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Developers share their side projects making more than $500 per month in this Hacker News thread. Links to yearly threads on the same theme going back to 2020 are available in the original post. The projects include a grounded adapter to stop Apple devices from slightly buzzing when plugged in, a GUI app for Kubernetes, and a template marketplace.
A study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory looked at how feasible it is that AI will perform certain roles and how likely businesses are to actually replace workers with AI tech - it found that most jobs being identified as at risk of AI displacement can't currently be automated economically.
Apple is now said to be focusing on driver-assistance features that are closer to how Tesla vehicles operate - its autonomous driving system will have steering and brake/acceleration support, but drivers will still remain in control of the car and must pay attention on the road.
Brex, which was once valued at $12.3 billion, is laying off about 282 staff today as the company is now emphasizing long-term thinking and ownership over short-term gains.
A modular scale is a mathematical rule that can be used to create intentional and harmonious typography sizing.
eBay recently paid a $3 million criminal penalty as part of a settlement related to a cyberstalking and harassment campaign conducted by a group of former employees.
Securing the rights to content might mean that Netflix subscribers may see another price hike in the future, whether they like that content or not.
The AI voice company has raised funding to continue its voice cloning, dub studio, and other AI-enabled audio work.
Google is enhancing Chrome with AI features, including a writing assistant for composing various texts online, an automated tab organizer for managing multiple open tabs, and a custom theme creator using a text-to-image diffusion model.
Another preference optimization technique now applied to machine translation. It is more data efficient than DPO on this task. Importantly, the objective discouraged the model from proposing adequate but inaccurate translations, which enabled the model to achieve competitive performance on WMT.
Reward models are used in RLHF to represent human preference, although the model being aligned often “hacks the reward” and achieves unfavorable performance. By merging multiple reward models, which remain linearly mode connected, the resulting aligned model is preferred 79% of the time over one aligned with a single reward model. Model merging is strange, and may just be regularization, but it has worked surprisingly well in general models and now has been shown to work as a training step for the general language model pipeline.
This technical report presents MMCBench, a new benchmark designed to test the consistency and reliability of large multimodal models (LMMs) across various tasks like text-to-image and speech-to-text. It covers over 100 popular models, aiming to improve readers' understanding of these AI systems' performance in real-world scenarios.
A very strong new Mistral tune that uses clever weak supervision and synthetic data to generate a DPO-compatible dataset. The outlined process can be repeated a number of times and applied to a wide variety of enterprise use cases.
ColBERT is one of the better embedding models for retrieval. It is worth exploring and using since many are building RAG-enabled AI applications. This implementation is a simple and straightforward replication without the performance optimizations and their added complexity. It uses BERT from HuggingFace but achieves essentially identical performance to the original implementation.
This project introduces RPG, a new framework that uses the “Recaption, Plan, and Generate” approach to improve text-to-image generation. It cleverly breaks down complex image creation into simpler tasks, leading to more accurate and detailed images, especially when dealing with multiple objects and attributes.
A quick read about hardware-specific matrix multiplication optimizations and a general process to follow to speed up AI code.
Elon Musk and Larry Page fundamentally disagree about AI's potential risks, with Page labeling Musk a "speciesist" for preferring humans over digital life forms, leading to a rift in their friendship. This reflects the broader debate on AI's impact, encompassing concerns about consciousness, individuation, art, science, philosophy, and the possibility of human-AI mergers, and highlights the need for cautious and thoughtful development of AI technologies.
SyncTalk is a breakthrough in the realm of realistic talking head videos. It overcomes previous challenges in synchronizing facial identity, lip movements, and expressions.
AI meeting notes for managers that Capture meeting notes, track decisions, and automate follow-ups.
A leaderboard comparing LLM performance at producing hallucinations when summarizing short documents.
Anthropic researchers found that AI can be trained to deceive, and they’re really good at it.
The infamous defunct crypto exchange, Mt. Gox, is reportedly moving forward with customer repayments following its 2014 hack which resulted in a loss of 850,000 BTC. Some former clients have reported receiving emails requesting verification of identity and account details. Bitcoin has been faltering in recent weeks due to sell pressure from GBTC. This provides another potential overhang for the market to digest.
Coinbase has unveiled plans to diversify Ethereum execution clients due to increasing concerns over the dominance of Geth. Geth's overwhelming dominance has raised security issues, as a bug could potentially disrupt a large portion of the Ethereum network. This announcement comes after a recent incident where provider Nethermind's validators went offline due to a bug issue. An official update from Coinbase is expected by the end of February.
Magic Eden is rolling out a long-term cross-chain NFT rewards program. Starting with Solana, from February 2, Magic Eden will give out Retroactive Diamond Drops for past activities since 2021. Magic Ticket owners will also be included in the reward system. The rewards program will extend to Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polygon, honoring all past, present, and future activity on those chains.
The gaming industry, with a $282 billion market value, is entering the web3 era. Blockchain technology enables web3 gaming, bringing blockchain-driven ownership, programmability, and composability to games. The technology is maturing and numerous AA studios are intensifying their web3 gaming endeavors. There are exciting investment opportunities in both horizontal gaming platforms and individual games across various genres.
In the world of DeFi, spotting airdrop opportunities can be one of the best returns on investment and time for crypto participants. This blog walks through some of the best ways to approach airdrop farming. Users can utilize a free airdrop dashboard on platforms like DeFillama to locate potentially profitable airdrops. The value of airdrops can be determined by analyzing the project's community support, funding, and age. Some key metrics to look for in this analysis are high TVLs and solid VC backing.
In this thread, Punk6529 gives tips on how to get a job in crypto. He discourages individuals from jumping into full-time trading as their “job” and instead encourages longer-term investments in the space. He advocates for the “Read, Write, Do” approach to landing a gig in crypto. This allows individuals to dive into the space, understand it, and showcase their understanding, all while maintaining whatever current employment they have.
Janet Yellen may take measures to boost liquidity through issuing short-term Treasury bills, potentially providing a $1 trillion injection to markets. Simultaneously, the Federal Reserve is suggesting rate cuts might occur this year. Stock markets have been rallying, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 reaching new highs. However, Bitcoin's price decline might hint at a possible mini financial crisis if the liquidity provided by the Bank Term Funding Program isn't renewed.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Nick Grossman from Union Square Ventures, one of the premier VC funds in crypto, reflects on the firm’s journey from the time of the dot-com bubble to what the internet has become today. Having invested in 14 funds with more than 230 investments across multiple sectors, USV has consistently embraced changes brought on by technology and societal factors.
EIP-7251, a proposal for Ethereum, aims to increase the max effective balance for validators to 2048 ETH.
2023's consumer crypto surge highlighted the unresolved challenge of establishing reliable digital identities as a key bottleneck for the industry's growth.
Details about the Pixel 9 Pro have been leaked. Renders reveal a phone with redesigned features, flat edges, a new camera bar design, and a slightly smaller 6.5-inch display. While technical specifications are not yet confirmed, these changes may help the Pixel 9 stand out in the competitive smartphone market, with rivals like the Samsung Galaxy S24 and iPhone 16 on the horizon.
The latest beta version of Gboard has a new feature called "Seamless voice typing." With this feature, voice typing will automatically start when the keyboard is shown, eliminating the need to tap a microphone icon manually. This improvement aims to streamline the voice typing process on Android devices and could work with non-Pixel speech-to-text options.
Powered by Epic's Unreal Engine, Ford's new car OS features a 48-inch curved display and 4K graphics that stretch the entire dash. Along with its fantastic screen, the system offers more personalization and modularity, with Android's native OS and 5G wireless connectivity for over-the-air software updates. Each driver can have their own settings and custom display.
There aren’t many native apps for the Vision Pro headset yet, so Apple will need Safari to work well on it to make the headset a success. The browser will come with some platform-specific features, such as the ability to open multiple windows simultaneously and move them around in virtual space and support for WebXR, which could enable more immersive web experiences.
Both iPhone 16 models will get a new camera capture button on the lower right side - right under the user’s forefinger when they flip the phone into landscape mode. It may be pressure and swipe-sensitive for even more control.
Ello, a social network founded by artists and designers, wanted to create a platform for prioritizing community and creativity over advertising revenue. It could not sustain itself financially and was forced to shut down in June 2023.
Use the power of AI to generate color palettes by style from an already-picked color and use it directly in Figma, Illustrator, or Photoshop.
This image upscaler uses AI to upscale up to 8 times the original resolution. It works straight in Figma and is perfect for various image types, including avatars, background images, Midjourney renders, marketing images, and designs.
This Figma plugin simplifies adding variation to your designs by allowing you to randomize multiple variants, including boolean and nested props.
An effective onboarding process can help improve retention since its main objective is introducing core values to users as quickly as possible. User onboarding is about establishing credibility, teaching key features, and motivating regular use until users reach a steady state.
Researchers can automate, streamline, and enhance their workflow with AI-powered tools. There are many platforms available. This handy guide features five options you should consider. It describes them in detail, how to use them, and how much they cost.
In 1999, the Pantone Color Institute began selecting the Color of the Year to illustrate the relationship between culture and color. Its reception may be warmer than it once was.
UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold — backed by research findings and articles by designers and researchers.
Herman Miller’s latest version of its identity guidelines is an excellent example of a well-done style guide. It goes from abstract descriptions of the company's mission to details using color, typography, photography, illustrations, graphic elements, composition, motion, and more.
Alexandria Vernon's studio logo is arguably a character in Wonka as it weaves into the narrative of the protagonist's mother's handwriting. In this post, the artist discusses the wordmark's creation, the letter W's disproportional importance, and how it takes inspiration from Victorian typography.