TLDR 2024-05-29

Lithium is essential for the batteries used in EVs. With every automaker transitioning their fleet to fully electric, demand is expected to increase 20x by 2040, far outstripping current supply.

⚡ EnergyX has developed patented tech that can extract 300% more lithium than current methods. The company has opened its investment round to the public but only for a limited time — here's what you need to know:

• $89M+ invested to date, including General Motors leading a $50 million round
• $5M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy
• Strategic agreements in place with top lithium producers
• Nearly 100 patents across 19 patent families

Don't miss your chance to invest in the lithium gold rush before the boom.

OpenAI has announced the formation of a new Safety and Security Committee to oversee risk management for its projects and operations. The company recently began training its next frontier model. The new Safety and Security Committee will be responsible for making recommendations about AI safety to the full company board of directors. It will be responsible for processes and safeguards related to alignment research, protecting children, upholding election integrity, assessing societal impacts, and implementing security measures.

API documentation from Google Search was recently leaked. The 2,500-page document contained 14,014 attributes that appear to come from Google's internal Content API Warehouse. While it doesn't show things like the weight of particular elements in the search ranking algorithm or prove which elements are used in the ranking systems, it shows incredible details about the data Google collects. This article looks at the leak and extracts some of the most interesting details, for example, how Google utilized cookie history, logged-in Chrome data, and pattern detection to fight manual and automated click spam.

Over 900 people attended last year's Conference on Robot Learning, which featured 11 workshops and almost 200 accepted papers. One of the largest debates at the event was whether training a large neural network on a very large data set was a feasible way to solve robotics. This post presents the different sides of the argument to deepen people's understanding of the debate. Scaling has worked for other similar fields. However, it is impractical as there isn't much robotics data available and there's no clear way to get it. Even if scaling works as well as in other fields, it likely still won't solve robotics.

Precision Neuroscience claims to have set a new record for the number of neuron-tapping electrodes placed on a living human's brain at 4,096. The high density of electrodes allowed neuroscientists to map the activity of neurons at an unprecedented resolution during a surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. Precision's device sits on top of the brain and does not penetrate the brain at all. It consists of a film that contains 1,024 electrodes embedded in a lattice pattern. The device is modular, allowing for multiple films to be used at once - four devices were used during the surgery.

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The common practice of redirecting API calls from HTTP to HTTPS should be reconsidered. Many programmatic API clients don't keep browser-like state of things like HSTS headers they have seen. The usability-security tradeoff argument doesn't apply as APIs are mostly consumed by other software. HTTP interfaces should be disabled entirely or return clear error responses for unencrypted requests. API credentials sent over unencrypted connections should be considered compromised and revoked.

A process taking two, three, or five times as long as estimated is much more common when learning is involved. It is almost never the case in software development that you know all or even most of the technical hurdles that you will face in the process of development. This throws everything we know about traditional project management into disarray. Knowing your tooling and having enough experience can help you provide better estimates.

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed new details about what led to CEO Sam Altman's ousting in November in a recent interview. The board had apparently learned about ChatGPT's release on Twitter. Toner says that Altman had lied to the board multiple times. Altman was reportedly withholding information and misrepresenting things that were happening in the company for years. His lies made it difficult for the board to make decisions, leading them to think that he wasn't the right person to lead the company to AGI.

This Hacker News thread discusses what developers would choose to do for their ideal job. The answers range from large, world-benefiting schemes to personal projects and just doing nothing. Some of the answers are from people who have retired or are about to retire.

YouTube has rolled out over 75 games playable directly on the platform previously only available to Premium members.

Keeping a diary is a good way to think out problems and you can also feed the diary to a large language model and ask it questions.

YouTube is testing tactics like slowing down video load times, skipping videos, muting videos, and pausing videos to push users towards Premium.

Nvidia is reportedly preparing a system-on-chip that pairs Arm's Cortex-X5 core design with GPUs based on Nvidia's Blackwell architecture.

Serving 429 responses to RSS clients that hit a feed too often resulted in the uncovering of several bugs and helped some developers improve their software.

PayPal's new advertising platform will be built on purchase information and customer spending habits from PayPal and its sister app Venmo.