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Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With Daily Update 2023-01-27 Hire through TLDR's free job board (Sponsor) If you're looking to hire top technical talent, sign up for our free job board. Thousands of engineers, designers, and other tech workers visit the job board each day, and I will be curating the most interesting job listings to showcase in the Jobs section below. Sign up here. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Stripe eyes an exit (2 minute read) Fintech company Stripe has set a one-year deadline to become a public company. It will either list directly or through private transactions such as fundraising events or tender offers. The company has enlisted the help of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to decide the best course of action. Stripe has not been immune to the economic downturn and recently reduced its internal valuation to $63 billion. The company laid off 14% of its staff in November. BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content (3 minute read) Buzzfeed's CEO, Jonah Peretti, has announced plans for AI to have a larger role in the company's editorial and business operations this year. He plans to use AI technology to improve quizzes and personalize content for Buzzfeed's audience. AI will aid the creative process and enhance the company's content, with humans providing ideas and inspiration. Peretti says that in the future, AI will help create, personalize, and animate content rather than just curating existing content. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Scientists Actually Did It: They Built a Real Working Tractor Beam (2 minute read) Chinese scientists have developed the first-ever tractor beam that is strong enough to move macroscopic objects. In their experiments, they demonstrated that it is possible to use flexible light manipulation on macroscopic objects by controlling the interactions between the light, object, and medium. The experiments were conducted in a highly controlled lab that had a rarefied gaseous environment with a lower pressure than Earth's atmosphere. The technique provides a non-contact and long-distance pulling approach that could be useful for various scientific experiments. Precision Neuroscience, co-founded by Neuralink alum, is creating a brain implant thinner than a human hair (4 minute read) Precision Neuroscience's Layer 7 Cortical Interface is a brain implant that aims to help patients with paralysis operate digital devices using neural signals. The Layer 7 is an electrode array that resembles a piece of scotch tape and is thinner than a human hair. Implanting the device requires a surgical procedure to create a slit less than a millimeter wide in the skull. As the device isn't inserted directly into the brain tissue, the resolution of the brain signals is not as strong as it is in some other similar devices. The device has been successfully used to decode brain signals in animals. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today? (Hacker News Thread) This Hacker News thread discusses tech stacks for developing a minimal viable product, with a focus on backend technologies. The top reply threads discuss PETAL (Phoenix, Elixir, TailwindCSS, Alpine.Js, Liveview), Rails, TS, Next, Mantine, Supabase, Vercel, and Django. When creating an MVP, it's not necessary to focus too much on the technical details that may not be worth the effort at this stage. precloud (GitHub Repo) Infrastructure code deployments often fail due to mismatched constraints over resource fields between the infrastructure code, the deployment engine, and the target cloud. precloud is a command line interface that contains rules that check for names, quotas, and resource-specific constraints to make sure that infrastructure code is deployed successfully. It can be used to harden deployments, enforce organizational resource patterns, and maintain security standards. Make your app Enterprise Ready with WorkOS (Sponsor) WorkOS APIs enable you to ship complex enterprise features in minutes instead of months, allowing you to focus entirely on core product features. Use WorkOS and start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. “Integration was straightforward, pleasant and fun” – Bryant Chou, Webflow CTO & Co-founder. Start now for free 🎁 Miscellaneous 45 years old Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year to be 18 again (3 minute read) Bryan Johnson, a 45-year-old man, claims to have reversed his age by as many as five years. A team of 30 doctors is currently conducting experiments on Johnson, monitoring his vital signs and adjusting his routine accordingly. Johnson reportedly spends $2 million annually on his regimen, with the goal of ultimately achieving the overall health of an 18-year-old in all of his body's organs. Details about Johnson's routine are available in the article. What we look for in a resume (16 minute read) The process of evaluating resumes is often a mystery for most job candidates as few hiring managers publicly disclose their methods. This article explains how a small startup, which primarily hires for infra and ML roles, approaches the hiring process. It delves into what recruiters look for in a candidate and more specifically, what they look for in resumes. The article provides a recruiter's perspective on how to improve resumes. ⚡ Quick Links Computer-generated handwriting demo offers deepfakes for scrawl (2 minute read) calligrapher.ai is a site where anyone can simulate handwriting with a neural network that runs in a browser via JavaScript. University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master’s Degree in AI (6 minute read) Tuition will be about $10,000 for the University of Texas' online master's program in artificial intelligence. Next Rust Compiler (5 minute read) Thoughts on what an awesome Rust compiler would do. Here is a very simple introduction to embeddings (3 minute read) A word embedding is a technique used to help computers understand human language by assigning words to numbers. A new AI-powered gene-editing technique could be set to replace CRISPR (3 minute read) Researchers have used AI to develop simple and modifiable proteins called 'zinc fingers' that can edit DNA by attaching to transcription factors and directing them to specific regions of genes that need regulation. Smartphone shipments plunge to a low not seen since 2013 — their largest ever decline (2 minute read) A total of 1.21 billion smartphones were shipped in 2022, the lowest annual shipment total since 2013. 👨‍💻 Jobs Flightcontrol - Developer Advocate/Educator (Fully Remote, $110000 - $145000) Flightcontrol is hiring a Developer Advocate/Educator to create and distribute compelling technical content, including documentation, education, guides, demos, and videos. XcelaStream Inc. - Senior Linux Software System Engineer (Manassas, Virginia, $140000 - $170000) XcelaStream Inc. is hiring a Senior Linux Software System Engineer to be part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining a Linux-based system. saas.group - Product Marketing Specialist (Fully Remote, $60000 - $70000) saas.group is a third party recruiter hiring for a Product Marketing Specialist to lead ScraperAPI’s marketing efforts. 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