TLDR 2023-02-10

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Microsoft recently announced its new version of the Bing search engine, which will be powered by OpenAI. OpenAI's technology running in Bing and Edge has the potential to radically increase productivity. This article features an interview with Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella. In the interview, Nadella talks about the new integration, Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, and why he thinks now is the best time to go after Google Search.

Google is scrambling to ship its AI products. The company was beaten to market in a field it should have dominated by a relatively small startup. This article talks about the history of Google, AI, and how Google ended up falling behind in the AI boom. Google had declared itself to be an 'AI-first' company in 2016. It had a similar technology to ChatGPT called LaMDA two years ago. Google had many reasons to keep its AI work under wraps. The company plans to integrate more AI into its products, starting with its own chatbot called Bard.

SpaceX ignited its Super Heavy rocket for a 'full duration' test of its Raptor engines at around 3:15 PM local time in South Texas. During the test, one engine turned off prior to ignition and another stopped itself. The remaining 31 engines would have provided enough thrust to reach orbit. The successful completion of the test means that SpaceX is on track for an orbital test flight in late March or early April.

Tokamak Energy has unveiled a set of 'super' magnets designed for testing nuclear fusion power plants. The Demo4 magnet has a magnetic field strength nearly one million times that of the Earth's magnetic field. It is capable of controlling the hot plasma generated during the fusion process. Tokamak aims to demonstrate grid-ready fusion in the early 2030s.

Edge functions should run quickly. But with a traditional centralized database, the benefits of edge computing are lost in slow network connections.

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Levels.fyi, a career site with 1-2 million unique site visitors every month, started in 2017 without a backend. The company used Google Forms and Google Sheets to move fast in releasing its initial version. It decided on this strategy to focus more on the product/idea fit, save effort and money on setting up an API and database server, and to save effort on operational maintenance. This post looks at Levels.fyi's strategy and what the company learned from building a dynamic site without a database or API server.

Team Discussions will soon be deprecated on GitHub. There are individual sunset timelines for GitHub.com, API, and GHES users. Maintainers can easily migrate existing Team Discussions to Organization Discussion by clicking a banner on the top of their Team Discussions page. Organization Discussions now includes features such as Categories, Category forms, Threaded comments, Q&A features, Polls, and Labels. Any unmigrated Team Discussions will be available as read-only raw text following deprecation.

This Hacker News thread checks in on laid-off workers to see how they are going. Some companies are reporting that while they are actively hiring, recently laid-off workers weren't interested in working for them. The layoffs have affected employees of various levels differently, and not all that were laid off were bottom performers. There are many replies from job searchers who have had a rough time trying to find a new position.

Tech giants are scrambling to release AI products to catch up with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Deep-learning networks look to be the next frontier of the commercial internet. Generative AI is set to become the overlay for many human activities. One of the most vital skills of the 21st century could be effectively talking to machines. Users will have to know how to guide machines in order to use these new tools effectively.

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This tutorial shows how to implement GPT from scratch in 60 lines of numpy and how to load trained model weights into the implementation to generate text.

scrt is a command-line secret manager with an intuitive interface designed for developers, sysdmins, and devops.

ChatGPT retains much of the information on the Web, but it can only give an approximation of that information.

The FCC has authorized Amazon to send 3,236 satellites to orbit to begin Project Kuiper's satellite internet operations.

A recently published study used computer simulations to model various scenarios where massive quantities of dust are used to reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches Earth.

GitHub will also continue its hiring freeze and make other internal changes to protect the short-term health of its business.

OneBridge Benefits is hiring a Software Engineer to add features and maintain software solutions using Microsoft .NET and other related technologies for a premier healthtech company servicing over 250,000 participants with over 2 billion dollars in health accounts.

TLDR Media is hiring a Newsletter Curator to curate the most interesting stories in Crypto 5 days a week for a daily crypto newsletter with over 200,000 subscribers.

Linea is hiring a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer to build a front-end system and webservices for a fast-growing company of explorers, engineers, and scientists.