OpenAI on AI governance 🤖, the end of screens 🖥️, Next.js Enterprise 👨‍💻

Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2023-05-23 🤔 What if you could automate security and compliance? (Sponsor) It’s 2023. Your engineering team needs to do more with less. But you also need to have a secure and compliant platform to win customer trust (and enterprise deals). What’s the solution? Drata is the smartest way to achieve continuous SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliance ( + other frameworks and custom frameworks). It connects to all your dozens of SaaS apps, automatically collects evidence 24/7, and provides 24/7 monitoring of your security posture. Find out why Drata is used by thousands of companies and rated 4.9 by 404 reviewers on G2. TLDR readers get 10% off and waived implementation fees 📱 Big Tech & Startups OpenAI leaders propose international regulatory body for AI (3 minute read) OpenAI's leadership believes that the world needs an international regulatory body to govern AI. They say that the pace of innovation is so fast that existing authorities are unable to adequately rein in the technology. While an AI-governing body may not be able to flip the switch on a bad actor, it can at least establish and track international standards and agreements. Companies are unlikely to self-regulate - even OpenAI plans to continue developing the technology due to its enormous potential. Amazon employees plan to walk off the job as tech worker tension rises (8 minute read) Some employees at Amazon's Seattle headquarters are planning a walkout on May 31. The protest was organized in response to the frustration over layoffs and the return-to-office mandate. There are also some concerns over Amazon's climate commitments. Walkout organizers are hoping to draw at least 1,000 participants to the protest. Employees report that morale in the company is at an all-time low. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Hypersensitive robot hand is eerily human in how it can feel things (4 minute read) A team of researchers at Columbia University has developed a robot hand with a level of sensitivity and dexterity high enough to feel and handle things as humans do. The team integrated multiple types of machine learning to give the robot hand its abilities. The robot hand is able to feel what it is touching and it can easily reposition its fingers to hold objects better. It can complete tasks in the dark using proprioceptive sensing, something many organisms are capable of. A picture of the robot hand is available in the article. New nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water (4 minute read) Scientists at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have invented a powder that can quickly disinfect water when exposed to sunlight. The low-cost, recyclable powder could be a significant advance for nearly 30% of the world's population. It disinfects water in under a minute and can be removed from water using an ordinary magnet and reused. The powder can be used in wastewater treatment plants to save energy. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Next.js Enterprise Boilerplate (GitHub Repo) This repository contains an enterprise-grade Next.js boilerplate for high-performance, maintainable apps. It supports Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, ESLint, Prettier, testing tools, and more. The boilerplate integrates with ChatGPT for AI-powered, automated code reviews. DB-GPT (GitHub Repo) DB-GPT is a project to build a complete private language model solution for all database scenarios. It was designed to ensure that sensitive data and environments remain completely controlled to avoid data privacy leaks or security risks from large language models. DB-GPT supports local deployment to ensure that models remain absolutely private, secure, and controllable. It uses localized GPT models to interact with data. A link to a video demo is available. 🧑‍🎓 JetBrains Academy: Choose a programming language, and find the best way to learn it (Sponsor) You can’t learn a new language just from watching videos — getting your hands dirty is key. JetBrains Academy lets choose between real-world projects, interactive courses in a smart IDE, or university program. Need inspiration? Start learning Kotlin and get hands-on experience in backend, frontend, and Android development. Register to create your 1st project for free! 🎁 Miscellaneous Changing my mind on remote, moving the team back to San Francisco (5 minute read) While remote work is more comfortable for workers, it makes it harder for startups to succeed or find product/market fit. Working remotely raises coordination costs. It makes it harder for people to align their thoughts. Building community with workers is important as it creates trust. Network effects drive success for both employees and their companies. The End of Screens? (4 minute read) Sightful's Spacetop augmented reality laptop could be the start of a new trend that may lead to a future with no more screens. The laptop is still currently in a beta testing phase and it will likely take years before the technology is ready for mainstream use. Creating virtual monitor space is something that AR could convincingly solve. Once the technology is sufficiently developed, other companies will likely want to create their own versions. ⚡ Quick Links Some Intuition on Attention and the Transformer (8 minute read) This article explores Attention and the Transformer and explains how these technologies make modern language models more effective. AI-Generated Image of Pentagon Explosion Caused Markets to Dip (2 minute read) The S&P 500 fell 30 points in minutes as an AI-generated image of an explosion at the US Pentagon circulated across social media. Ask HN: How to move from dev role to management/team lead role? (Hacker News Thread) This Hacker News thread contains advice and resources for people looking to move from a dev role into a management role. Knip (GitHub Repo) Knip finds unused files, dependencies, and exports in JavaScript and TypeScript projects to improve performance, lower maintenance requirements, and make code easier to refactor. Cloud GPUs (3 minute read) This page lists cloud GPU vendor prices in sortable and filterable tables. The Fusion Race (40 minute read) This article looks at how fusion works, where we are in our progress towards commercial-scale fusion, and why the transition from government-funded to private sector is a good thing. Want more TLDR? 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