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Daily Update 2023-01-19

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Big Tech & Startups

Apple announces revamped full-size HomePod two years after discontinuing original (2 minute read)

Apple has announced a new HomePod with support for Thread and Matter. The $299 smart speaker has a similar form factor to the original HomePod, an upgraded S7 chip, and temperature and humidity sensors. It has a single four-inch woofer paired with five tweeters and five microphones. The speakers can sense how they are positioned in a room and adjust their sound accordingly. The second-generation HomePod is now available for preorder and will start shipping on February 3.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4: ‘people are begging to be disappointed and they will be’ (4 minute read)

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman recently addressed rumors about GPT-4 during an interview. There is no set timeframe for when GPT-4 will come out. Altman said that the rumor that GPT-4 will have 100 trillion parameters is 'complete bullshit'. OpenAI hasn't yet achieved artificial general intelligence. The company is developing video-generating AI models. Links to the full interview are available.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

Boston Dynamics’ latest Atlas video demos a robot that run, jump, and now, grab and throw things (2 minute read)

Boston Dynamics has released a new video demo of its Atlas robot. The humanoid robot now has 'hands' that can grab objects. Its grippers, designed for heavy lifting tasks, are made up of one fixed finger and one moving finger. A video showing Atlas picking up a tool bag, running with it, and throwing it while jumping and spinning around is available in the article.

Moderna's mRNA RSV vaccine delivers impressive Phase 3 trial results (2 minute read)

Moderna's mRNA vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in older adults is nearly 84% effective at preventing moderate disease according to results from its Phase 3 trials. The company is expected to file for US FDA approval this year. There are three different RSV vaccines that could reach clinical use over the next 12 months. Moderna is investigating a vaccine that combines its RSV vaccine with antigens for SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and human metapneumovirus.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Awesome Software and Architectural Design Patterns (GitHub Repo)

This repository contains a curated list of software and architecture-related design patterns. Categories include programming language design patterns, general architecture, microservices and distributed systems, Internet of Things, mobile, security, and frontend development. A design pattern is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations.

Codeium (GitHub Repo)

Codeium is a free and ultrafast Copilot alternative for Vim and Neovim. It autocompletes code with AI in all major IDEs. A playground is available for trying Codeium online.

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Miscellaneous

Firefox found a way to keep ad-blockers working with Manifest V3 (3 minute read)

Firefox's version 109 update includes a version of Manifest V3 that lets users continue to access privacy tools and ad-blockers. The implementation makes most extensions cross-compatible between Chrome and Firefox. Chrome's Manifest V3 removes a feature that content and ad-blocking extensions use to block certain network requests. While there are security risks to keeping the feature, the Mozilla team believes it's worth the risk to preserve content blocking.

Meet Claude (11 minute read)

Claude is an AI assistant from Anthropic, an AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI employees. This article provides an informal comparison between Claude and ChatGPT. Claude's writing is more verbose, but also more natural. It appears to be better than ChatGPT in many areas, but it is worse at tasks like code generation or reasoning about code.

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Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market? (Hacker News Thread)

Advice for new graduates on entering the job market during a time when many workers are being laid off and companies are freezing hiring.

Polars Ruby (GitHub Repo)

Polars Ruby is a package that provides blazingly fast DataFrame functionality for Ruby.

Is a Venture Studio Right for You? (7 minute read)

Venture Studios take anywhere from 30%-80% of a startup's equity, but they de-risk much of the early-stage startup process.

For your next side project, make a browser extension (13 minute read)

Making browser extensions is a great way to build useful software with less time and effort.

Wikipedia gets its first makeover in over a decade…and it’s fairly subtle (4 minute read)

Changes include improved search, a more visible tool for switching between languages, an updated header, and an updated table of contents section.

HC-tree (7 minute read)

HC-tree is a database backend that improves on regular SQLite with better concurrency, support for replication, and removal of database size limitations.

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Jobs

Qwire is hiring a full stack React/TypeScript engineer to build the cloud based, enterprise solution for music clearance & licensing (Remote, $100k - $190k)

Brightwell is hiring engineering managers, .NET developers, product managers, and DB analysts to build a better way to send global payments (Remote, $75k - $185k)

Mimo is hiring a backend C# and ASP.NET Core developer to help build the best app to learn coding. (Remote, $60k - $62k)

Cerberus is hiring a C++ developer (Nix/NixOS experience helpful) to work on our custom virtualization platform. (Saxony, Germany)

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Apple's new HomePod 🎵, OpenAI CEO on GPT-4 🤖, advice for new grads in job market 👨‍💻

Daily Update 2023-01-19

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