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SpaceX is planning its second Starship launch on Saturday. The launch was originally scheduled for Friday but it was postponed so SpaceX could replace a grid fin actuator on the launch stack. The flight will aim to send Starship's upper stage partway around Earth, with a splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. This article goes into detail about how the test will work.
SQLite uses Fossil instead of the Git version control system. Fossil is a version control system specifically designed and written to support SQLite. This article details why SQLite built Fossil. It also provides a guide on how to use Fossil.
Terminal is great for getting things done fast. This blog contains a guide on how to navigate through the shell quickly. It covers the basics, useful aliases, globs, how to use bookmarks, and more.
Inspired by Stanford's Western Town paper, which used a framework combining memory, reflection, planning, and action to facilitate interactions between GPTs, this developer decided to use a similar framework to build an experience similar to what's depicted in the movie 'Her'. This blog post details the lessons the developer learned throughout the process. In the end, the project failed due to several reasons. The chatbots would just wait for users’ inputs rather than reaching out and content moderation policies crippled the bots’ functionality.
The idea of Objectives and Key Results seems simple - any problem can be made solvable by the careful setting of Os and KRs. However, many startups fail to implement the system. The system may work fine for a large company like Google, with its particular needs and structure, but it causes confusion for everyone else. This may be by design: OKRs may in fact be a subtle ploy to keep startups off balance.
Companies can contribute to open source projects with money, developer time, or both.
Pipeless allows developers to easily create, deploy, and run computer vision applications.
Google will transition to Manifest V3 with some key changes, one being improved content filtering support for the Declarative Net Request API used by ad-blocking extensions.
Retool surveyed over 1,500 tech people in a variety of industries to find out how they're actually using and building with AI.
Microsoft Mesh, the company's mixed reality platform, is being integrated into Teams to allow coworkers to meet together in a virtual space - VR headsets are not required.
A look at what money is and what would happen if currency expired.
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Microsoft built its own custom AI chip for training large language models. It has also developed Arm-based CPU for cloud workloads. Both chips will arrive in 2024. They could potentially lessen the industry’s reliance on Nvidia. Microsoft is already designing the second-generation versions of these chips. More details about the new chips are available in the article.
Google is experimenting with a way for users to create and read Notes that contain tips from other people when searching for an article or topic. The feature is a response to the popularity of people adding ‘Reddit’ to their search queries for more human results. Users can like, share, save, or report Notes. More details about Notes and other new features Google recently added to Search are available in the article.
Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3,000-kilometer-long internet network linking Beijing to the south. The firms claim it is the world's first network to achieve a stable and reliable bandwidth of 1.2 terabits per second. The network uses domestically-owned key technologies.
A single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment has been shown to reduce cholesterol in people with an inherited condition that causes extremely high LDL cholesterol levels. The treatment uses CRISPR to edit a gene in the liver. Gene editing could provide a longer-lasting option for treating hereditary high cholesterol compared to long-term medication. A lot of work still needs to be done to ensure that the treatment is safe.
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Walk through some crucial tips and tricks to help you securely embrace AI technology and get some tips for protecting against AI-generated code risks such as prompt injection and data access.
MonkeyPatch is a method for easily calling an LLM in place of the function body in Python. It produces the same parameters and output you would expect from a function implemented by hand. MonkeyPatch produces functions that are well-typed, reliable, stateless, and production-ready.
The future of cloud data services is large-scale and multi-tenant. This article looks at real-world serverless multi-tenant (MT) data architectures to understand how different types of systems implement serverless MT. While some patterns immediately jump out, there is a surprising amount of diversity among the systems surveyed. The article covers what serverless MT is and the generic challenges in building these systems.
Amazon employees risk undermining their own promotion prospects if they don’t return to the office for three days a week. Corporate workers must get VP-level approval if they aren’t able to come into the office. Amazon had issued a return-to-office mandate in May. Around 10% of its employees protested the mandate, including those that joined the company during the pandemic as remote workers.
GPTs allows ChatGPT Plus users to create their own custom GPT chat bots that other Plus subscribers can then talk to. While it might not seem like much more than a fancy wrapper for standard GPT-4 with some pre-baked prompts, GPTs combines many features to provide much more than that. This article discusses these features and shows users how to get the most out of OpenAI’s latest feature.
The highest tier of search revenue share for cooperative Android OEMs is 12%.
Loop provides flexible and collaborative workspaces and pages that make it easier for users to cooperate on work.
SpaceX is considering launching an initial public offering as soon as late 2024.
Most people who use VBA do so because they have no other choice - many organizations run their entire business processes with Excel, which requires VBA to automate.
Consider moving if conditions inside functions to the caller instead, and if you have a whole batch of things to work with, you can amortize the startup cost and be flexible about the order things are processed.
Users wanting to sign up for a new ChatGPT subscription will now have to sign up for a waitlist to be notified when subscriptions reopen.
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Innovation in FinTech means developers have more options than ever when it comes to building payments infrastructure. However, this also means more complexity. Get this free ebook [5] to learn how to think about setting up your payment operations stack [5], and the key considerations for a growing company:
SpaceX may launch the second Starship orbital test as soon as this Friday. Elon Musk said on X that SpaceX will receive a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration in time for the launch. The last orbital attempt was almost seven months ago - it ended in a mid-air explosion that led to a months-long federal investigation. The FAA and the US Fish and Wildlife Service have yet to announce the completion of an environmental review for the test. The most critical part of the test flight will be hot staging, where Starship's upper stage separates from its boost and ignites its own engines.
Upstart phone manufacturer Nothing says its new Nothing Chats app allows Android users to use iMessage, complete with blue bubbles sent to their iPhone contacts. An early version of Nothing Chats will start rolling out on Friday. The app will only work for Nothing Phone 2 owners. Nothing claims that its setup is completely legal and that it doesn't see any scenario in which Apple could block it.
An AI meteorology model from Google DeepMind called GraphCast significantly outperforms conventional weather forecasting methods in predicting global weather conditions up to 10 days in advance. GraphCast outperformed the world's leading conventional system in 90% of 1,380 metrics. It can predict hundreds of weather variables over 10 days at 0.25° resolution globally in under a minute. GraphCast is estimated to be about 1,000 times cheaper in terms of energy consumption compared to traditional methods.
xMEMS is a five-year-old startup that specializes in making speakers from microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) silicon-and-piezoelectric chips. Its designs have many advantages over other miniature speakers. A new technology designed by the company uses ultrasonic modulation and demodulation to create pressure and generate sound. This article covers MEMS systems and explains how xMEMS' ultrasound system works.
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New Relic is pioneering AI observability with New Relic AI Monitoring (AIM) [10]. AIM makes it easier to troubleshoot and optimize AI applications for performance, quality, cost, and responsible use of AI. With these capabilities, engineers have unprecedented visibility and insights across the AI stack. Learn more about New Relic AI
Inko is a statically typed language that compiles into machine code using LLVM. This article highlights lessons learned while developing the programming language. Inko was originally heavily inspired by Ruby and Smalltalk, but 10 years later, it's closer to Rust, Erlang, and Pony. It has been used to write meaningful applications like HVAC automation software, a Markdown parser, a changelog generator, and more.
This repository contains a document that outlines recommendations for cryptographic algorithm choices and parameters as well as important implementation details. Some knowledge of cryptography is required to understand the terminology used in the document. The document aims to be a resource for those getting into writing programs related to cryptography.
Playing professional poker can sound like a dream job - you aren't answerable to anybody, you set your own schedule, play from anywhere in the world, and the money is close to VP+ level in unicorn/FAANG companies. However, there are many downsides to playing the game for a living - at the highest levels, it becomes an intense grind that can sometimes bring no (or negative) results for long periods of time. There are many more stable forms of income that have a better potential for growth.
Many tech companies were caught off-guard by the introduction of AI. The easiest way for them to catch up was large-scale GPU purchasing, making Nvidia the AI kingmaker. This article looks at the factors that amplified the GPU shortage to understand how the 2020s will unfold. It aims to bring tech-savvy people up to speed on the Nvidia craze, LLM training mega-runs, and the resulting shortage.
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Marques Brownlee is a 29-year-old YouTuber who makes videos about new tech - makers of everything from smartwatches to electric cars crave the attention one of Brownlee's videos can bring.
There's nothing preventing Android developers from bringing apps to VR - Meta's Quest headsets run a heavily modified version of Android that supports the installation of Android apps.
Centrus is on track to produce 20 kilograms of high-assay, low-enriched uranium by the end of the year and 900 kg in 2024.
Android developers with personal accounts will have to test their apps with a minimum of 20 people for at least 2 weeks prior to publication.
Use a better algorithm, a better data structure, a lower level system, or accept a less precise solution.
The reality of life is dynamic and generative - creating the life and the work you want is a difficult but absolutely attainable challenge.
Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default. Google and Apple had objected to making this information public, but a witness from Google let it slip during their testimony. It is unclear how much money this amounts to, but it is estimated that Apple likely gets paid tens of billions of dollars out of the deal. Google pays a total of $26 billion for its default contracts.