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OpenTF is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. It can manage popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. OpenTF features Infrastructure as Code, execution plans, resource graphs, and change automation. It enables developers to declaratively manage cloud infrastructure.
Software engineers can become agnostic about business outcomes as they optimize for versatility and feature shipping efficiency. This can become an issue if they decide to become freelancers as becoming a freelancer forces them into a business owner position. Becoming a professional business owner means becoming an expert in delivering outcomes that add value. Working by the hour makes this goal harder to achieve and it also creates a worse experience for both the freelancer and their clients.
Google's new Topics API allows browsers to share information with third parties about a user's interests while preserving privacy. It is designed to replace cookies that track users' actions across the internet. The Topics API was included in Chrome 115. It can be turned off through the Ad Privacy section in Chrome Settings.
Apple will release the new Vision Pro App Store with the developer beta of visionOS in the fall.
Building hardware is easier now than ever before.
puck is a self-hosted drag-and-drop editor for React.
India's Moon lander and rover will fall asleep next to each other once solar power is depleted and will reawaken when the next lunar day starts around September 22.
This post contains a list of topics that people can study to make the world safer through policy and governance.
Arm submitted an updated filing for its upcoming IPO, setting a price range between $47 and $51 - only 9.4% of Arm's shares will be freely traded on the NASDAQ.
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A leaker claims that a future iPhone model may be able to take spatial photographs and videos that could be viewed by the Apple Vision Pro headset. Apple's Vision Pro has a three-dimensional camera capable of taking spatial photographs and videos. Current cameras will likely not be able to create 3D images good enough to be used in the headset. Apple will need to include an extra sensor on the opposite end of the rear of the iPhone to offer quality spatial photography.
A new report suggests that Meta has been working with LG to build a new VR headset. The partnership involves working with many LG subsidiaries, such as LG Electronics, LG Energy, LG Innotek, and LG Display. Meta appears to be interested in targeting both premium and entry-level segments. The headset will apparently launch in 2025 for a price of around $2,000. Meta will launch the Quest 3 around the same time for $499.
Researchers have created a model that maps chemical structure to odor descriptors using a type of deep learning algorithm called a graph neural network. The model can successfully predict how humans would describe new smells. It could potentially be used to digitize smells. The Principal Odor Map is open source. A link to the repository for the project is available in the article.
Sperm whales can generate streams of clicks using a specialized organ in their heads. These clicks can be used for echolocation or communication. Communications using these clicks seem to have the structure of a conversation. The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using machine learning to decode these communications. This article takes a look at the current state of CETI's work. Generative AI models may be able to create whale conversations that they understand, even if humans aren't able to understand them.
Cuber is an automation tool that can package and deploy apps on Kubernetes. It is made to reduce complexity and make the deployment process more standardized and reliable. While Kubernetes is complex and requires many steps and configurations, it is cheaper compared to other similar solutions and it doesn't lock developers into any cloud provider. Cuber provides developers with the simplicity of a Platform as a Service at the cost of bare infrastructure.
This page contains a list of hidden features in GitHub. The list includes opening repos in online VSCode using '.', adding experimental features, and regex code search. These features are all in the official documentation.
This article contains an interview with Pete Hines, head of global publishing at Bethesda, where he discusses the company's history with bugs, the state of the games industry, Starfield, the influence of Xbox and Game Pass, and more. The company is known for having quirky bugs in its open-world RPGs. Hines says that Bethesda would rather have these bugs than limit player freedom. He says that the bugs don't take away from the gaming experience and that the games are still consistently fun.
Some freelancers don't want to grow their businesses beyond one person. This is one freelancer's explanation of why they don't want to permanently become part of any team ever again. The main reason is that the way they work best is incompatible with agency work norms. Working independently allows for a lot of freedom and flexibility. Growth isn't always necessary, especially when you're happy with what you have.
The vaccine responds to fentanyl like a sponge, binding to the drug in the bloodstream and preventing it from crossing the blood-brain barrier.
Apple stated that those who attended its Vision Pro developer labs workshops were very satisfied with them.
BlueRock Therapeutics has implanted lab-made neurons into 12 people with Parkinson's disease to stimulate a dopamine response - there are indications that the treatment is reducing the patients' symptoms.
WebAssembly, a binary format that allows web developers to run code at near-native speed, may indeed prove to be the future of backend software development.
This article looks at how Google uses Google Colossus, a distributed file system, to store more than 10 exabytes of data on its servers.
Rapidgzip enables parallel decompression for any gzip file.
Apple is rumored to be eliminating leather cases for the iPhone 15 lineup. It will replace them with a line of woven fabric cases. Images of Chinese clones with the FineWoven name have surfaced online. These clones are likely based on legitimate information about Apple's upcoming release on September 12. Apple will also release a watch band for the Apple Watch Series 9 made from the same material.
Lenovo’s new 27-inch 4K monitor can produce 3D images without requiring viewers to wear glasses. It features a lenticular lens and real-time eye-tracking. The monitor works by projecting different images to each eye. Its 3D resolution is 1920x2160, but it can be switched to a 2D mode with 3840x2160 resolution. The 3D experience is limited to one user at a time. It is viewable from a 23.6 to 39.4-inch distance.
Waymo and Cruise have driven a combined total of over 8 million driverless miles. The two companies have reported 102 crashes, with most of the crashes being low-speed collisions that did not pose a serious safety risk and a large majority being the fault of the other driver. It will still take hundreds of millions more driverless miles to answer the question of whether driverless cars are safer than human drivers, but the evidence is starting to pile up.
Kidney cells housed within the Kidney Project's bioreactor can survive inside the body of a pig and mimic several important kidney functions for at least one week. The Kidney Project aims to create a device that can improve on dialysis. A bioartificial kidney would make treatments for kidney disease more effective, tolerable, and comfortable. The next steps for testing will be month-long trials, first in animals and then eventually in humans.
This article analyzes the SQL Iceberg meme, which shows increasingly complex or advanced SQL commands or operations. The article goes through each of the zones and explains every concept. It starts with simple commands like CREATE TABLE, JOIN, and NULL and moves into intermediate and advanced topics like connection pools, denormalization, the volcano models, and the Halloween problem.
Biome can format and lint JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, and CSS code in a fraction of a second. It requires minimal configuration and displays detailed and contextualized diagnostics. Biome is designed to eventually replace Babel, ESLint, webpack, Prettier, Jest, and more. It has first-class IDE support and top-notch error recovery.
California Forever, the parent company of Flannery Associates, a company that has purchased over 50,000 acres in Solano County, has revealed a website showing a planned city. The site promises a safe walkable city with solar farms and good local jobs that won't ruin the nearby agriculture. It doesn't discuss population, size, or how the city will sustain itself. The company plans to get locals to get on board with the project using surveys and a local advisory board.
This page contains highlights from an hour-long podcast with Mustafa Suleyman, one of the three co-founders of DeepMind, where he discusses ways to limit the negative and unforeseen consequences of emerging technologies and many other AI-related topics. Suleyman thinks that AI and biotechnology will soon enable small groups to cause harm on previously unimaginable scales. While the technology could provide humans with many benefits, such as eliminating the need to work to live, future generations of AI may 'go rogue' and cause harm to people. This may become a legitimate concern within the next 12 years.
There are many definitions of what success is - this article discusses how to figure out if you authentically want something and set your own success criteria.
The paid service, which is still under consideration and may not be released, is an attempt by Meta to quell concerns by the EU around data privacy and ads.
An article about Bézier curves that aims to give readers a deeper understanding of web animations.
This article takes a look at the world of semiconductor manufacturing.
Content creators are uploading fewer long-form videos.
Most digital information will be lost in just a few decades - preserving modern records is becoming an increasing concern.
Tesla has officially unveiled its Model 3 refresh. Updates include a 'facelifted' front-end design, more screen space, and increased range. The company claims that more than half the parts of the vehicle were replaced. It appears that the photo of the new vehicle leaked in April was real. The refreshed Model 3 is now available for order on Tesla's European sites. More details about what was updated are available in the article.
OpenAI is dedicating 20% of its computing power to solve the AI alignment problem by 2027. The AI alignment problem is the idea that AI systems might not have goals that align with those of humans. This may become a significant issue in the future if superintelligent AI systems are developed. This article features an interview with Jan Leike, OpenAI's head of alignment research, where they talk about solving the AI alignment problem and OpenAI's subgoal of building an aligned AI research tool to help solve the alignment problem.
Samsung Food is a culmination of everything that Samsung has been working towards since it released a smart fridge with an Android tablet in 2016. The software can scan food, offer up tailored recipes, and sync kitchen appliances together to create meals. It uses generative AI to create meal plans and build grocery lists. Samsung is planning to create compatible cooktops, microwaves, refrigerators, water filters, and other cooking devices.
Oxygen-28 has been detected for the first time. While the isotope was predicted to be stable, it disintegrated rapidly after creation. Oxygen-28 is an isotope of oxygen with 12 extra neutrons in its nucleus. The new findings mean that physicists might have to update theories of how atomic nuclei are structured.
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Most QA teams are too resource-constrained to maintain an automated end-to-end test suite for their entire product. But costs to scale QA are hard to justify. The end result? Gaps in test coverage and bugs shipped to production. Here's a cost-effective solution. QA Wolf
Croner is Cron for JavaScript and TypeScript. It can trigger functions in JavaScript using Cron syntax, evaluate Cron expressions and get a list of upcoming run times, target different time zones, and more. Croner doesn't require any dependencies. A live demo is available.
React Server Components (RSCs) are React components that run on the server instead of the client. Frameworks that support RSCs allow developers to define where code runs. Server components are able to fetch data from directly within the component and stream that data to the client, making fetching data fast and simple. This article discusses how Mux moved over to using RSCs and covers why Server Components matter, what they're good and bad at, how to use them, how to incrementally adopt them, and the kind of advanced patterns to use to keep RSCs under control.
USENET is a set of text-only social discussion forums run on multiple servers around the world. It is older than the web. This article explains how to access USENET. There are many active free communities available on USENET that cover a huge range of niche topics.
Anguilla is a tiny British island territory in the Caribbean. The country's top-level domain is '.ai'. This appears to be particularly attractive to tech companies. Experts estimate that the country may bring in up to $30 million in revenue this year from its domain. Registrars pay Anguilla $140 for a two-year domain registration, but prices are rising due to demand.
Nushell is designed to be a typechecked language with IDE support and nice error messages.
ChatGPT could be used to help students translate languages clearly and correctly, as a grammar tutor, as an idea generator, and more.
X is planning to collect users' biometric information, employment history, and educational history starting from September 29.