The claim that learning C teaches you "how computers work" is inaccurate because C operates within its own abstract machine, not directly on the hardware. However, learning C can provide great insights into computer architecture and operating systems, as the C abstract machine closely maps to these elements. For programmers primarily using higher-level languages, learning C can be valuable to understanding how their code interacts with the underlying machine.
This author analyzed 10,000+ comments on Hacker News' "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" threads using GPT-4o and LangChain to understand current job market trends. They found that remote work remains popular, visa sponsorship is still competitive, and there's a growing demand for experienced (8+ years of experience) developers.
LetsForm makes React form development easier with JSON schemas and native UI components (Material UI, Ant Design, etc.). It eliminates boilerplate code, offers visual design tools, and provides features like validation, dynamic forms, and pre-built templates.
Browspilot is a Chrome extension that provides full-text search of your browsing history.
Boring UI takes in a JSON object and a prompt, then generates a UI for it.
.DS_Store, which stands for "Desktop Services Store," was originally created to store metadata like icon positions and folder settings for the Mac OS X Finder. The name was chosen because there were plans to make the Finder backend a public API called Desktop Services. However, due to a bug, .DS_Store files are now excessively created even when users don't change view settings. The Desktop Services API was never fully released.
The AI industry is facing a $600 billion question about revenue generation, despite huge investments in AI infrastructure. While the GPU supply shortage has eased and stockpiles are growing, OpenAI still dominates AI revenue. Although AI is predicted to be a transformative technology, there are still tons of problems to work through, like its lack of pricing power, investment wastage, and rapid semiconductor depreciation.
Dovetail is a customer insights platform that grew through focusing on small improvements, identifying under-served customer segments, and expanding their marketing channels strategically. It integrates with existing tools and uses AI strategically. Dovetail was developed with a design-led approach.
Jeffrey Snover, the architect behind PowerShell, overcame resistance within Microsoft's culture to create PowerShell, which transformed Windows system administration.
To fight distractions, software developers should have “do-nothing” days for routine tasks and "flow days" for peak productivity.
This author presents an optimized matrix multiplication implementation in C that follows the BLIS design which outperforms NumPy's OpenBLAS implementation on an AMD Ryzen 7700 processor by efficiently utilizing SIMD instructions and multi-threading.
GitHub searches and shows the entire corpus of users when adding a user to a repository.
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2024.07.04·drinklmnt.com·Sponsor·TLDR noplace, an app that aims to bring the 'social' back to 'social media', has surged to the top of the iOS App Store. Launched out of invite-only mode on Wednesday, the app allows users to have colorful customizable profiles and share everything from relationship status to what they're listening or watching, what they're reading or doing, and more. It focuses on text-based updates and currently doesn't support photos or videos. The app offers a feed with friends and another global feed from everyone in the app - both are in reverse chronological order. It uses AI technology to drive suggestions and creation and create summaries for things users may have missed.
2024.07.04·techcrunch.com·6 min read·TLDR Threads has reached more than 175 million monthly active users. Launched on the App Store last year on July 5, the app is still growing steadily. Meta hasn't shared daily user numbers, suggesting that Threads is getting a lot of traffic from people who have yet to become regular users. Much of the app's growth is still coming from it being promoted inside Instagram. Meta is considering turning on ads in Threads sometime next year.
2024.07.04·theverge.com·3 min read·TLDR Polaris Dawn, a mission designed to purchase the limits of SpaceX's technology and help pave the way for a longer-term human presence in space, is now set to launch no earlier than July 12. It will be SpaceX's second all-civilian mission and the first in its Polaris program. The mission plans include the first commercial spacewalk, research on human health in space, and tests to equip the spacecraft with Starlink Wi-Fi. It will reach an orbit of over 800 miles above Earth, the furthest out a human has gone from the planet since the Apollo era.
2024.07.04·popsci.com·4 min read·TLDR Generic versions of Wegovy, Saxenda, Ozempic, and Victoza are set to hit the market soon at a lower cost than the original drugs. Patents for liraglutide, which is in Victoza and Saxenda, have expired. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest generic drugmaker, has already launched a generic version of Victoza in the US. Pfizer, Viatris' Mylan, and Novartis' Sandoz are also planning to launch their own generic liraglutide products. Ozempic and Wegovy will lose patent protection in China in 2026, in Europe and Japan in 2031, and in the US in 2032.
2024.07.04·theguardian.com·8 min read·TLDR Cloudflare is now offering its web hosting customers a way to block AI bots from scraping website content and using the data without permission to train machine learning models. It is able to recognize bot activity even when operators lie about their user agent. The bot detection approach relies on digital fingerprinting. With a network that sees an average of 57 million requests per second, Cloudflare has ample data to determine which fingerprints can be trusted.
2024.07.04·theregister.com·3 min read·TLDR Before getting into AI development, first decide whether you want to train models from scratch or build cool things on top of AI models. Knowing how to train models may not be that useful when working with generative AI - it's better to develop knowledge in other areas like prompting, evals, and using models to build production-quality apps. Calling an API is going to work better than dedicating a team to tune a private model before scaling in most cases. It is possible to obtain an AI research position without a PhD, but it will take years of study.
2024.07.04·news.ycombinator.com·TLDR AI will likely create a huge amount of economic value. Speculative frenzies are part of the technology and not something to be afraid of. Those who remain level-headed have the chance to build extremely important companies. However, not everyone is going to get rich soon because AGI is coming. There is still a long road ahead with lots of ups and downs before that happens.
2024.07.04·sequoiacap.com·6 min read·TLDR There is a barely concealed network of buyers, sellers, and couriers bypassing the restrictions aimed at denying China's access to Nvidia's advanced AI chips. The flow of hardware is so steady that most of the sellers take preorders and promise delivery in weeks. Some even sell entire servers. Research institutions have been among the main buyers of the advanced AI chips. The market will likely remain robust and adaptive until viable domestically-made chips emerge in China.
2024.07.04·links.tldrnewsletter.com·10 min read·TLDR Version 67 of Horizon OS has an experimental feature that allows Quest owners to multitask with up to six virtual windows.
2024.07.04·theverge.com·2 min read·TLDR The latest cuts impacted multiple teams and geographies, particularly those in product and program management roles.
2024.07.04·geekwire.com·2 min read·TLDR 2024.07.04·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR Japan's government has eliminated the use of floppy disks in all of its systems and scrapped all regulations governing their use, except for one environmental stricture related to vehicle recycling.
2024.07.04·arstechnica.com·3 min read·TLDR Most AI infrastructure startups have ideas that sound reasonable on the surface but fail to hold up to reality or rigorous thought.
2024.07.04·nextword.substack.com·10 min read·TLDR 'The burden of knowledge' is a theory that new ideas are getting harder to find because people have to spend more time learning old ideas before they're ready to expand to the frontier.
2024.07.04·theseedsofscience.pub·11 min read·TLDR xAI's next model is slated for August. It reportedly took 20k H100s to train. Grok 3 is rumored for the end of the year and potentially requires 100k H100s.
2024.07.04·links.tldrnewsletter.com·1 min read·TLDR AI Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang attributes the company's AI chip market dominance, maintaining an over 80% market share despite rising competition, to a decade-old strategic investment. Advocating for Nvidia's AI chips' cost-effectiveness and performance, Huang highlights the firm's transformation into a data center-focused entity and expansion into new markets.
2024.07.04·cnbc.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Jerry Pratt, former CTO of Figure, has partnered with Nic Radford, former president and CEO of Nauticus Robotics, Inc., to found Persona AI, a new humanoid robotics firm in early development. Despite a saturated market, Persona aims to attract investors and 10 to 20 founder-level employees with a vision strongly resting on current AI breakthroughs in perception algorithms, onboard electronics, and machine learning. The startup distinguishes itself by choosing headquarters in Houston and Pensacola rather than traditional robotics hubs.
2024.07.04·techcrunch.com·3 min read·TLDR AI Great lecture from Sasha Rush, a professor at Cornell Tech and researcher at Hugging Face, about using diffusion as an objective for language modeling.
Kyutai, a French open research lab, has trained a pure audio LLM with minimal latency. It has managed to create a really impressive demo that will be open sourced in the coming months.
2024.07.04·kyutai.org·3 min read·TLDR AI Researchers have developed a method to reconstruct 3D scenes from a single blurry image using neural radiance fields (NeRF) and event streams. This innovative approach models camera motion and synthesizes brightness changes, enabling high-quality, view-consistent images from blurry inputs without needing pre-computed camera poses.
2024.07.04·arxiv.org·22 min read·TLDR AI Work that can solve 24%+ on SWE-bench with just a language model and no agents.
2024.07.04·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI MInference is a new method that accelerates the processing of long prompts in large language models. It uses sparse computation techniques to overcome the significant delays caused by traditional methods.
2024.07.04·hqjiang.com·6 min read·TLDR AI This project proposes a new method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease using 3D MRI scans that enhances the explainability of model decisions.
2024.07.04·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Manual for resolving torch.compile errors to make your code run faster.
2024.07.04·docs.google.com·65 min read·TLDR AI This AI-focused playbook outlines strategies for enterprise adoption of AI, highlighting the shift from human-performed services to software-driven workflows termed "Service-as-a-software." It delves into the implications for business models, such as performance-based pricing, and emphasizes the importance of workflow capture and AI accuracy for successful implementation. The guide also discusses threats like lateral attacks and stresses the need for AI to demonstrate clear performance, not just promise, in enterprise settings.
2024.07.04·links.tldrnewsletter.com·24 min read·TLDR AI Enterprises shifting IT budgets toward AI proof-of-concept projects challenge customer support software companies like Salesforce and Zendesk. The growing integration of tools like ChatGPT in customer support has increased customer acquisition costs for traditional software providers, extending payback periods. The future investment in customer support software depends on these companies' innovation and the broader macroeconomic environment.
2024.07.04·amritaroy.substack.com·10 min read·TLDR AI Meta released models for its multi-token-prediction model that showed really strong performance.
A framework for Claude Opus that intelligently orchestrates subagents.
2024.07.04·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI A novel AI technology uses facial expression recognition to detect strokes by analyzing facial muscle movements and asymmetry.
2024.07.04·rmit.edu.au·2 min read·TLDR AI Bitwise has filed an amended S-1 form for its Ethereum ETF, potentially allowing the product to launch as soon as next week, pending SEC approval. Analysts suggest that the listing, which follows the SEC's earlier approval of 19b-4 forms for eight Ethereum ETFs in May, could happen by mid-July.
Former President Donald Trump has voiced strong support for Bitcoin, suggesting it could serve as a strategic reserve asset to bolster the U.S. economy and counter geopolitical rivals like China and Russia. This stance aligns with other political figures advocating for Bitcoin's inclusion in national reserves, sparking discussions on its potential to curb inflation and enhance economic resilience.
Flashbots has released a new block builder in the Rust programming language. It builds mainnet blocks in less than 100ms, 10x faster than the geth builder, with an average fill time of 20ms. It is now open-source.
This post discusses the difficulties of distributing tokens in crypto, specifically focusing on the issues of different distribution methods (points, airdrops, etc.) and the regulatory hurdles that come with token sales. Infinex plans to use a non-fungible governance token sold based on early participation on a platform/protocol to fairly distribute governance while also circumnavigating regulatory complexities.
Crypto market conditions are more sophisticated than "bull/bear markets". A more sophisticated approach that acknowledges the complexity of crypto's high volatility and varied investment timeframes is needed. Investing success comes from navigating market inflection points and adapting strategies based on evolving conditions, rather than sticking to standard bull/bear market positions.
L2s (Layer 2 solutions) inherit the security properties of Ethereum, addressing concerns about their similarity to centralized servers. They achieve re-org resistance, censorship resistance, data availability, and transaction validity by posting data batches to Ethereum, ensuring that any malicious attempts would require compromising Ethereum itself.
Last week, RFK Jr supporters launched the first "PolitiCoin", named $JUNIOR, a cryptocurrency supporting RFK's campaign. The coin has a unique supply of 47 million — symbolizing RFK Jr's aspiration to become the 47th President. A 1% transaction fee is included on all trades to directly fund his campaign. All liquidity is locked.