lambda. It maps code to Lambda functions and other AWS resources like API Gateway and Event Rules. Several live demos of Jets applications are available.
This is a book on Data Engineering Design Patterns that aims to dissect the evolutionary paths in data engineering and identify universal design patterns applicable across the spectrum of data engineering. It explores the concept of convergent evolution, its relevance to data engineering, and how the concept can guide engineering through the Data Engineering Lifecycle and enrich their understanding and practice.
The Japanese Personal Web, or as they call it, creative/doujin sites, are personal websites indexed on specialized search engines. The criteria to be listed on these search engines is strict as sites with more formal contexts (eg business sites) aren't allowed. This article takes a look at some of these Japanese personal websites and compares them to similar sites from the West. The Personal Web is still very alive in the East, with many sites surviving for over a decade or two.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be the largest telescope on the planet that is able to detect visible and infrared light. It is the flagship project of the European Southern Observatory, an organization that comprises 16 countries. The telescope will allow scientists to see even the first galaxies from the dawn of the universe in greater detail. It will allow scientists to map the orbits of faraway stars in three dimensions and allow them to start developing theories based on three-dimensional models.
Starlink is the primary driver of SpaceX's valuation.
SuperDuperDB allows for the integration, training, and management of AI models and APIs directly within databases and data.
The latest release of systemd for Linux systems can generate full-screen error messages on Linux distributions.
The US Department of Defense has awarded well over $100 million in grants, investments, and initiatives aimed at increasing US access to rare earth elements over the last few years and now it has to deal with the environmental implications of a large-scale return of rare-earth processing.
This repository contains open source tools and guidelines for sending webhooks easily, securely, and reliably.
Q* is unlikely to be the crucial breakthrough that leads to artificial general intelligence, but it might be an important step toward an AI with general reasoning abilities.
Google's Gemini is a multimodal AI model that the company says will power a new era in computing. The largest version of the model exceeds current state-of-the-art results on 30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks used in large language model research and development. A specially tuned English version of the mid-level model is available now in 170 countries as part of Google's Bard chatbot. The smallest version of the model is designed to run locally on consumer devices.