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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Icefin is a remotely operated robot submarine. It was sent to investigate an area where the Thwaites glacier meets warm ocean water, causing it to start melting. The Thwaites glacier is roughly the size of Britain and currently accounts for four percent of the world sea-level rise each year. Satellite data shows that it is melting increasingly rapidly, and it could eventually raise the world sea level up by more than half a meter. It takes teams whole weeks to get to the glacier, which makes it difficult to study and understand. Before the Icefin expedition, only four other people, the advance party for the Icefin team, have ever been at the front of the glacier. The ice in Antarctica holds 90 percent of the world's freshwater. Researchers hope to find out what is causing the aggressive melting of the Thwaites by using Icefin to study the water underneath the ice." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Antarctica melting: Climate change and the journey to the 'doomsday glacier'" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Genes encoding transcription factors have the ability to amplify and silence thousands of other genes. Explanations for transcription factors have largely eluded scientists. Transposons are genetic elements that can copy themselves and insert those copies throughout the genome using a splicing enzyme they make. A recent study found that transposons had fused with other genes nearly 100 times in tetrapods over the past 300 million years, resulting in many genes likely to encode transcription factors. The study explains how these genes form, implicating transposon activity as the cause." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Scientists Catch Jumping Genes Rewiring Genomes" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ikea and Sonos have been working for years to design and produce a pair of speakers, and they will be available this August. The Symfonisk is a speaker combined with a table lamp, and the bookshelf speaker is the smallest speaker that Sonos has ever made. Both speakers are fully compatible with the rest of Sonos’ range, and Ikea will integrate controls for the speakers into their smart home app. Ikea and Sonos will each handle a different part of the manufacturing process. Sonos will create the speaker parts and ship them to Ikea, who will then further assemble the parts and enclosure." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ikea and Sonos made the ultimate speaker lamp" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Kickstarter will not voluntarily recognize Kickstarter United, its employee-created union, but are opting instead for a National Labor Relations Board election. CEO Aziz Hasan wrote in an email that a union would hurt the company and that the company recognizes the needs of its employees. A union would significantly change the way the company operates, and Hasan was concerned that employees were being pressured by their managers to form opinions regarding the union effort." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Kickstarter will not voluntarily recognize its employee union" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "There are a variety of data sources, including RDB, NoSQL, files like CSV and Excel, JSON, XML, HDFS, Elasticsearch, Kafka, etc. Is there a technology that can effectively handle the multiple/diverse mixed computation issue? Of course. The open-source esProc SPL is exactly what you need." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Which tool is Ideal for diverse source mixed computations" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Tesla announced that it had delivered 95,200 vehicles in the last quarter, making it the best quarter on record for the company. The Model 3 was released in Europe and China halfway through the first quarter, resulting in 77,550 Model 3 deliveries worldwide. A total of 87,048 vehicles were produced in the second quarter. The company is set to increase production and deliveries in the third quarter. Tesla’s sales target for the year is 400,000 vehicles, but it has been cutting prices to reach sales targets, which could result in losses for the company. The federal tax credit available to Tesla customers fell by half at the start of the financial year, which effectively raised the price of the vehicles." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Tesla Says Deliveries in Quarter Set a Record" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Users of Instagram's embedding API do not receive a copyright license to display embedded images on other websites. This means that embedding an image onto a website rather than hosting it directly does not protect the website against copyright claims. Third parties are still required to obtain the necessary rights to share the content if it is required by law. Instagram is exploring options with giving users more control over photograph embedding. Users can currently block embedding by setting their accounts to private, but this prevents other users from seeing images on the platform itself." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Instagram just threw users of its embedding API under the bus" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Epic Games is buying an old shopping mall and converting it into its new global headquarters. The Cary Towne Center was sold for $95 million. Epic has been based in Cary, North Carolina, since 1999. It has about two dozen subsidiaries and studios in other locations around the world. The Cary Towne Center has struggled to remain open due to online shopping, and much of the mall is blocked off. Its owners got the Cary Town Council to approve its rezoning, permitting Epic to use it for office space. Epic's new campus will include office buildings and recreational spaces." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Epic Games buys a huge mall for its new global HQ" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Tech companies like to frame new technologies as 'inevitable evolutions', but that is not true. More cameras and microphones are entering into consumers' lives as tech companies research, develop, and market new products. New technology does not have to come at the cost of privacy, despite what tech companies say. Stopping companies and governments from mining data from people will not be easy. Attempts are already being made to regulate facial recognition technology while the technology is still in its infancy. Some companies, such as Google, have made the process of deleting customer data easier, giving consumers a bit more control over their lives." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Why You Shouldn’t Believe Tech Companies" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The 2022 Tesla Roadster will have a SpaceX option that consists of 10 rocket thrusters. It will be able to accelerate from 0-60mph in 1.1 seconds. According to Elon Musk, the car will be able to fly very briefly. The acceleration will be safe, but those with heart conditions are warned that the experience will be similar to riding a hardcore roller coaster. A short computer-generated video of what the acceleration might look like is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Musk says “very intense” Tesla Roadster will go from zero to 100 in just 1.1 seconds" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Comet Interceptor is a new space venture that will launch in 2028, aiming to catch and study an object from the outer reaches of the Solar System. The probe will consist of three components, the main mothership and two smaller spacecraft that will separate near a comet to conduct different but complementary studies. It is estimated that the total cost of the operation will be about €150 million. The Comet Interceptor will wait in space until an optimal target is identified, and then it will set off to meet it. This is necessary as comets usually give short notice to their existence. New facilities will soon be able to detect celestial bodies with more accuracy." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "European Space Agency probe to intercept a comet" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Facebook is taking the next step in creating its external oversight board by accepting public feedback on the draft charter that was released in January. The external oversight board will overview Facebook's more controversial content policy decisions, and the charter describes how the content review board will function. Public feedback will be received through a questionnaire with a free-form portion. Facebook will accept submissions for the next six weeks and will release summarized results in June." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Facebook asks for public input about its plans for a content oversight board" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Coinbase users will soon be able to use a direct deposit service to deposit any percentage of their paycheck into the platform. The service can hold the money in dollars or convert it to cryptocurrency for no fee. Other popular finance apps already allow for direct deposit. Coinbase recently canceled plans for a high-interest lending product due to legal threats by the SEC. The SEC has called for more crypto oversight, arguing that most digital assets traded need to register with the agency." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Coinbase dives deeper into banking by letting users deposit paychecks into their accounts" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "SpaceX, Tesla, and Elon Musk own Bitcoin. Musk also owns Ethereum and Dogecoin. He says that he will not sell his holdings. Tesla invested $1.5 billion into Bitcoin in February and sold some of it for a $101 million profit. It stopped accepting Bitcoin for payment in March due to concerns about Bitcoin's energy use. While Twitter may not accept Bitcoin as payment for services, CEO Jack Dorsey has high ambitions for Bitcoin, with hopes that it will create world peace." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Elon Musk says SpaceX holds Bitcoin, ribs Jack Dorsey at conference" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Usenet, launched in 1980, is a discussion system similar to today's message boards where people talk about everything. It is still active today. A user recently uploaded some of the oldest Usenet posts available to the internet to the Usenet Archive for anyone to browse. The Archive currently hosts 317 million posts from 10,000 unique Usenet newsgroups. There have been other attempts at archiving Usenet posts as future historians and researchers would benefit significantly from the content." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Things I Learned Building Data Privacy Vaults at Netflix Giants like Netflix, Apple, and Google have solved the many challenges around data privacy, compliance, and security, and they’ve done it without compromising speed of innovation. How? By using data privacy vaults to handle every bit of their PII and PCI data.Learn more about data privacy vaults and how your company can use them to easily manage sensitive data in the free on-demand webinar: Things I Learned Building Data Privacy Vaults at Netflix." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Things I Learned Building Data Privacy Vaults at Netflix" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "An official render of Google's Pixel Watch has leaked. Google tried to launch a Pixel Watch in 2016, but the design did not match the Pixel brand so they were released under LG branding. The hardware details are still unknown, but the chip that Google chooses to use for the device will be major news as there has been a lack of capable smartwatch chips. More details about the watch could be released at Google I/O on May 11." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google Pixel Watch leak shows off round, all-glass design" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Stack Overflow now has a dark mode, after the feature was listed as the #1 most upvoted Feature Request overall. Implementing dark mode was a challenge as there are hundreds of communities with different design aesthetics on Stack Overflow. Dark mode can now be selected in user preferences. You must be logged into your account to access the option." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Introducing Dark Mode" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "If the coronavirus's spike protein was destroyed, then it wouldn't be able to infect anything. Our cells have a system for destroying proteins that involves tagging targeted proteins with a special protein called ubiquitin. There are no proteins that can attach ubiquitin to the viral spike protein, so a team at Harvard produced one. The bioengineered protein attaches to the viral spike protein, which then allows the ubiquitin to attach to it. Unfortunately, the bioengineered protein also sticks to proteins essential to the health of normal cells, so the technique isn't viable. However, the technology used to create it could be applied to other cases in the future." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A mildly insane idea for disabling the coronavirus" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Josh Howarth found it 100 times easier to bootstrap a profitable online business if you ride recent big market trends, for example, podcast hosting or remote work. There was a lack of tools to find topics to plug into Google Trends, so Howarth decided to build one for himself. He marketed through Twitter, building an email list, and eventually launched on Hacker News. After some initial success, Howarth started focusing on making the product more robust and sustainable for the long term, and to monetize the product. After a few months of working on the code, with no extra marketing efforts, an offer was made to Howarth to acquire his product. With the acquisition, Howarth no longer needed to worry about customer acquisition and marketing, and could focus entirely on building a quality product." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How My Show Hacker News Project Got Acquired After 6 Months" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "All tech salaries are risk premiums in both directions. When you work at a company, they want to pay you as little as possible, which is fairly common across all industries. Companies will pay more to keep employees from leaving, and employees negotiate salaries to negate the risks of getting fired, going broke, or having to work for a FAANG company. Employees can use their demand with other companies to raise salaries as employers try to reduce the risk of them leaving. Even the hint of a chance of a job opportunity from a FAANG company can usually keep employers on their toes. If all high-paying companies suddenly stopped hiring, the asking salary of many developers with other companies would drop significantly. The success of big tech companies has a huge effect on the salary of all workers in the industry." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Tech salaries are risk premiums" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Elon Musk has revealed that he has a design for a submarine car, like the one from the James Bond movie ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. As a child, Musk was awed by the scene where a 1976 Lotus Esprit drove off a pier and transformed into a submarine with the touch of a button. While designing such a vehicle is difficult, Musk claims that it is not impossible. He purchased a 1976 Lotus Esprit at an auction in London back in 2013 for around $997,000. While it might be fun to design and produce such a car, Musk admits that the market for this kind of vehicle would be very small." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Elon Musk says Tesla has a design ready for a James Bond-style submarine car" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard in a deal valued at $68.7 billion. Many of Activision's games will be added to Xbox Game Pass once the deal closes in the fiscal year 2023. It will take a long time for the deal to close as Activision Blizzard operates in many markets, making receiving regulatory approval more complicated for Microsoft. Activision Blizzard was recently sued for promoting a culture of constant sexual harassment. Bobby Kotick will continue to serve as CEO of Activision Blizzard until the deal is fully closed." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Snap has unveiled its first true augmented reality glasses. The new Spectacles can superimpose AR effects over reality. Its frames have four built-in microphones, two stereo speakers, and a touchpad. The glasses use front-facing cameras to detect objects and surfaces so that graphics can interact naturally with the world. They only have a battery life of 30 minutes. Snap will not be selling Spectacles on the mass market. Instead, it will be giving them directly to select AR effects creators through an online application program." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Palmer Luckey, the inventor of the Oculus Rift, has unveiled his latest technology, the Ghost 4 military drone. The two-meter aircraft can be carried in a backpack and has a 100-minute flight time. It can fly autonomously, with artificial intelligence algorithms on board that have been fine-tuned to identify and track people, missiles, and battlefield equipment. Ghost 4 drones can connect to other Ghost 4 drones to form a data-sharing swarm. While many in the tech industry are against using AI technology for military applications, Luckey says that if the US doesn't modernize its military, it will fall behind other countries that do." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oculus founder's Ghost 4 military drones use AI for surveillance and attack" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A software architect is a software expert who makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards. Software architecture is the fundamental organization of a system and the principles that determine the design and evolution of the system. There are three levels of architecture: application level, solution level, and enterprise level. A software architect needs to be able to design software, make decisions regarding projects, simplify problems and solutions, code, write clear documentation, communicate with others, estimate and evaluate time and skills required for projects, balance the needs of a project, consult with others, and market their own ideas. A roadmap for professional development in software architecture is provided." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Become a Better Software Architect" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Apple has cut production targets for all three iPhones it released in September (the XR, the XS, and the XS Max) due to low demand. Analysts believe that the iPhone could start seeing year-over-year declines in sales as soon as the first quarter of 2019. Apple recently announced that it would no longer be reporting iPhone unit sales. The XR model is doing especially poorly, and Apple has told producers to cut production by a third (originally they asked for 70 million units between September and February)." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple has reportedly cut production of its 3 newest iPhone models after lower-than-expected demand" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A mixed reality headset capable of both augmented and virtual reality has been presented to Apple's board of directors. Apple engineers are now developing an operating system for the device called Reality OS, or rOS. The device will feature AirPods Max-like fabric mesh and a headband that looks almost like an Apple Watch loop. It will be powered by an M1-class chip. The device is not likely to be ready for an announcement at WWDC next month." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple’s board of directors reportedly tried out its upcoming AR / VR headset" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Vince Ramos was the owner of Phantom Secure, a company that customized BlackBerry phones to make ordinary wiretaps impossible. Phantom was started in 2008 as Ramos saw a need to ensure private communications. The company removed the GPS, microphone, and camera from BlackBerry phones and added PGP encryption software to create its devices. Phantom could also remotely wipe data from devices. Its servers were routed to ensure data was out of reach of third-parties. As the devices became more popular, criminals became aware of their capabilities and started using the technology. Ramos eventually pleaded guilty to running a criminal enterprise that facilitated drug trafficking and was sentenced to nine years in prison." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A newly discovered species of carnivorous plant grows its pitchers underground to target bugs that dwell inside the dirt." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "This Plant Lurks Underground to Trap Prey in a Way We've Never Seen Before" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Microsoft has released Windows Terminal. It features support for multiple tabs, shortcuts, emojis, custom themes, and more. Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will now support GPUs and Linux GUI apps. It now has a simplified install experience. WSL 2 will get support for GPU workflows in the second half of the year, allowing developers to enable hardware acceleration for many development scenarios." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Microsoft launches Windows Terminal 1.0, unveils GPU support and Linux GUI apps in WSL" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "As a kid, Richard Browning used to build and fly model gliders with his father. Browning has always been interested in potential ideas and solving the problems that would make these ideas manifest in reality. An idea about a different type of flight that used the human body sparked the development of a flight suit that attaches engines to a person’s back and arms. For Browning, being able to make ideas like this into reality makes engineering an extremely rewarding career path." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "\"A risk worth taking\". Richard Browning is Born to Engineer" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Students at Stanford University used a combination of techniques to create software that allows users to edit a text transcript of a video to generate realistic deepfake edits. The software matches the sounds made by the actor in the video with facial expressions, and this information is used to create a 3D model of the lower half of the face. The software then changes the 3D model of the face based on the edited text transcript and then pastes it into the target video. Changes in expression, emotional content, and visual interruptions, such as a hand obstructing a clear view of the face, heavily affect the believability of the deepfakes. The development of this software is an indicator that deepfake technology is becoming increasingly accessible. Deepfakes could significantly impact our ability to trust the media we see. A nine minute video is available that demonstrates and explains the software." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Samsung's M8 monitor has a wireless webcam that can be removed and attached via magnets. The 32-inch 4K smart monitor also features built-in apps that work without a PC connection. It is 11.4mm thick with a built-in microphone. The magnetic webcam can adjust its angle with face tracking and auto-zoom. The monitor will cost $700 for the white version, with colored options available for a $30 upcharge." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Samsung’s new 4K smart monitor has a magnetic wireless webcam" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Jack Dorsey emailed Twitter employees on Tuesday informing them that they will be allowed to work from home permanently. Some jobs, such as server maintenance, will still require employees to come in. Twitter started encouraging employees to work from home at the beginning of March. The company had predicted that the change would become permanent as people discovered the benefits of remote work. Twitter had plans to start working in a distributed way before the pandemic. It is unlikely to open its officers before September and almost all business travel will be canceled until then as well." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Tesla is moving away from using ultrasonic sensors in favor of its camera-only Tesla Vision system. It started producing vehicles without a front-facing radar last year. The ultrasonic sensors were primarily used for short-range object detection and for applications like auto-park and collision warnings. Some Autopilot features will be limited for vehicles without the sensors until Tesla improves its software." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Tesla announces moving away from ultrasonic sensors in favor of 'Tesla Vision'" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have produced a device that can restore vision to the blind using a combination of smartphone-style electronics and brain-implanted microelectrodes. The researchers are now preparing for the first human clinical trials to take place after successful preclinical studies and trials on sheep. There are still many steps required before the device will be available for commercial use. The technology works by transmitting converted image data from a camera to neurons via microelectrodes that are thinner than a human hair." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Researchers ready world-first vision restoration device for human clinical trials" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A whistleblower working as a Google contractor has revealed that contractors have been listening to Google Home recordings as part of their roles in transcribing audio to improve speech recognition. Many of the recordings appear to have been made without owners of the device using the ‘Hey Google’ listening trigger. The contractor reports listening to recordings that reveal personal information, including addresses. Other recordings contain audio of bedroom activities, domestic violence, and even emergencies. The recordings are anonymized before being sent to contractors. There may be thousands of other contractors around the world listening to these recordings in order to transcribe the 0.2 percent of all audio clips that Google requires." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google contractors are secretly listening to your Assistant recordings" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Altos Labs is a biological reprogramming tech company. It has received major funding from the uber-wealthy, including Jeff Bezos. The company has hired some of the world's top scientists with big salaries and given them free rein on their anti-aging research. There are no hard goals or deadlines for Altos' researchers. The company says that its aim is to understand rejuvenation and to create 'great science'." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Super Wealthy Fund Mysterious Lab to Unlock Immortality" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Researchers at the University of California have discovered that diluting the blood plasma of old mice can rejuvenate tissues and reverse the signs of aging. In the study, scientists diluted the blood plasma of old mice with a mixture of saline and albumin. The procedure had no detrimental effects on young mice. Therapeutic plasma exchange has already been FDA-approved in the US for treating a variety of autoimmune diseases and the research team is now finalizing clinical trials to determine if the procedure produces a similar effect in humans." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Discourse Chat allows users to shift between faster-paced chat and slower-paced discussions." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Discourse Chat is now available" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A good friend of mine recently started an ecommerce business called Drunk Shrub, it sells shrub, a tangy syrup that you can mix with alcoholic beverages or carbonated water to make soda. If you're an adventurous foodie and live in the United States, you might want to check this out. I highly recommend the raspberry mint jalapeno!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Drunk Shrub" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Engineers at Purdue University have developed a white paint that can keep surfaces up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their ambient surroundings. The paint reflects 95.5% of sunlight and efficiently radiates infrared heat. It reflects heat back into the universe, which is an infinite heat sink. The paint could one day be used to combat global warming. There is a one-minute video in the article that shows the paint being used in an experiment." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "New 'Super-White' Paint Can Cool Down Buildings and Cars" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Spotify is rolling out a new feature that lets you mute artists you don't want to hear from. This way, the artist's music will never be played from any library, playlist, or radio station on Spotify. The feature will be in the next iOS app release, no word on when it will come to Android." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Spotify will soon let you mute and block artists" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google Maps will soon test a new feature that allows users to follow top Local Guides. Local Guides gives the most active Maps contributors a special status and a variety of perks. If users choose to follow a Local Guide, the Guides' recommendations will be displayed when using Google Maps. The recommendations will mainly feature photos. Users will have to click through in order to see written reviews. It will be trialed in nine cities. Google's focus with Local Guides seems to be engagement and quantity of reviews, rather than review accuracy or quality. There is no set date for the launch of the feature." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google Maps tests a social networking feature with the ability to ‘follow’ Local Guides" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Scientists from Yale have found signs that mammals dream about the world before they are even born. There are waves of activity emanating from the neonatal retina in mice before their eyes ever open. The activity disappears soon after birth and is replaced by a more mature network of neural transmissions. The retinal waves flow in a pattern that mimics the activity that would occur if the animal was moving through the environment. Human babies can detect objects and identify motion soon after birth, suggesting that our visual systems are also primed before birth." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Android 13 has been described by many as the biggest Android OS update since 2014. It refines the OS's feature set and tweaks the user interface in subtle ways. The update includes many significant behavioral and platform changes and several new platform APIs. This article looks at these changes in detail so developers can prepare their apps." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Android 13 changelog" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A megaflash is an extreme lightning burst that can cover hundreds of miles and last for many seconds. Records for megaflashes were broken in 2019, with a flash in Brazil more than doubling the size and duration of previous record flashes. The flash in Brazil stretched more than 700 kilometers, which is equivalent to the distance between Boston and Washington DC in the United States. June 28 was International Lightning Safety Day." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Extraordinary ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres, smashing records" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "US security officials have identified a dramatic escalation of Chinese espionage on US soil over the past decade. Federal officials have investigated Chinese land purchases near critical infrastructure, shut down a high-profile regional consulate, and stopped efforts to plant listening devices near sensitive military and government facilities. They have also discovered that Huawei devices atop cell towers near US military bases were capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Jupe is a startup that creates sci-fi inspired portable shelters. Its team consists of designers from Tesla, SpaceX, and Airbnb. The prefab shelters are designed to go anywhere, with solar panels and batteries to supply power when off the grid. They are spacious, with enough room for a queen-sized bed, a desk, a chair, an ottoman, and 38 cubic feet of storage space in the floors. At $17,500, the shelters are available now for preorder. An image gallery showing off the different features of the shelters is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "These tiny $17,500 prefab 'urban escape pods' from former Tesla and SpaceX designers are now available to preorder" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Uber drivers across France have occupied or shut down many of the company's Greenlight Hubs in order to negotiate better working conditions. Greenlight Hubs are facilities where new drivers can be registered and be onboarded, and where existing drivers can get in-person support. Uber has attempted to move its operations over to hotels and co-working spaces. As the company grew, it increased its own cut of fares and decreased the minimum fares for trips. The drivers have nine demands in their protest. They want a driver cap and a study on Uber's market effects, dynamic pricing instead of fixed pricing, an increase in the minimum driver fare, pay for time spent driving to pick up passengers, an increase in the base pay rate, union representation, removal of the penalty for cancelling trips, the ability to review trip prices and destinations before cancelling, and a driver verification system." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "We Spoke To Uber Drivers Who Have Taken Over The Company’s Offices In France" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Epic's request for a temporary injunction in its case against Apple was heard recently. The case centers around Epic's contention that Apple's control over the iOS App Store constitutes an illegal monopoly that hinders competition. Apple argued that iOS is just one of the many platforms available for Fortnite, so there was no monopoly. Other competing platforms charge the same 30 percent fee that Apple charges. Players who aren't able to play Fortnite on iOS can still play on other platforms, though they might not have the means to do so. Epic argues that even if Apple is allowed to maintain control of its App Store, it should allow developers to make and use their own payment systems. Apps like Uber can charge customers without using the in-app purchase system, and Epic wants the same opportunity for its games. Epic was reprimanded for the actions that led to the court case as the company deliberately broke its agreement with Apple." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple vs. Epic hearing previews a long, hard-fought trial to come" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Coinbase's Super Bowl ad was so popular its app temporarily crashed. The 60-second ad featured a colorful bouncing QR code that brought viewers to a promotional website with a limited time offer. New users signing up to the site before February 15 receive $15 worth of free Bitcoin as well as an entry into a $3 million giveaway. Many other crypto companies also used the Super Bowl to promote services, NFTs, and projects." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Coinbase’s bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was so popular it crashed the app" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Voyage is a startup that plans to offer a taxi service in The Villages, a large retirement community in Florida. Its vehicles have a speed of up to 25 miles per hour and they are remotely operated using a special Telessist Pod. The Telessist pod was created to mirror the experience of driving a real car as closely as possible for the remote operators. Voyage's cars feature multiple cellular connections and a system called Remote Drive Assist in case the cars lose their wireless connections. They also feature a high-tech emergency braking system called Shield that is powered by lidar." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "This self-driving startup built a “car without wheels” for remote driving" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Netflix is experiencing outages around the world, mostly affecting users in the US and Europe. Many people are still unable to connect to the service. Netflix started lowering its streaming quality last week in several countries in order to handle the increased traffic from people going through lockdown or quarantine." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Netflix is currently down for many users around the world" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Google interviewing process starts with a screening interview over Hangouts. Initially, the candidate is interviewed for a general fit to the company, after which they can choose from a range of positions at the particular hiring location. There are two remote coding interviews on algo and data structures, an on-site interview with several coding interviews, a system design interview, a company fit interview, and a last stage where senior Google staff decide whether to hire based on the interviewers’ recommendations. Passing all the interviews and getting to the final stages does not guarantee a job." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google Interviewing Process for Software Developer Role in 2020" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Clubhouse is no longer invite-only. New users are now able to sign up. People on the waitlist will be added over time. Clubhouse also has a new logo, as well as a new app icon. The invite system allowed Clubhouse to grow in a measured way, making sure that things didn't break as the service scaled. There is increasing competition in the social audio space, so Clubhouse needs to open up its service to remain competitive." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Clubhouse is no longer invite-only" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "We have found about 3800 exoplanets (that's planets that orbit a star outside of our solar system). Now scientists think they've spotted the first exomoon, a Neptune-sized object that appears to be orbiting a Jupiter-sized exoplanet called Kepler-1625b 8000 light years away from earth. Scientists want to look at it some more with the Hubble telescope to confirm that it is indeed an exomoon, but they're pretty sure that this is the real deal." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "First Exomoon Found? Neptune-Sized World Possibly Spotted Orbiting Alien Planet" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google Voice can now be configured to forward calls to a linked phone number or voicemail. The feature can be turned on for groups of contacts and rules can be set to play custom greetings. Mobile app users are currently restricted to only being able to view existing rules and will need to use the website to set new rules. The update indicate that Google plans to continue the service." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google Voice now lets you decide who goes to voicemail" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This article discusses what tools like GitHub Copilot mean for the future of programming." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ML code generation vs coding by hand - a hypothesis of the future" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "NASA's Mars 2020 rover has been moved from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California to the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was packed in a large shipping container with the license plate 'HND SGHT'. The rover was carried over 2,300 miles across the country by a pair of Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo planes. It will start its journey to Mars in July 2020, beginning at the Jezero crater, a potential hotbed of evidence for life on the planet. The Mars Helicopter will accompany the rover to Mars and will be the first to fly on another world. NASA is currently storing the rover in the same processing facility that housed Curiosity." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Countdown to Mars 2020: NASA rover makes final journey before July launch" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "OpenAI Five played a best-of-three match against OG, the winners of last year’s The International, and won. The bot has been trained by playing millions of games against itself and has learned how to win consistently, albeit with certain limitations. During the competition, the bot was given a few handicaps. There was no communication between the bots, their reaction time was artificially slowed, and hero choice was limited as some hero skills would give the bot more advantages. While the bot knows how to win the game, it doesn’t actually know how to play the game, so it gets confused in novel situations. In the second of the two games played, OpenAI Five defeated OG within 20 minutes." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "OpenAI bot crushes Dota 2 champions, and now anyone can play against it" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Pose Animator transforms 2D vector illustrations into real-time animations based on the recognition result from PoseNet and FaceMesh. It is possible to create your own design to animate. Sample files and GIF demos are available in the repository." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Pose Animator" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Netflix, the highest grossing app in the iOS app store with $853 million in annual revenue, will stop allowing users to sign up via in-app purchase to prevent Apple from taking a cut of their revenue (Apple takes 30% of the first year of subscription revenue, then 15% after that). Apple made about $256 million just from charging Netflix app store fees last year. Netflix already stopped allowing in-app subscriptions on Android in 2018. Users will now have to sign up on Netflix's website before using the app to watch content." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Netflix stops paying the 'Apple tax' on its $853M in annual iOS revenue" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Keen is an app that is similar to Pinterest, allowing users to create collections based on topics. Created by Google's Area 120 internal incubator for experimental efforts, Keen uses machine learning and Search to help users find helpful content related to their interests. The more users save and organize, the better the recommendations become. A 37-second video showing Keen in action, as well as links to the app, is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Area 120 takes on Pinterest with ‘Keen’ by using Google ML recommendations" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Git Re-Basin can merge models in weight space at no cost to the loss." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Git Re-Basin" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Former Facebook software engineer Patrick Shyu runs a YouTube channel called TechLead which has over 500,000 subscribers. He has posted six videos making fun of Facebook since he was dismissed on August 26. In these videos, he criticizes the work culture, calling it a popularity contest where ideas and projects are driven by likes and comments rather than logic. Shyu had been working at Facebook since May 2018 and had previously worked at Google for four years. He currently makes well over $500,000 through his YouTube videos." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ex-Facebook engineer posts YouTube videos mocking the culture and joking about how he was fired" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The plant-based meat industry is now worth $800 million and accounts for two percent of packaged meat sales. Both Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have started to expand their product ranges. Impossible Foods plans to work with Wow Bao, a Chicago-founded chain of Asian restaurants, to produce a steamed dumpling. The aim is to eventually move into the Asian market, which is emerging as the fastest-growing market for plant-based meat alternatives. Impossible Foods has also started the development of a fish alternative and it aims to recreate every animal-based product by 2035. Beyond Meat has teamed up with Subway to produce the Beyond Meatball Marinara sub, which will be available in 685 restaurants in the United States and Canada for a limited time from September." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are Taking on These 3 Foods After Burgers" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "What I Learned Building Data Privacy Vaults at Netflix Is there a way to protect data privacy without compromising on innovation? Watch the technical session with Jitender Aswani, former Head of Security/Privacy Engineering at Netflix, to learn how Netflix uses data privacy vaults to tightly control access to PII and PCI data.In this deep-dive with Jitender and Skyflow Co-founder and CEO Anshu Sharma, you’ll learn how data privacy vaults work at Netflix, Google, and Apple. We’ll cover compliance, security, and data usability challenges, and discuss how to enable authorized workflows to read and update sensitive data, de-identify datasets for analytics, and run operations like exact match without decrypting data. Watch the webinar now." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "What I Learned Building Data Privacy Vaults at Netflix" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A user asks for experiences of people who have moved to China for work, as there has been an increase in Chinese companies hiring from Silicon Valley. Replies mainly warn about the extra hours and the potential impact on family life, as the work culture in China is quite different to the West. An interesting point was raised that Chinese nationals who had existing US jobs should avoid returning to China until they had obtained their Green cards. Some experiences were negative, especially for those who were not ethnically Chinese. Those who were ethnically Chinese reported that the ‘bamboo ceiling’ they had experienced in Western companies no longer existed for them and they had more successful careers." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Project Nightingale was a project by Google that collected the complete health history of millions of people across 21 states without the patients' or doctors' knowledge. As many as 150 Google employees may have access to the data. Google had partnered with Ascension, a Catholic health care system that operates across 21 states and the District of Columbia. The health provider uploaded patient data to Google's Cloud servers to use a tool that could pull up individual patient pages. The data from the system is being used to design software that tailors individual patient care using machine learning. Google has been focused on health care for a while. It has previously been accused of gaining inappropriate access to hundreds of thousands of health care records through the University of Chicago Medical Center. Ascension has defended its partnership with Google, saying that all work between the companies is compliant to its strict requirements for data handling." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google may be secretly gathering millions of personal health records with alleged ‘Project Nightingale’" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hyundai's Tiger X-1 is a vehicle that has long, bendable legs that it can use if its wheels can't get it to where it needs to go. It can drive in any direction, using either its wheels or legs. The legs can bend as the vehicle goes over uneven terrain, keeping the cargo area level. Hyundai designed the vehicle to be used for difficult rescue operations following natural disasters. It can be connected to an aerial drone to be flown to any location. Hyundai estimates that it needs at least another five years before the Tiger will be ready for the real world." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Hyundai latest concept 'car' walks to places it can't drive" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A test developed by US-based company Grail can detect more than 50 types of cancer before any clinical signs or symptoms of the disease emerge. It is accurate enough to be rolled out as a screening test and will be piloted by NHS England in the autumn. The test looks for chemical changes in fragments of genetic code that leak from tumors into the bloodstream. It has an impressively high level of accuracy with a low false-positive rate." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "In the Indian state of Kerala, more than 30,000 health workers are part of the Communist state government’s robust response to the coronavirus epidemic. The effort involves aggressive testing, intense contact tracing, long quarantines, building shelters for migrant workers, and distributing cooked meals to those in need. Kerala’s efforts appear to be working and could prove instructive for the Indians government, who has largely shut down the country to stop the spread of the coronavirus. India continues to see an uptrend in cases." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Aggressive testing, contact tracing, cooked meals: How the Indian state of Kerala flattened its coronavirus curve" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Jim Lanzone, the current CEO of Tinder, has been appointed the new CEO for Yahoo under Apollo Global. Apollo recently acquired Yahoo for $5 billion from Verizon. Lanzone was at Tinder for 14 months. His appointment implies that Apollo may be interested in making Yahoo into a more profitable operation. Renate Nyborg will take over the role of CEO at Tinder. Nyborg met her husband on the dating app and has a very long track record in tech." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Jim Lanzone breaks up with Tinder, swipes right to take the CEO job at Yahoo, Renate Nyborg takes Tinder CEO role" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "More Cloud for Less Money Now with 22 global locations and better price-to-performance than the other guys, it's no wonder Vultr is the preferred cloud infrastructure provider for developers like you. TLDR readers can redeem $100 in credit just for signing up with this link!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "More Cloud for Less Money" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "MapLibre GL is a community fork of mapbox-gl before their switch to a non-OSS license. mapbox-gl provides interactive, customizable maps in the browser. An example on how to migrate from mapbox-gl is available." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "MapLibre GL" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "We Company will complete its initial public offering by the end of the year despite canceling its launch this week due to concerns over lack of interest by investors. It faces issues over its corporate governance standards, as well as the sustainability of its business model. We Company relies on a mix of long-term liabilities and short-term revenue, which may pose a problem during an economic downturn. In January, We Company was valued at $47 billion, but recent valuations set the company at between $10 billion to $12 billion. We Company has recently made changes to its corporate governance, reducing the CEO and co-founder Adam Neumann's grip on the company. Neumann will now have less voting power and any future successor will be selected by the board. The WeWork brand is strongly tied to Neumann and he had planned to have his wife, WeWork's co-founder and We Company's current chief brand officer, to become his successor." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "WeWork parent says IPO still on despite setbacks" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Meituan is a Hong Kong-listed food delivery firm. The company has recently reached a valuation of over $100 billion. Nationwide lockdowns increased the need for food delivery, but customers tightened their budgets, resulting in a net loss for the company. The daily number of transactions has dropped 18.2%, but the average value per order has jumped up by 14.4%, as more families have started ordering meals. A large number of premium restaurants opened up to food delivery services during the pandemic, and they will likely continue to bring in revenue after restrictions are lifted." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "China’s food delivery giant Meituan hits $100B valuation amid pandemic" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "ProtGPT2 is a language model based on OpenAI's GPT-2 that can generate novel protein sequences." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "GPT Language Model Spells Out New Proteins" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Disney has revealed some of the originals it plans to create for its upcoming Disney+ streaming service, which will be available starting November 12. For 7 bucks a month, subscribers will be able to watch exclusive original content, including Marvel and Star Wars series, Pixar shorts, movies, documentaries, and more. Other content owned by Disney will be available as well, including all the episodes of The Simpsons. Disney will continue to release movies in theatres ahead of their appearance on the streaming service. However, some movies, such as Frozen II, will be exclusively released on Disney+." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Disney+ streaming service will be available starting Nov. 12" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "NASA's Curiosity rover has captured images of clouds on Mars. Clouds are rare in the thin atmosphere of the planet. They usually form at the planet's equator during its coldest months. Some clouds hover about 37 miles above the planet's surface and are made out of water ice, while other higher-altitude clouds are likely made of carbon dioxide. The images are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured amazing images of clouds on Mars" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The image was captured at a distance of about 219 miles and it reveals surface features in a region near the moon's equator." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "NASA’s Juno Shares First Image From Flyby of Jupiter’s Moon Europa" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Mighty is a browser for macOS that uses cloud servers so users can load hundreds of tabs without their computers slowing down. The thin client uses no more than 500MB of RAM, running the cloud browser at 4K and 60 frames per second. Users will need a 100Mbps connection. Access to the servers costs $30 a month. Mighty promises to keep user data private." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Mighty is a Chromium Mac browser streamed from the cloud" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Russia passed a law in November 2019 that will require all smartphone devices to preload applications that provide information about its users back to the government. The information harvested includes location, financial, and message data. Unless Apple complies with the regulation, which kicks in during July 2020, it will have to pull out of Russia. The law is part of Vladimir Putin's goal to create a sovereign internet. Apple has yet to release a statement about the changes. Making these changes would go against Apple's principle of honoring user privacy over the interest of federal governments. Its position on privacy has landed the company in trouble with the US government in the past. Preloaded apps would pose just as real a threat as an official backdoor. Apple has recently changed Ukraine to be part of Russia in its weather reporting, a move that was heavily criticized on Ukrainian social media. The choices that Apple faces highlight the increasing power that large tech companies' decisions have on geopolitics." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple has a Vladimir Putin problem" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Researchers at Google Brain have open-sourced the Switch Transformer natural-language processing AI model. While the pre-trained model weights for the Switch Transformer have not been released, the implementation code is available on GitHub. The Google Brain team has not compared the model's performance to GPT-3, likely due to a lack of information on OpenAI's published results." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Apple has released an early access version of the Apple Arcade aimed at Apple employees for $0.49 per month to test until its iOS 13 launch later in fall. The arcade currently features six games, all still in development. Way of the Turtle is a puzzle platformer featuring a newly-married turtle trying to find his lost wife. Down in Bermuda is a point-and-click style adventure game. Sneaky Sasquatch is a stealth-based action/adventure game. Hot Lava is a first-person action game which is also available on Steam in beta. Kings of the Castle is another action/adventure game, and Frogger in Toy Town is a 3D version of the traditional Frogger game. Apple Arcade will allow subscribers access to over 100 games on demand." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Exclusive: Apple Arcade hands-on with early access trial games on Mac" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Lyft released a new feature for drivers in September called priority mode, which gives drivers more rides for 10% less pay. The ride-hailing industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, with many people around the world sheltered in place with nowhere to go. Many drivers have voiced their complaints online, but the company says that the program was expanded due to the positive feedback it received." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Lyft test program offers drivers more rides in exchange for 10% pay cut" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google has released a developer preview for Android 12L, a new version of Android designed for larger screens like tablets and foldables. The public version will arrive early next year. Android 12L features a two-column layout for the notification shade and lockscreen on wider screens, a taskbar that simplifies the process of launching things in split-screen mode, an API for developers to make apps aware of hinges, and much more. Screenshots from the preview are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google is giving Android on tablets another shot" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ripcord has developed a machine for scanning documents at record-breaking speeds. The machine is able to detect and remove staples, adjust to different document sizes, and make the scanned documents searchable. Using this machine will help many companies remove the need for physical document archives and also help companies work faster. Currently, most companies have to wait for days or weeks to access paper data. Ripcord has received $65 million in funding from investors, and while it may replace some jobs, manual document searching and data entry is usually a task that not many people want to do." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Meet the robot that will almost certainly steal your data entry job" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A team of Italian scientists has created a hydrogel that can remove paints from other paints of similar chemical composition. It can be used to repair street art that has been vandalized. The hydrogel is in the form of a thin foil sheet that can be cut into whatever shape is required. It adheres easily to vertical surfaces and will make over-paint soften enough to wipe off after just a few minutes. The gel can be tuned to work on a variety of surfaces." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Novel hydrogels can safely remove graffiti from vandalized street art" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Roku recently removed the YouTube TV app from its store due to a disagreement with its contract with Google. As a response, Google has embedded the YouTube TV app into the YouTube app. The contract between Google and Roku for the YouTube app does not expire until December. Google has threatened to provide free streaming devices for their YouTube TV customers if Roku refuses to renew its deal under reasonable terms. The dispute is likely due to Google's AV1 video codec, which will require Roku to upgrade to more expensive chips." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google foils Roku’s YouTube TV ban, adds service to the main YouTube app" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This Hacker News thread discusses whether to continue bootstrapping a business or sell when approached with an offer. Some successful startup founders enjoy working with their clients and may feel like they don't want to sell their business to larger corporations. Both routes have their pros and cons. At some point, business owners will have to decide how to exit, and venture capital firms can help immensely with this." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ask HN: Is it okay to just bootstrap it, even when VCs are knocking?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "mlcourse.ai is a machine learning course that aims to balance theory and practice. There are several Kaggle Inclass competitions held during the course. The final session is between September 2 and November 24, and participants can join at any time before the end of the session." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "mlcourse.ai – Open Machine Learning Course" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A team of researchers have genetically modified jellyfish so that their neurons light up when activated. This allowed them to watch the animal's neural activity as it behaved naturally. Jellyfish have brains diffused across their bodies like a net, with each part able to operate autonomously. By observing jellyfish neurons in real-time, the scientists determined that while the network of neurons seems unstructured, there is a surprising degree of organization. The level of neural organization is invisible under a microscope and can only be seen by visualizing active neurons. A couple of short clips showing jellyfish neurons lighting up are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How to read a jellyfish's mind" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new limit on the total transaction calldata in a block to decrease the overall gas cost over the Ethereum network. Decreasing the calldata gas cost could create a security risk, but Buterin's proposal aims to balance that risk. If accepted, the network will require a scheduled network upgrade and miners will need to comply with the new rules. The community is discussing other options to combat the rise of gas fees. The increase in fees has resulted in users switching to lower-cost Ethereum Virtual-Machine compatible networks." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Vitalik Buterin proposes calldata limit per block to lower ETH gas costs" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "An engineer at a startup that is planning an exit asks others for experiences for how their workplaces changed after other startups either sold via IPOs or changed ownership in other ways. In general, employees saw productivity in the company drop as people focused less on working and more on the potential money coming in. They planned more for their futures and had less urgency in developing products. Some companies had slower transitions, but eventually, they all saw a similar drop in productivity until the sale and transitions were complete and new management was installed." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Facebook and Twitter have discovered a network of accounts believed to have been operated by the Chinese government. The accounts were created to sow political discord around the protests taking place in Hong Kong and have now been suspended. There were 936 accounts on Twitter and seven pages, three groups, and five accounts on Facebook. One of the pages had 15,500 followers and at least one of the groups had 2,200 members. Facebook and Twitter are forbidden in mainland China, but not in Hong Kong. Protests broke out in Hong Kong earlier this summer as citizens opposed a Chinese bill that would allow people living in the special administrative region to be extradited to China for trial. The protests have escalated in recent weeks. Twitter has been criticized for accepting ads from Chinese state media, but it has now stated that it will no longer accept advertising from state-controlled media entities. State-backed media accounts will still be free to continue to use Twitter without advertising abilities." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Facebook and Twitter uncover Chinese trolls spreading doubts about Hong Kong protests" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "There are three major browser engines, and they're all open source. Many in the Chromium community are arguing for a Chromium-only web. A Chromium-only web would make interoperability on things like parsing HTML perfect while still allowing people to choose the browser with the features that they want. However, this would affect governance over web standards, especially in a future where the web is regulated by multiple governments." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "What will a Chromium-only Web look like?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Here’s How to Protect Data Privacy and Enable Analytics Sensitive data often finds its way into data analytics pipelines where it’s rarely needed, but adds enormous security and compliance risk. However, blindly purging such data from analytics pipelines can break key use cases.Learn how a data privacy vault and tokenization can help you preserve privacy while enabling analytics. Download this white paper to learn more." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Here’s How to Protect Data Privacy and Enable Analytics" } ]

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