TLDR 2024-10-10

On October 30th, WorkOS is bringing together the tech folks who are building enterprise SaaS. This is a highly-curated, closely-vetted event where you will:

→ Hear from leaders who successfully crossed the enterprise chasm at companies like Dropbox, Slack, Asana, OpenAI, and more.

→ Network with a community of builders and share learnings from your own journey to becoming Enterprise Ready.

→ Learn about enterprise features like advanced identity management, compliance, encryption, logging, and fine-grained authorization.

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Tesla plans to reveal its Robotaxi today at an event at Warner Bros. Discovery's movie studio in Burbank, California, starting at 7 pm. The vehicle will be a two-door, two-seater, Cybertruck-like compact vehicle likely without a steering wheel or pedals. Tesla may run into regulatory issues for the design - Elon Musk is expected to use this as a reason for why getting the vehicle to market will be difficult. The movie studio features large sound stages and sets. The environment is closed and controlled, with no other traffic, making it the perfect place for Tesla to demo its new technology.

The Department of Justice has indicated that it is considering behavioral and structural remedies as a result of its monopoly ruling against Google. The remedies could include contract requirements and prohibitions, non-discrimination product requirements, data and interoperability requirements, and structural requirements. They may include limiting or prohibiting default agreements and other revenue-sharing arrangements related to search and search-related products. The remedies are still far from being decided - Judge Amit Mehta says he'll aim to rule on the remedies by August 2025, and an appeal by Google will likely draw out any impact for potentially years.

Google has published a paper that identifies a phase transition in its quantum processor and uses it to identify conditions where the processor can operate with low noise. The paper shows that it would take a supercomputer a dozen years to simulate things even in those conditions. This article details the findings and their implications in more detail.

Zap Energy recently raised a $130 million Series D to build its Century device, an approach to fusion power that sends bolts of electricity through plasma streams instead of using magnets or lasers to squeeze the plasma. The current generates a magnetic field that compresses the plasma, which results in fusion. The final commercial-scale model, which should produce 50 megawatts of electricity, will occupy a footprint around the size of a double-decker bus. This article provides an overview of how Zap's technology works and the problems the company has to overcome before its technology becomes commercially viable.

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Deno is a modern, all-in-one, zero-configuration toolchain for JavaScript and TypeScript development. The recently announced Deno 2 update includes backwards compatibility with Node.js and npm, native support for package.json and node_modules, a stabilized standard library, support for private npm registries, work spaces and monorepo support, and more. This article highlights the main changes. Links to resources to learn more about Deno are available.

Dicts make functions difficult to modify and their mutable nature hinders the structure of data and makes it dependent on the workflow of applications. This article discusses some better ways to handle data. The longer a developer postpones introducing proper data structures, the more complex the transition becomes.

This site contains an interactive heatmap of total compensation pay ranges for software engineers across the US. It provides insights on salary percentiles, breaks down total compensation components, and reveals top-paying companies. The data is organized by DMA regions and accompanied by a color-coded legend.

The Internet Archive was hacked and defaced with a notification telling users their information was stolen. Have I Been Pwned? received a file containing email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data for 31 million unique email addresses from the attackers and confirmed that it was valid by matching data with a user's account. The Internet Archive also experienced a DDOS attack, which has been fended off for now - the attackers implied that another attack has been planned.

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Dietary restriction boosts longevity due to favorable metabolic changes.

Amazon's next-generation fulfillment center located in Shreveport, Louisiana, will employ 2,500 humans once fully ramped up.

TLDR is hiring a RevOps lead to own forecasting, analytics, and automation for our revenue team. Learn more.

Computer scientists are changing how natural sciences are studied, promising a new era of discovery and efficiency, but we have yet to see this era in concrete terms.

The Release Candidate clarifies that all training data needs to be shared and disclosed.

Annual losses could rise as high as $14 billion in 2026, with the company expecting to spend about $200 billion minus stock compensations through the end of the decade.

This post contains a list of factors for aging that are under investigation and what you can do about each.