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Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With Daily Update 2023-04-12 Drata is the leader in security and compliance automation — find out why (Sponsor) Drata is making the rounds. The company has pioneered a new approach to collecting evidence and achieving continuous compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and other frameworks — potentially saving hundreds of audit-prepping hours. Thousands of customers trust Drata, including companies such as BambooHR, Notion, and Postman. 386 reviewers on G2 have rated its solution 4.9 on average. Want to find out what all the fuss is about? Now’s your chance. TLDR readers and community members get 10% off and waived implementation fees. Claim your exclusive offer now 📱 Big Tech & Startups Elon Musk Makes Big Investment in Generative-AI Project at Twitter (7 minute read) Elon Musk is reportedly moving forward with an artificial intelligence project within Twitter. He recently purchased around 10,000 graphics processing units for the platform. Musk has also hired two former engineers from DeepMind for the project. The project involves a large language model, but it is still at an early stage. Musk recently signed an open letter calling for an industry-wide halt on AI development. Twitter “no longer exists” as a company, merges into Musk’s X Corp (4 minute read) A recent court filing shows that Twitter, Inc. has officially merged with X Corp. It is unknown what Elon Musk intends to do next with Twitter, but some speculate that the merger is part of Musk's plan to launch an 'everything app'. Musk has said in the past that he thinks he could transform Twitter into X within the next five years. There are no signs that Musk intends to relinquish control of Twitter. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Open source is fueling the future of nuclear physics (10 minute read) Open source software played a key role in last year's nuclear fusion breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility, where they succeeded in creating a controlled nuclear fusion reaction that generated more energy than it took to cause. Other scientific fields, especially those that require the use of supercomputers, are also benefiting from open source software. It took some time before the nuclear industry started releasing open source software, due to the potential dangers of the technology, but the secrecy made research and education unnecessarily difficult. The openness is now allowing the industry to move forward faster. Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town (8 minute read) A group of researchers from Stanford University and Google have created a virtual world where 25 characters controlled by ChatGPT and custom code live out their lives. The agents wake up, eat, go to work, partake in hobbies, form opinions, interact with each other, and remember and reflect on their days. This article looks at what happened during the experiment. Three emergent behaviors appeared during the experiment: agents told each other information and the information spread socially among the town, agents remembered past interactions and mentioned them later, and agents started coordinating with each other to plan and attend events. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI (2 minute read) Wolverine is a program that can give Python programs regenerative healing abilities. It uses GPT-4 to edit scripts and explain what went wrong when they crash. Wolverine continues to rerun scripts until everything is fixed. A link to the GitHub repo for Wolverine is available in the article. AgentGPT (GitHub Repo) AgentGPT is a project that aims to push the boundaries of AI autonomy. It allows users to configure and deploy autonomous AI agents in their browsers. These agents reach their goals by thinking of tasks to do, executing them, and learning from the results. A convenient setup script is available. JetBrains Space: Git hosting and Code reviews your team will love (Sponsor) JetBrains Space provides fast and scalable private Git hosting with flexible permissions, CI integrations, quality gates, a web-based UI, and multiple IDE integrations. Enjoy Space’s Git hosting together with seamless code reviews, available from the Space UI, or JetBrains IDEs. Get Space for free (on-premises or cloud available) 🎁 Miscellaneous Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me? (Hacker News Thread) This Hacker News thread looks at the state of the current job market from the perspective of both workers and recruiters. Even former lead engineers from big tech companies are having trouble finding jobs. While many are financially fine from years of working in big tech, some tech workers are finding it difficult to even get an interview. Recruiters are reporting getting hundreds of applications as soon as job postings go live. How we're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible (5 minute read) It's supposed to be impossible to build a browser, but the SerenityOS team is making good progress. Their Ladybird browser is based on architecture described in web specifications. These specifications make it easier for developers to get orientated. The team focuses on setting practical goals, which helps maintain momentum. There is currently not much effort on optimizing the browser for performance as the team is focused on correctness and compatibility. The team culture is strong and highly optimistic. Introducing TLDR Talent I’m super excited to announce TLDR Talent, our exclusive community where we help world-class tech talent and get intros to companies of their choice, along with a number of exciting startups and tech companies curated by TLDR. We give you full control of the process, you can specify if you’re actively searching or passively interested only if something amazing comes along. Set your preferred compensation, seniority/title/role, specific companies (or types of companies) you’d like to work for and more. Click here to apply. ⚡ Quick Links With a wave of new LLMs, open source AI is having a moment — and a red-hot debate (12 minute read) AI companies are increasingly not opening up their models to public scrutiny, so the open source community is stepping in to democratize access to large language models. Why I am Not An AI Doomer (44 minute read) The kind of artificial general intelligence that would be an existential threat to humans, though possible, is very hard to create. Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering (12 minute read) This article explores LLMs, the tasks they perform, their shortcomings, and various prompt engineering strategies. Chunking Strategies for LLM Applications (9 minute read) Chunking, the process of breaking down large pieces of text into smaller segments, can help improve efficiency and accuracy in LLM-related applications. Junior to senior: An action plan for engineering career success (6 minute read) This guide covers the key technical competencies that managers prioritize for career advancement, the essential communication skills expected from senior developers, and how to approach code development with a focus on addressing business requirements. Sony is gearing up for a new cloud gaming push amid rumors of a PlayStation handheld (6 minute read) Sony is hiring for roles related to cloud gaming. 👨‍💻 Jobs HockeyStack - Founding Backend Engineer (San Francisco, California, $140,000 - $200,000) HockeyStack is hiring a Founding Backend Engineer to work with third-party APIs, handle and transform large datasets, and write code to help improve a SaaS analytics platform that unites marketing, revenue, and product data. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Data Science (Fully Remote, $94,496 - $121,873) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hiring a Data Scientist to work on projects that directly contribute to vital healthcare policies in order to advance health equity, expand health insurance coverage, and improve health outcomes for communities across the U.S. Karat Financial - Accounting Lead (Fully Remote, $120,000 - $150,000) Karat Financial is hiring an Accounting Lead to take full leadership of the entire accounting organization and work directly with internal teams to manage and execute mission-critical internal financial planning analysis and treasury functions in order to help creators spend less time worrying about finances so they can focus on creating. You may also like to see more jobs or hire through our free job board. If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. 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