Stripe built a real-time microsite for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2023 to provide detailed insights into its core business using Vercel. The microsite displayed Stripe's reliability, transaction volumes, and global activity during this period. The company used Next.js, SWR, and ISR to create the site fast, and it used strategies like Stale-While-Revalidate (SWR) and Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) to manage real-time data and interactions while minimizing backend queries.
To make your LinkedIn profile better, you should have a high-quality profile picture and a detailed skills list. To stand out and build a stronger LinkedIn network, developers should engage with others and connect with people through direct messages. For the resume, one should focus on describing their measurable impacts at their job and showcase achievements.
This author sold his successful startup because he was seeking freedom from certain aspects of the business. However, after the sale, he found himself lost. He started having trouble with his sense of self and purpose. Now, he recommends people to understand their motivations and values when starting something.
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When your code has a lot of API dependencies, flexible and reliable API mocking [11] becomes crucial. Companies like Ingenico, IBM, and BiltCard use WireMock Cloud [11] to simulate real-world API scenarios (including edge cases and faults), test and deploy new code, and seamlessly move to production when the API is ready.
Tinybench is a small, lightweight benchmarking library for JavaScript.
Maybe is an open-source personal finance app that used to be a (failed) startup. It features net worth tracking, financial account syncing, investment benchmarking, and more. The app is built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Node, Express, and Postgres.
Redux Toolkit has become the standard method for creating Redux apps, reducing boilerplate code and streamlining state management. The key changes in Redux Toolkit 2.0 include modernization, better workflow, dependency updates, and the introduction of new features like lazy loading slices and dynamic middleware.
It’s difficult to represent empty slices of memory in languages like C, C++, and Rust. The differences in rules and behaviors in these languages can cause compatibility issues when working with Foreign Function Interfaces (FFIs). To make empty slices less complicated, Rust needs to improve its slice representation and have FFI helpers introduced into its standard library.
OpenAI built its initial moat on the cost of training large models because the general perception in the industry was that large models meant higher performance. However, the Chinchilla paper (published by Google DeepMind researchers) proved that bigger models are not necessarily better. Now, OpenAI is defending its moat by creating network effects around ChatGPT with the release of the GPT Store, ChatGPT Plugins, and the ChatGPT Team plan for enterprises.
Apple made a major change to its US iOS App Store policies that now allows developers to direct customers to non-App Store purchasing options for digital products. However, Apple still intends to collect a hefty 12-27% commission on revenue that’s brought in this way.
Chrome for Developers provides a guide for automating browser testing for Web AI applications and other applications that utilize WebGPU and WebGL.
It’s important to dig deeper when asking questions to uncover users' true needs when building tools for developers. The litmus test for dev tools usually is if it exists in a big company but doesn’t externally.
Elon Musk has shared a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot folding a shirt. The project has come a long way since a very early prototype was shown at Tesla AI Day 2022. Tesla aims to eventually have the robot in people's homes performing a wide range of tasks, but it first plans to have them in its own manufacturing operations for repetitive and or dangerous tasks. The video of the robot folding a shirt is available in the article.
2024.01.16·electrek.co·3 min read·TLDR YouTube appears to be slowing down the site for ad-block users. Turning off ad blockers immediately improves loading performance for affected users. The ad-block detection causes strange issues, like a lag that makes full-screen and comments not work or Chrome being unable to load other webpages while YouTube is open. The slowdowns may be due to ad blockers altering YouTube's code and unrelated to YouTube.
2024.01.16·arstechnica.com·1 min read·TLDR Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson SEAS have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged in minutes and lasts at least 6,000 charging cycles. Lithium metal batteries offer far better energy density and much lower weight than their lithium-ion counterparts. The team has a list of other materials that could potentially yield similar performance. The technology has been licensed through a Harvard spinoff company that has scaled it up to build a smartphone-sized pouch cell battery.
2024.01.16·pv-magazine.com·4 min read·TLDR An international team of neuroscientists has identified five distinct subtypes of Alzheimer's disease. The finding has breakthrough implications for treatment approaches and efficacy. The subtypes can be identified by the categories of fluid surrounding the brains of patients. Each of the five subtypes is linked to a unique genetic risk profile. They reveal different molecular pathways to what has traditionally been considered as one overall disease.
2024.01.16·newatlas.com·5 min read·TLDR Sponsored
QA Wolf [9] gets web apps to 80% automated test coverage in just 4 months. And they guarantee zero flakes [9]. They build and maintain your test suite in Playwright + include unlimited parallel test runs on their infrastructure.
Surya is a multilingual document OCR toolkit that can provide accurate line-level text detection. Text recognition and table and chart detection are coming soon. Surya works on a range of documents and languages.
2024.01.16·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR One of the easiest ways to accidentally spend too much money on AWS is by carelessly transferring data. Any application that involves sending data between resources in different availability zones will incur such charges. These prices easily add up and are an extremely high-margin source of profit for cloud providers. This article looks at how to set up cross-availability zone infrastructure without paying for data transfer costs. It suggests using S3, which already replicates data between availability zones as part of its service.
2024.01.16·bitsand.cloud·8 min read·TLDR Elon Musk said on Monday that he wants about 25% of voting control over Tesla. Musk already owns around 13% of the company. He says that he is uncomfortable growing Tesla to be a leader in AI and robotics without having the control. He wants to be influential, but not so much that he can't be overturned. The bid for more control will add to the pressure on Tesla's board of directors, who is already facing investor concerns over several issues, including Musk's split focus, the use of company resources, and federal probes.
People with a lot of coding experience and good referrals are suddenly finding it hard to get employed. The job market has been difficult for many job seekers. It appears that companies are looking for very specific skills. The market is much slower than it was between 2020-2022. Several commenters in this thread provide CV and job-searching advice for those struggling to find work.
2024.01.16·news.ycombinator.com·TLDR LCD monitors have been pushing 500Hz for around a year now, and multiple OLED monitors hitting speeds of 360Hz and 480Hz were introduced at CES 2024.
2024.01.16·theverge.com·5 min read·TLDR Gaining knowledge about hardware is equally important to learning code - this post by a software engineer explains how they learned how to build a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster and set up the network for it.
2024.01.16·fangpenlin.com·10 min read·TLDR Image compression algorithms are generally good at finding patterns in images and squashing them down - it looks like they're a pretty efficient way to compress ASCII text as well.
2024.01.16·shkspr.mobi·3 min read·TLDR Apple plans to split the Apple Store in the EU from the rest of the world by March 7.
2024.01.16·macrumors.com·1 min read·TLDR Copilot Pro, which provides access to AI-powered features inside Office apps, is launching today as a $20 monthly subscription.
2024.01.16·theverge.com·3 min read·TLDR A deeper look into a recent study where researchers tried and failed to remove 'sleeper agents' from AI.
2024.01.16·astralcodexten.com·13 min read·TLDR Microsoft has launched Copilot Pro, a premium version of its Bing Chat experience, priced at $20 per month per user. This advanced version integrates across devices, offers access to Microsoft 365 apps, features the latest AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, and includes enhanced AI image creation.
2024.01.16·searchengineland.com·2 min read·TLDR AI OpenAI is gearing up for the 2024 elections by preventing AI abuse, enhancing transparency in AI-generated content, and ensuring access to reliable voting information, thereby safeguarding election integrity.
2024.01.16·openai.com·3 min read·TLDR AI Researchers have developed INTERS, a new dataset designed to improve how large language models like LLaMA and Mistral handle information retrieval tasks.
2024.01.16·arxiv.org·18 min read·TLDR AI This paper Introduces ConvFormer, a novel Convolutional Transformer layer designed for lightweight image super-resolution tasks. This new technique effectively replaces self-attention modules with large kernel convolutions, allowing for efficient modeling of long-range dependencies with minimal computational costs.
2024.01.16·arxiv.org·12 min read·TLDR AI A new graph relation distillation technique improves instance segmentation. This method efficiently transfers knowledge from larger, complex networks to smaller, high-performing ones, focusing on three key areas: instance features, their relationships, and pixel-level boundaries.
2024.01.16·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI of your codebase to explain, fix, and help you write code. Sourcegraph’s code graph [10] allows Cody to autocomplete, explain, and edit your code with much richer context [10].
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2024.01.16·sourcegraph.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI HiCMAE is a novel self-supervised learning framework designed to enhance Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition (AVER). This approach overcomes data scarcity challenges by using large-scale pre-training on unlabeled audio-visual data.
2024.01.16·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI This project suggests a new compression technique for LLMs using Multi-Codebook Quantization (MCQ). The method, adapted from Additive Quantization, sets a new standard in LLM compression, achieving higher accuracy at lower bit counts.
2024.01.16·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI This project introduces RotationDrag, a new method that improves point-based image editing, especially when users want to rotate elements within the image.
2024.01.16·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Nous Research has released SFT and DPO versions of the powerful Mixtral model. It excels at a number of tasks and is freely available on the Together API.
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) stands to revolutionize productivity and growth globally, but also poses risks of job displacement and increased inequality. An IMF analysis shows that nearly 40% of global employment could be impacted by AI, with advanced economies facing both higher risks and opportunities compared to emerging markets and developing countries.
2024.01.16·imf.org·6 min read·TLDR AI The rapid evolution of AI in education is promising, yet it's unlikely to solve pressing educational problems soon, as experienced during a week-long experiential learning trip with 9th graders. While AI offers innovative curriculum and learning enhancement, addressing deeper issues like emotional well-being, student engagement, and trust in education remains crucial.
2024.01.16·nickpotkalitsky.substack.com·9 min read·TLDR AI Sponsored
In a recent panel hosted by Dow Jones Factiva, experts from academia and industry discussed novel ways to generate alpha from financial
2024.01.16·dowjones.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI GGUF is a format for running models with llama cpp and supports a number of quantization types. This notebook automates the quantization, which may not work in the general case, but works for most models.
2024.01.16·colab.research.google.com·TLDR AI LEGO, a new end-to-end multimodal grounding model, demonstrates advanced abilities in comprehending and grounding tasks across different modalities like images, audio, and videos.
2024.01.16·lzw-lzw.github.io·3 min read·TLDR AI Transform your inbox into a hub of efficiency.