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[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Night mode challenge was an event held by Apple to get users to share Night mode images shot on the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max. Six winners were chosen from thousands of submissions worldwide and their pictures will be featured in a gallery on Apple's website, Instagram, and globally on billboards. The winners were from China, India, Russia, and Spain. Winning images from the Night mode challenge are available in the article along with commentary by the judges." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple reveals the best Night mode photos shot on iPhone" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Scientists from Brazil who study how octopuses sleep say that an octopus' changes in color, behavior, and movement during sleep serve as evidence of a sleep cycle. The findings suggest that octopuses shift between active and quiet sleep. It takes about six minutes for octopuses to enter the active sleep state, which lasts from a few seconds to a minute. While it is not possible to confirm whether octopuses dream, the active sleep stage is a state analogous to REM sleep in humans." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Do Octopuses Have Dreams? They Might, and Undergo Frenzied Shifts in Color" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Neuralink is a fully implantable brain-machine interface that uses super-thin threads that can snake through brain tissue to pick up signals. The company has demonstrated its technology in pigs and monkeys. This article features an interview with the head of Neuralink's brain signals team, Joseph O’Doherty. The interview covers Neuralink's goals, the hardware and software used, what the team is working on now, and the limitations of the technology." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Exclusive Q&A: Neuralink’s Quest to Beat the Speed of Type" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "According to online hiring platform Hired, who analyzed 30000+ interview requests across 1800+ Silicon Valley firms, product managers on average make $133,000, while software engineers make $123,000 and designers make $115,000. The gap between product managers and engineers has only widened over the past couple of years, and exists even after controlling for experience (product managers are paid more to start and more after 6 years of experience). Data scientists were briefly paid more than product managers in 2015, but supply began increasing faster than demand, so now product managers are back on top." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not software engineers" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Really long, popular thread on Hacker News about advice for junior developers. There's life advice, career advice, technical advice, tough love and more. Couple highlights: \"Being valuable to the person who's employing you is what makes you progress in your career.\" and \"Do not try to understand everything in order to do something.\"" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A former research scientist at Google speaks out against the company’s practices as it complies with China’s demands for increased powers to monitor its citizens’ data. Executives argued that government requests were common for the company and that complying with their legal requirements was the right thing to do. However, compliance with these demands raised questions of whether it was right to use their technology to aid China in infringing on human rights." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A Microsoft study published last week revealed a decrease in cross-company communication and an increase in the length of the average workweek after the shift to remote work. The decrease in collaboration and communication is expected to impact productivity and innovation. While the data showed an increase in the length of the average workweek, this increase doesn't necessarily mean that employees are working more hours within the longer workweek. The researchers warn that it is too early to make long-term policies on remote work." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Microsoft remote work study: Average length of workweek has increased 10% during pandemic" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Humans associate fluent expression with fluent thought, leading to a misunderstanding that AI models can think and feel just like humans do." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google’s powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Since 2012, a bug in some of Facebook's apps logged user's passwords and stored them in plaintext. Between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users are believed to have been affected, and while Facebook claims that there was no evidence of employee abuse, there is evidence that at least 2,000 employees accessed the files containing the passwords. Facebook claims that there is no evidence that the passwords were exposed externally, so there is no need for users to reset their passwords, however, they have not had the best track record for dealing with security issues in the past." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Lens Technology, a long-time, major partner of Apple, has been accused of using forced labor in its factories. Apple conducted an independent assessment of its supply chain in 2019 to enforce its standards, but is unknown whether Lens was included in the investigation. The US government is attempting to pass a bill to stop goods made with forced labor from the Uyghur region from entering the US. While Apple has been publicly against forced labor, it has come under fire multiple times for its labor practices in China." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple, Amazon, and Tesla supplier accused of using forced labor" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Apple is introducing third-party payment options for iOS in South Korea. South Korea recently passed new legislation to open up the perceived monopolies of Google and Apple's app stores. Apple will charge developers a reduced fee to implement third-party payment options. The exact details, such as how much Apple will charge developers or when the new changes will begin, have yet to be announced." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple promises third-party payment options in iOS for South Korean users" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Japan routinely scores low when it comes to employee satisfaction in the developed world. Microsoft Japan started its Work-Life Choice Challenge Summer 2019 project to attempt to address this problem. For the month of August, employees at Microsoft Japan had every Friday off, an extra day of vacation that did not come at the expense of any other vacation time. The extra day off resulted in employees taking 25.4 percent fewer days off and productivity rising by almost 40 percent. Most of the increase in productivity was attributed to a change in how meetings were held. Many meetings were cut, shortened, or changed to virtual meetings. Employees reacted well to the four-day workweek trial and Microsoft plans to repeat it again next summer." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Microsoft Japan’s experiment with 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity by 40 percent" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "PayPal recently started testing Kubernetes after running a majority of its workloads on Apache Mesos. This article discusses the challenges that the PayPal team faced when scaling with Kubernetes and how the issues were resolved. The update resulted in a huge improvement in latency. Benchmark results are available." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Scaling Kubernetes to Over 4k Nodes and 200k Pods" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Import Tracker is a Python package for tracking and managing optional dependencies. It enables developers to track and map each module within a project to the set of dependencies it relies on. Import Tracker prevents code from crashing when uninstalled imports are imported. It can programmatically determine the install_requires and extras_require arguments for setuptools.setup." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Import Tracker" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A new type of RFID tag is able to be microwaved for up to 5 minutes. This technology may help Japan develop convenience stores that are completely automated. As Japan’s population declines, a labor shortage is expected. Convenience stores may not be able to maintain the required two or three employees at all hours of the day that they currently need. A microwaveable RFID tag is important as it allows items to be scanned at a distance and also prevents accidents, as current tags may spark when microwaved." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Japan Aims To Automate All Convenience Stores By 2025 With A New RFID Technology" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Secure chat app Signal saw a huge spike in growth last year. People are attracted to the app as it makes private communication simple and accessible. Encryption is important as we will never be able to build secure computers, so it is the best way to protect our data. Consumers are now more aware of how technologies are not serving them anymore. The amount of data collected by companies is concerning, and governments are unlikely to try to intervene and regulate the tech industry." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike explains his vision for the app — and what he sees as the biggest threats to privacy" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This GitHub gist discusses Amazon's overall build and release structure, which is world-class and unmatched in open source." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How does Amazon handle build and release?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Scientists at the University of California used a technique called electrocorticography (ECoG) to track the movement of thought through the human brain. ECoG requires hundreds of tiny electrodes to be placed against the cortex. The technique is used to monitor patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy. In the study, 16 epilepsy patients performed several tasks while having their neural activity monitored and tracked. The results clearly emphasized the role of the prefrontal cortex in directing activity." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as It Moves Through The Human Brain" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "MLGO is the first industrial-grade general framework for integrating ML techniques systematically in LLVM." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "MLGO: A Machine Learning Framework for Compiler Optimization" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Department of Defense has announced a series of contracts totaling $738 million, including a $297 million contract for SpaceX. While the specifics of the 3 missions in the contract are classified, it is likely they will involve sending satellites into orbit for information purposes. The first mission is expected to be completed in February 2021, while the rest are scheduled to be completed in December 2021." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "SpaceX gets $300 million from Defense Department" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A team in Florida working with the US Air Force has built an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine. It uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to create a super-efficient thrust. Most engines use combustion, which is a relatively slow and controlled process compared to detonation. Detonation releases significantly more energy than combustion with significantly less fuel, but detonation engines have proven to be incredibly difficult to build and sustain. A 20-second slow-motion video of the rocket firing is available." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "World-first \"impossible\" rotating detonation engine fires up" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Researchers from New York University have published a 22-step process for creating biologically active, highly efficient tetrodotoxin and its derivatives from commercially available materials." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "After 100 years of trying, scientists have found a way to create the pufferfish neurotoxin" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TikTok Now is a new feature inside TikTok's app that invites users to take a front and back camera photo at a random time every day. The BeReal clone is now available for TikTok users in the US. Users in other regions may be able to download TikTok Now as a standalone app. TikTok Now has some built-in privacy features, such as defaulting to only allowing friends to view posts. Screenshots of the feature are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "TikTok just launched a BeReal clone called TikTok Now" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The r/WallStreetBets subreddit closed down for a little less than an hour on Wednesday as the moderators dealt with issues stemming from the attention it gained following the meteoric rise in GameStop's stock. A letter explaining the shutdown was posted when the subreddit came back up. It noted that the team's requests for help from Reddit to abide by its content policies had gone unanswered, and it also stated how unfair Discord's decision to delete their account was. Discord had opted to delete the WallStreetBets channel for content violations rather than to work with the team to fix things, despite the community getting over 1,000 server boosts. The WallStreetBets mod team now has an official Twitter account." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "r/WallStreetBets went private — and now it’s back with a message" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The developer experience can affect how much you enjoy your job. In this thread, the original poster asks what tech stacks are currently most enjoyable for developers to work with. The thread has plenty of recommendations for tech stacks for all areas of development, as well as advice on how to set up projects so that they are more enjoyable to work with, regardless of the language or stack used." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Samsung has been accused of throttling 10,000 Android apps. It uses an app called the Game Optimizing Service to throttle non-benchmark apps, dropping performance by up to 45%. The behavior has been observed on the Galaxy S10, S20, S21, and S22. Users have been able to produce wild performance changes by changing app package names. The throttling applies to many apps, not just games. It even applies to Samsung's own apps and home screen." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Samsung caught throttling 10,000 phone apps—and its own home screen" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google is close to finalizing a deal to buy or lease a 1.3 million square foot office building in the West Village. The space is large enough to allow Google to hire an additional 8,500 workers. Google is also planning to expand its Chelsea market property by adding 300,000 square feet, which will allow for another 3,500 workers. It looks like Amazon won't be the only tech giant looking to expand in New York City." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google Is Said to Be Shopping for More Real Estate in New York" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This repository contains an implementation of Google's text-to-image neural network, Imagen. Imagen is architecturally much simpler than DALL-E 2. A Discord community is available for developers interested in replicating Imagen." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Imagen - Pytorch" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Scientists from the University of Michigan used ultrasound waves to eliminate up to 75% of liver tumor material in rat bodies. The rats' immune systems were then able to remove the leftover cancerous tissues and prevent reemergence. The technique is already being deployed in human trials in the US and Europe. Liver cancer is one of the top 10 causes of cancer-related deaths in the world, with survival rates at less than 18% in the US." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A new technique successfully fried up to 75 percent of tumors using ultrasound" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Over 997,383 millionaires were minted in 2021—the most ever. What are they doing that you aren’t? They’re investing over 25% of their wealth in alternatives like art.When you realize contemporary art prices outpaced the S&P 500 returns by over 2x since 1995, you can see why. One premier art investing platform makes it ridiculously easy and cost effective to invest just like the ultra rich.Click this special TLDR link for priority access.See Important Reg A disclosures" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Report Reveals Where New Millionaires Invest 25% of Their Wealth" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Patreon is building a video hosting solution and native player so that its creators can upload and share videos without leaving the platform. The feature could help creators rely less on YouTube and other services. Patreon's CEO Jack Conte hosts a podcast that focuses on the people who build and fund tools for creators. It is available on all platforms and episodes will be released seasonally." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Patreon’s building native video hosting for creators to sidestep YouTube" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A US Navy ship, the USS Boxer, used a new anti-drone system to take down an Iranian drone that came too close to it. The new system is called an MRZR LMADIS, a Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, which is mounted on two Polaris MRZR vehicles. It consists of a command node and a sensor node, and the vehicles are outfitted with radar sensors, cameras, and radio-frequency detectors and jammers. The MRZR LMADIS uses the jammer to disrupt signals from the drone, a method which is more accurate and less expensive than using missiles. A US spy drone was recently shot down by the Iranian military. Other directed-energy weapons, aimed at combating drones, are currently in development." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A US Navy ship used a new drone-defense system to take down an Iranian drone" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Top Five Reasons to Re-Evaluate Your Privacy Posture Every organization has a privacy posture, a set of systems, rules, and principles for how to govern and protect their stakeholders’ (i.e. customers’) sensitive information. Regardless of whether your company has defined its privacy posture, it’s important to periodically review how well your data architecture and processes safeguard sensitive stakeholder data. Learn more about the best practices to improve your company’s privacy posture with this on demand webinar: Top Five Reasons to Re-Evaluate Your Privacy Posture" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Top Five Reasons to Re-Evaluate Your Privacy Posture" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Amazon has plans to ask the FCC for permission to launch 3,236 satellites into space to provide broadband internet around the globe. Project Kuiper will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband to areas that have no broadband or inadequate broadband around the world. Amazon is open to partnering up with other companies that share its vision. Tech companies such as Google and Facebook have also invested in projects to provide internet access. It is possible that Project Kuiper will bring Amazon closer to Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space exploration company." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3,236 Internet Satellites" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Rumors that Amazon was working on a wheeled home robot started in April last year. The project was reportedly named ‘Vesta’ and it is supposed to be a waist-high robot that can navigate with the help of an array of computer vision cameras. It will have Alexa built in and can be summoned with voice commands. Vesta was apparently meant to launch this year but there were issues with mass production. Amazon is also working on a high-end Echo device that will be released next year." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Amazon continues work on mobile home robot as it preps new high-end Echo, says report" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Mirage JS is an API mocking library to develop, test, and prototype JavaScript apps without requiring any backend services. Developers can have a complete local offline dev environment up and running in seconds. Mirage JS can help developers create complete prototypes without needing to invest in any server-side infrastructure." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Mirage JS" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Virtual Reality can be a fun, efficient, and safe way to exercise and train skills. Games are fast-paced, intense, and require a level of concentration similar to playing competitive sports. Players can safely and comfortably adjust the difficulty level while getting the exercise they need at home. This article talks about a first-hand experience of using VR as a workout and training tool over 80 days with positive results." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Virtual Reality: My Digital Dojo for Mental & Physical Fitness" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Facebook has released a report that shows what content was most widely viewed by Americans between April and June. It contains sections showing the top 20 domains, links, pages, and posts in terms of views. A companion guide that describes how the data was gathered and analyzed was also released. Facebook released the data in response to reports that posts from right-wing sources had the most interaction. The top posts only account for less than 0.1 percent of the content viewed by US users, and the data only accounts for public posts, not posts made in private groups. A link to the report is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Facebook releases a report on the most-viewed content in News Feed" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Microsoft sank a data center off the coast of Orkney two years ago in an experiment to assess its performance and energy efficiency underwater. The data center had a lower failure rate than conventional data centers, with only eight out of 855 servers on board having failed after two years out on the bottom of the sea. This result may be because nitrogen was used in the capsule rather than oxygen as there were no humans on board. The cost of cooling data centers would be lower if they were underwater. Underwater locations are also more secure without having the large infrastructure costs of constructing a building." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "iOS 14 is now available as a free software update. The update brings major changes to the Home Screen, with Widgets and a new App Library. Incoming calls and Siri interactions have a new compact design. FaceTime now has Picture-in-Picture support, so users can watch videos while on a call. App Clips are features of apps designed to be discovered when they are needed. They can be discovered and accessed through App Clip codes, NFC tags, QR codes, and links. Messages received an update that allows users to better organize their chats. Maps now has new cycling directions, electric vehicle routing, and curated Guides. Users will have more access and control to their privacy settings. There are many other changes in the update. A list of additional iOS 14 features is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "iOS 14 is available today" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Apple tests its chips for security and privacy flaws in a special facility on its campus. When designing a product, Apple abides by a 'privacy by design' philosophy, where everything is created with privacy as a priority. Apple also follows a 'privacy by default' policy, which means that they won't allow data gathering unless there is a real need for it. Unlike software, chips can't be updated after they leave production, so Apple tests their chips in extreme conditions to make sure that they are able to keep customer information safe no matter what happens." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Inside Apple’s Top Secret Testing Facilities Where iPhone Defences are Forged in Temperatures of -40C" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Gilead Sciences recently completed a clinical trial of its antiviral drug Remdesivir. The results showed promising results for the drug's use in treating COVID-19. Patients treated with the drug had rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory symptoms and were discharged from hospital in less than a week. Gilead's stock price has risen by more than 16% in response to the news." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Gilead stock pops 16% after report says coronavirus drug trial shows encouraging early results" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A video is shown where a satellite panel is successfully harpooned by the RemoveDEBRIS satellite, created by a team at the University of Surrey. There is over 7,600 tons of space debris orbiting the planet, and the goal of the RemoveDEBRIS project is to collect the space junk and then at the end of the project, self-destruct by burning itself up in Earth’s atmosphere. Previous tests had the satellite successfully launch a net to capture another junk satellite." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Watch a harpoon successfully spear a piece of space junk" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Concurrent Mode is a set of new experimental features that help React apps stay responsive and adjust to the user's device capabilities and network speed. It is only available in experimental builds and features are subject to change. In Concurrent Mode, React works on several state updates at the same time in order to make the user experience feel faster and smoother." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Introducing Concurrent Mode" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google has opened its Bay View campus to employees. The campus features a solar panel roof capable of generating almost seven megawatts of energy, up to 40% of the campus' energy needs. It will use nearby wind farms to provide more energy. The campus houses a geothermal installation that will help heat and cool the campus without the use of fossil fuels. Google is transitioning to a hybrid work schedule that will only require employees to work from its offices a few times a week. A video tour of the campus is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google opens its Bay View HQ, the first campus it designed itself" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Canadian drone company Draganfly will work with the Australian Department of Defense and the University of South Australia to develop pandemic drones that will use sensors and computer vision to monitor people's temperature and heart rates. The drones will be able to detect people coughing in crowds. Images of the pandemic drones and the software are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "'Pandemic drones' could single people out in a crowd for coughing, sneezing, or running a temperature, developers say — here's how they work" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Switching jobs in tech usually comes with either a financial or title upside, but not always both. There can be many reasons for receiving a lower title while getting an increase in compensation. This article discusses down-leveling when changing jobs, the reasons this can happen, and what to do when it happens." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "@container is a property within the CSS Working Group Containment Level 3 spec that allows developers to style elements based on the size of their parent container. It will be the biggest change in web styling since CSS3. Elements will be able to target their parents and apply their own styles accordingly. This article contains several examples of how to use the @container property." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Next Gen CSS: @container" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new investor note detailing Apple’s upcoming releases for 2019. The note discusses the release of new updates to iPads, MacBook Pros, Apple Displays, iPhones, iPods, Apple Watches, and AirPods. It is expected that the first announcements for the new products will be in March." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Kuo: 16-inch MacBook Pro, 31-inch 6K display, iPhones w/ upgraded Face ID & bilateral wireless charging coming in 2019" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Facebook's first pair of smart glasses are being released this year. The next generation of smart glasses will work alongside a soft wristband that measures hand and finger gestures and provides haptic feedback. It will use neural input tech to convert electrical impulses into inputs. A short video demonstrating how the setup would work is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Facebook's ready to talk about how its AR glasses will work with neural wristbands" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Researchers found that an injection of green algae and cyanobacteria into the brains of suffocated African clawed frog tadpoles resulted in increased local oxygen and the revival of the tadpoles. The human brain can't survive without oxygen for more than five minutes before irreversible damage occurs. While the method may one day provide a way to directly increase oxygen levels in human brains, there are many factors that make it unviable. Even if the method works on human brain cells in the lab, it does not mean it will actually work in humans." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Inserting Algae Into Tadpoles Can Bring Their Brains Back Online" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "While TV shows, movies, and books commonly feature romance as an integral part of their stories, romantic games are still relatively uncommon. Previous attempts have generally been unsuccessful, as the more emotional nuances to relationships are difficult to translate into game controls, usually resulting in transactional-relationship type interactions in games. A mobile game produced in China, Love and Producer, has become a hit, attracting millions of female users looking for love. Users play a TV producer with four love interests, and they can interact with these characters through phone calls and social media updates. Players can purchase special voice episodes where they can ‘talk’ to their virtual sweethearts on the phone. Producers say the success of the game is due to their focus and understanding of the emotional needs of their audience." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "“They’re more attractive than real boyfriends.” Inside the weird world of Chinese romance video games" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Apple Business Essentials is a new offering from Apple that combines device management, 24/7 phone support for IT and end-users, business iCloud support, and an option for onsite repairs for some businesses. IT departments will now be able to push apps and settings onto employees' devices when they sign in with their work credentials. A free beta is now available. The full service will launch in the spring of 2022. Pricing for the service will start at $2.99 per month per user." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple launches Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage, onsite repairs, and more for one monthly price" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This article follows the story of Amazon as it developed from a bookseller into a company that sells everything. It describes Amazon's design process and how Jeff Bezos' decisions affects the end products. Amazon's products are developed inside the company's secretive Lab126 group, which has around 3,000 employees, making it one of the largest internal design groups in the world. There are human and ecological costs to achieving the level of service that Amazon provides. Despite Bezos' customer-focused obsession and the company's focus on design and service, Amazon is still not human-centered, and that could be why the company is still neither cool nor loved." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Inside Jeff Bezos’s failed attempt to make Amazon “cool” like Apple and Nike" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This thread is full of tips on how to attract funding from Venture Capitals despite the recent market downturn." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Epic Games (the company behind Fortnite) has built a bunch of internal tools in order to bring Fortnite to 200 million players across 7 platforms. Over the next year, it is planning on opening up all of this cross-platform functionality for free to other game developers (stuff like cross-platform voice comms, matchmaking, saved games, achievements and trophies, logins, profiles, etc.). If you're a game dev you should definitely check this out." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Epic 2019 Cross-Platform Online Services Roadmap" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Trash does not only take up space, it also becomes a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is almost 86 times as potent as CO2. A new startup called Sierra Energy raised $33 million through Breakthrough Energy Ventures to handle the millions of tons of waste that currently goes to landfills. Sierra Energy is able to process nearly anything, recycling everything into electricity, plastics, fuels, and a range of other products, without any external energy or emissions. It works by heating up the waste to over 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit using a chemical reaction with carbon and pure oxygen, and then capturing all the gasses and recycling them. A demonstration plant located on an Army base in California currently uses garbage to generate both fuel and electricity, but future plants will only do one or the other." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "This startup just raised $33 million to vaporize trash" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "SpaceX is building two skyscraper-high Starship launch towers in southern Texas. The towers will one day catch Super Heavy boosters from the sky. SpaceX plans to launch its first Super Heavy and Starship as early as July of this year. New aerial photos of the towers being built are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "SpaceX's Giant Starship Booster Tower Is Rising in Texas" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Meta's new system, Make-A-Video, can create videos from rough descriptions of a scene. The clips are only up to five seconds long and contain no audio. Make-A-Video is currently closed to the public. Meta is planning to release a demo to the public, but it has not indicated when or how access to the model may be limited. Examples of clips generated by Make-A-Video are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Less than 1% of fresh water in the world is available for human use, and 70% of that is used for agriculture. Demand for food is rising, so new ways to cultivate crops are needed. Two 24-year-old scientists have formed a company, Agrisea, to produce salt-tolerant rice and floating ocean farms by 2021. Over 700 million tons of rice is produced each year. The crop feeds billions of people every day. Scientists have been trying to manipulate the rice genome for decades to improve its nutrition, efficiency, drought resistance, and to reduce methane production. Genetically modified foods are controversial, even though the technology could be used to save billions of lives. Agrisea aims to eventually create a portfolio of salt-resistant crops that will grow in farms around the world." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You May Find Salt-Tolerant Rice Growing In The Ocean By 2021" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Learn how to create a smart sensor using Python that transmits measurements using MQTT to store them in InfluxDB. You’ll also learn about the InfluxDB ecosystem that provides the database and UI tools that can visualize and query your data. Learn more." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Python MQTT Tutorial: Store IoT Metrics with a Time Series Database" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The PyTorch Foundation will operate as part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Meta spins off PyTorch Foundation to make AI framework vendor neutral" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Some spiders occasionally eat snakes. They have been documented eating a variety of animals, including worms, insects, fish, reptiles, and small mammals. 30 species of spiders have been observed to eat snakes in the wild, with 11 more demonstrating the ability in captivity or staged field experiments. Widow spiders, tarantulas, and large orb-weaving spiders account for 80 percent of all reported instances to date. Pictures of spiders eating snakes are available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Spiders eating snakes, oh my! Here are the photographs to prove it" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This article explores some less known, but very useful features in Git. It teaches the reader how to recover deleted commits, clean up commit histories, use submodules to manage third-party code, and more. A cheat sheet that lists the most important Git commands is linked." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Getting The Most Out Of Git" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Magic Leap has created an AI virtual assistant that exists in augmented reality. Mica is a female with short hair, and she is ridiculously human looking. She doesn't talk yet, but she uses AI to look people in the eye and her facial ticks, body language, and posture make her look and feel really realistic." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Magic Leap introduces MICA : AI Avatar" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Atlassian is currently experiencing its longest outage ever. Almost 400 companies lost access to Atlassian Cloud services starting on April 4. The company estimates that many customers will not be able to access its services for another two weeks. This article discusses the timeline of events, the cause of the outage, the impact of the outage on customers and Atlassian's business, and lessons learned from the outage. The outage was caused by a script that accidentally deleted all customer data for anyone using a plugin that was being retired." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Xbox One owners can now stream games to their iOS and iPadOS devices thanks to an update to Microsoft's Xbox app. The remote play feature streams games directly from the Xbox console, similar to the PS4's Remote Play feature. Only Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S games will be supported. Users can stream via Wi-Fi or through a mobile connection. xCloud is Microsoft's game streaming service. Apple has recently offered Microsoft a solution for adding xCloud games to the App Store, but Microsoft has not received it positively." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Microsoft’s new Xbox app lets you stream Xbox One games to your iPhone or iPad" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "As a developer, finding freelance work can be difficult, especially with popular freelancing platforms being flooded with low-quality programmers who place low bids to win projects. While there are many sources and avenues to find employment, the key is to develop sales skills and set yourself apart from the crowd. Employers and companies receive applications all the time, and if an application is generic, it is easy to ignore. Being proactive by creating a portfolio of work and then presenting it correctly will help developers gain more higher-quality jobs than just exploring new job platforms or randomly contacting potential employers." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Minting NFTs, creating cryptocurrencies, and making DApps is just scratching the surface of web3. Finding a job in web3 development requires knowledge of advanced topics and a high level understanding of topics related to the job that is being applied for. This article follows a developer's experience in finding a job in web3. It details the mistakes they made on the way and gives plenty of advice on how to be successful in the space." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Jobs in Web3 - How I landed a job in 4 months" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "AWS SaaS Boost is a tool that helps software developers migrate to a Software-as-a-Service delivery model. It provides core software elements for running SaaS workloads in the cloud, including tenant management, deployment automation, analytics dashboards, billing, and more." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "AWS SaaS Boost released as an open source project" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This repository contains an eCommerce demo store built using the Commerce.js v2 SDK and Next.js. A link to a live demo is available. The store can be deployed to Netlify in one click. It features carts, a checkout, customer accounts, payment gateways, and more." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Demo Store with Commerce.js and Next.js" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "NXNSAttack is a vulnerability in DNS servers that can be abused to launch DDoS attacks of massive proportions. The vulnerability impacts recursive DNS servers and the process of DNS delegation. Using NXNSAttack can amplify a simple DNS query from 2 to 1,620 times its initial size. This can cause the DNS server to crash, taking the target website offline. Patches have been released to resolve the issue." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "NXNSAttack technique can be abused for large-scale DDoS attacks" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Radiant is a startup made up of a team of former SpaceX engineers that is developing portable nuclear microreactors aimed at commercial and military applications. The microreactors will each be able to power approximately 1,000 homes for up to eight years. They will use an advanced particle fuel that does not melt down and is capable of withstanding higher temperatures than traditional nuclear fuels. The technology will allow people in remote locations to use clean energy without needing constant shipments of fuel." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ex-SpaceX Engineers Are Building a Cheap, Portable Nuclear Reactor" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "NASA's Artemis program is a collaboration between NASA and 13 private US companies with the aim of taking humans back to the Moon by 2024. SpaceX will be part of the Artemis program, developing technologies that will help spacecraft refuel while in orbit. Pulling away from Earth's gravity is typically where most fuel is used, so being able to refuel a spacecraft while in space would greatly improve the efficiency and range of space travel." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "NASA and SpaceX are Developing Tech to Refuel Spacecraft While in Orbit" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "De-extinction is not possible as even slight alterations in gene order can have significant effects. Even with 100% of an animal's genetic code, scientists can only create organisms with the same gene order and chromosome count as its living relatives. While de-extinction may be impossible, it is possible to create functional equivalents through breeding or gene insertion. This can be used to introduce species back into environments to benefit ecosystems." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Why ‘De-Extinction’ Is Impossible, But Could Work Anyway" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "This is a video of Mark Zuckerberg announcing Oculus Quest, a wireless All in One VR headset with touch controllers shipping next spring for $399. There will be 50+ games available at launch." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oculus Quest" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "The main reason that sleep tracking hasn’t been implemented into the Apple Watch is due to its battery life. Currently, the smartwatch is able to last about a day and requires charging overnight. Sleep tracking implementation is planned for the next Apple Watch which may either have increased battery life, a low power mode when inactive, or the ability to quickly recharge in the morning. Currently, Apple sells a sleep tracking device called Beddit, but it needs to implement sleep tracking into the Apple Watch in order to gain more market share over other devices such as the Fitbit." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Apple Plans Sleep Tracking Feature for Future Watch" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A game designer entered artwork created by Midjourney, an AI text-to-image generator, to the Colorado State fair fine arts competition and took home first prize." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "An AI-generated artwork’s state fair victory fuels arguments over ‘what art is’" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Computers have become decent at translation and sentiment analysis, but this doesn't mean they have human-level reading comprehension yet. The General Language Understanding Evaluation was developed in 2018. It was designed to represent challenges that the research community thought were interesting. At first, machines failed miserably on the test, but then newer algorithms started to perform well. Despite performing well on the GLUE, machines probably aren't really understanding language. A new test called SuperGLUE has been developed to challenge newer systems." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Andrew Bosworth, VP of AR and VR at Facebook, recently tweeted a video that appears to be filmed hands-free from his perspective. The tweet included a sunglasses emoji, possibly hinting at Facebook's upcoming Ray-Ban smartglasses. It is likely the video was recorded using the smartglasses. The glasses will be Facebook's next major hardware launch. They will likely be revealed at the Facebook Connect developer conference in October. The video posted by Bosworth is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Facebook Teases Ray-Ban Smartglasses Recording In New Video" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Facebook has banned White Nationalism and White Separatism from its platform, claiming that the terms were euphemisms for White Supremacy due to their closely intertwined histories. Users who post or search for content related to these topics will be directed to Life After Hate, an organization that helps people leave hate groups. Facebook will detect and remove offending material using the same technology it uses to filter ISIS content, which is mainly content matching with some machine learning." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Facebook Bans White Nationalism and White Separatism" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Tesla has started construction on a $140 million Shanghai factory. In October, they said that they were operating at a 55-60% cost disadvantage in China due to transport costs, tariffs, and Chinese cash incentives. This new factory will help them close that gap, and it is expected to start producing cars in the second half of 2019, starting at 3,000 Model 3's per week and eventually producing 500,000 vehicles per year." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Elon Musk breaks ground on Tesla's Shanghai factory" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Swarmia wants you to stop measuring toxic engineering metrics There are useful engineering metrics like DORA and SPACE. There are also vanity metrics that do more harm than good, like lines of code written. Which are you measuring?Swarmia is a SaaS tool for tracking only what matters to engineering teams: cycle time, deployment frequency, batch size, and other highly relevant metrics. It deliberately leaves out vanity metrics with no proven impact on developer wellbeing or performance – you won’t find developer leaderboards here.Swarmia is free for small teams, available on the GitHub marketplace, and connects to Jira/Linear, Slack, or wherever your dev data lives. Install Swarmia for free." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Swarmia wants you to stop measuring toxic engineering metrics" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "An Apolemia is a type of siphonophore that looks like a long white string set up in a galaxy-like spiral. Siphonophores are deep-sea predators that are related to jellyfish and coral. They use a curtain of stinging cells to catch prey. Marine Scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute filmed footage of a specimen that was estimated to be 47 meters long, which could make it the longest animal recorded to date. The article contains videos and pictures of the creature." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Longest Giant Stringy Sea Creature Ever Recorded Looks like It Belongs in Outer Space" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "GM has partnered with EVGo to construct a coast-to-coast national DC fast charging network. The network will offer 2,000 charging stalls at 500 stations located every 50 or so miles along America's highways. Each station will offer a 350kW maximum charge rate and be accessible to all EV brands. GM owners will receive added perks such as exclusive reservations and discounts. The stations will feature amenities such as Wi-Fi, restaurants, coffee, and secure shower facilities." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "GM is building a 'coast-to-coast' EV fast-charging network" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Employers could face penalties for contacting employees outside work hours, according to new laws passed by the Portuguese parliament on Friday. The laws were introduced following the expansion of home working during the pandemic. Employers who contact employees after work will be forced to pay for increased expenses as a result of working from home. Employers are also banned from monitoring workers at home. Workers will be required to meet with their employers every two months to stop isolation." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Portugal Makes it Illegal for Your Boss to Text You After Work" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Axie Infinity is an NFT-based game made by a Vietnam-based company named Sky Mavis. It allows players to earn meaningful income by playing the game. Players can buy and sell goods in the game using real money. Dedicated players can earn thousands of dollars a month playing the game. There are many steps involved in even starting to play Axie, including paying a $1,500 upfront cost to buy into the game. Some companies are loaning out Axies to other players in exchange for 30 percent of their earnings. Sky Mavis is working on a free-to-play version that will be available within four months." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on its head" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Singapore imports almost 90 percent of its food. In 2019, Singapore launched its 30 by 30 initiative with the aim of producing 30 percent of its nutritional needs locally by 2030. When the project started, the city had 220 farms, meeting 14 percent of its demand for leafy vegetables, 26 percent for eggs, and 10 percent for fish. 30 by 30 is increasing its demand for tech-based solutions due to the limited land in Singapore. This article explores some of Singapore's farms and their solutions to increasing food production." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Singapore Shows What Serious Urban Farming Looks Like" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Google will slow down the pace of hiring for the rest of the year and work with greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Read the memo Google’s CEO sent employees about a hiring slowdown" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Swarmia not only tracks your engineering metrics but also helps you make long-lasting improvements based on them.\"With Swarmia, we’ve been able to highlight problem areas, set target levels, and drive continuous improvement. In two months, we’ve decreased our teams' cycle time by 40%.\"- Alex Plugaru, Co-Founder & CTO of GorgiasStart improving your development process today!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A better way to track your engineering team's metrics" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A few weeks before CES, Bosch released a concept video of its new Smartglasses prototype. The three-minute video is linked in the article. In the video, people are shown wearing glasses with a completely transparent display. It shows people viewing notifications and messages and also interacting with the display by tapping on the arms of the glasses. The Smartglasses require custom fitting as they work by firing colored lasers directly on the retina to create images. It only takes a few minutes to fit the glasses, and they can be repositioned slightly without the image disappearing. As the image is projected directly onto the retina, it is always in focus, although it will disappear if the user looks to the side. This can feel weird to the user as there is no depth to the image. Observers will not be able to tell when the display is active as only the user can see the projected display." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Bosch Gets Smartglasses Right With Tiny Eyeball Lasers" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Samsung will adopt Google Messages as its default app in the US starting with the Galaxy S22 series. Samsung Messages will still be installed on Samsung devices, but users will have to actively choose to switch to it. Google Messages features enhanced RCS messaging. Having RCS support as a default option will help more users with a modern messaging experience." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Google Messages, with RCS in tow, is now Samsung’s default messaging app in the US" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How can AI improve your testing? Developers use Testim so they can spend less time creating, editing, and updating UI tests - and more time innovating in their apps. It’s flexible, it’s scalable, and it’s used by the best engineering teams (Microsoft, JFrog, and NetApp to name a few).Scale cross-browser testing today with Testim. Start testing free" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "AI-based UI testing improves stability and eliminates false test failures" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Facebook Messenger is testing a built-in bill splitting feature in the US. Users can ask for money inside a group chat and see who has paid their portion of the request. A new Group Effects feature has been added that will let people on Messenger and Instagram video calls use the same augmented reality effects together. Meta also recently introduced new emoji with sound called Soundmoji. A screenshot showing how the bill splitting feature works is available in the article." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Facebook Messenger is getting a built-in bill splitting feature" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Learn how OAuth is actually used in the real world. We cover topics like the eight common OAuth modes, how to use the Authorization Code grant, and why you should never use the implicit grant. Become an OAuth expert today! Download here." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The Modern Guide to OAuth - Free eBook" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Is SOC 2 a thorn in your side? Make SOC 2 painless To land enterprise deals, your business needs SOC 2. But getting SOC 2 compliant is complex, time-consuming, and expensive. Uncomplicate SOC 2 with our guide for growth-minded founders. Turn compliance from a pain point into a competitive advantage. Download Now" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Is SOC 2 a thorn in your side? Make SOC 2 painless" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A flaw has been discovered in the genetically modified cattle made by Recombinetics. Recombinetics created modified bovine which do not grow horns, but in the process, bacterial DNA was mixed up with the cows' DNA, resulting in antibiotic resistance within the cows. While it is probably safe to eat the cattle, scientists are worried that the genes may be passed onto the bacteria inside their guts, leading to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Bacterial DNA present in their genome means that the cows will not receive regulatory approval as food. This is an example of how DNA editing can go wrong. Independent scientists still haven't had a chance to confirm whether the genetically modified Chinese twins born last year have any unintended mistakes in their DNA." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Gene-edited cattle have a major screwup in their DNA" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "After passing interviews and receiving a job offer, an employee might still be in the dark about whether the job position is the right move for their career. In order to determine if a company is right for you, it’s best to try to engage with a current employee and ask them about their experience. Inquiring about the company’s open-source engagements, bug-fixing policies, code quality policies, testing and validation procedures, development pipelines, and career development opportunities can provide potential employees with the information they need to decide if a position is right for them. A new job is a commitment that can significantly impact a person’s future opportunities, so it is important to obtain the necessary information in order to make the right career choice." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Top 5 Things to Ask Your Future Employer Before Accepting an Offer" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Content marketing agency Fractl created a completely AI-generated blog using an open-source tool called Grover. Grover can easily generate fake news articles, as well as spot articles that were generated by itself and other AI. Fractl created the fake blog to bring attention to the fact that the internet will soon be flooded with AI-generated articles that will be targeted at Google search rankings. In the past, article spinners performed a similar task and Google was able to eventually block these sites from appearing in results, but blocking AI-generated content will be much more difficult. Google did not respond when asked about their plans on detecting AI-generated text." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Endless AI-generated spam risks clogging up Google’s search results" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "A startup called Ambrosia Medical that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with the blood of young people plans to launch its first clinic in New York City at the end of this year. In 2017, Ambrosia enrolled people in the first US clinical trial designed to find out what happens when the veins of adults are filled with blood from the young. While the results of that study have not yet been made public, Ambrosia CEO Jesse Karmazin told Business Insider the results were \"really positive.\" Because blood transfusions are already approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Ambrosia's approach has the green-light to continue as an off-label treatment. So far, the company has already infused close to 150 patients ranging in age from 35 to 92 with the blood of young donors, aged 16 to 25. People in the trial paid $8,000 to participate. Other researchers say that there's no clinical evidence that this actually works. Theranos 2.0 anyone?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "A controversial startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood is opening its first clinic" } ]