Subj : SpaceX spacewalk 🧑‍🚀, noplace tops app store 📱, Cloudflare blocks AI scrapers 🤖 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Thu Jul 04 2024 10:35 am --1kmZxHhK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Polaris Dawn, a mission designed to purchase the limits of SpaceX's techn= ology, is now set to launch no earlier than July 12=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1= ] |Advertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 =09=09TOGETHER WITH= [LMNT] [4] TLDR 2024-07-04 GET BACK FROM THE 4TH OF JULY WEEKEN= D IN PEAK PRODUCTIVITY =E2=80=94 NO MORE BRAIN FOG OR MORNING HEADACHES (= SPONSOR) [4]=20 Struggling to power through long coding sessions? Befor= e you reach for the dodgy energy drinks or 10th cup of coffee, try optimi= zing your hydration. LMNT [4] is the zero-sugar electrolyte drink [4= ] mix optimized for elite mental performance. 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Launched out of= invite-only mode on Wednesday, the app allows users to have colorful c= ustomizable profiles and share everything from relationship status to wha= t they're listening or watching, what they're reading or doing, and more.= It focuses on text-based updates and currently doesn't support photos or= videos. The app offers a feed with friends and another global feed from = everyone in the app - both are in reverse chronological order. It uses AI= technology to drive suggestions and creation and create summaries for th= ings users may have missed.=20 THREADS HITS 175 MILLION USERS AFTER A Y= EAR (3 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 Threads has reached more than 175 million mo= nthly active users. Launched on the App Store last year on July 5, the ap= p is still growing steadily. Meta hasn't shared daily user numbers, sugge= sting that Threads is getting a lot of traffic from people who have yet t= o become regular users. Much of the app's growth is still coming from it= being promoted inside Instagram. Meta is considering turning on ads in= Threads sometime next year.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTI= C TECHNOLOGY SPACEX WILL ATTEMPT THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SPACEWALK (4 MI= NUTE READ) [7]=20 Polaris Dawn, a mission designed to purchase the li= mits of SpaceX's technology and help pave the way for a longer-term human= presence in space, is now set to launch no earlier than July 12. It will= be SpaceX's second all-civilian mission and the first in its Polaris p= rogram. The mission plans include the first commercial spacewalk, researc= h on human health in space, and tests to equip the spacecraft with Starli= nk Wi-Fi. It will reach an orbit of over 800 miles above Earth, the furth= est out a human has gone from the planet since the Apollo era.=20 = =E2=80=98SKINNY JABS': WEIGHT-LOSS DRUGS SET FOR NEW BOOM AS GENERIC VERS= IONS EMERGE (8 MINUTE READ) [8]=20 Generic versions of Wegovy, Saxenda,= Ozempic, and Victoza are set to hit the market soon at a lower cost than= the original drugs. Patents for liraglutide, which is in Victoza and Sax= enda, have expired. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest g= eneric drugmaker, has already launched a generic version of Victoza in th= e US. Pfizer, Viatris' Mylan, and Novartis' Sandoz are also planning to l= aunch their own generic liraglutide products. 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Knowing how to train models may not be that useful when working with= generative AI - it's better to develop knowledge in other areas like p= rompting, evals, and using models to build production-quality apps. Calli= ng an API is going to work better than dedicating a team to tune a privat= e model before scaling in most cases. It is possible to obtain an AI rese= arch position without a PhD, but it will take years of study.=20 = =F0=9F=8E=81=20 MISCELLANEOUS AI'S $600B QUESTION (6 MINUTE READ) = [11]=20 AI will likely create a huge amount of economic value. Speculat= ive frenzies are part of the technology and not something to be afraid of= .. Those who remain level-headed have the chance to build extremely impo= rtant companies. However, not everyone is going to get rich soon because = AGI is coming. 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noplace, a mashup of Twitte= r and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (6 minute read)

noplace, an app that aims to bring the = 'social' back to 'social media', has surged to the top of the iOS App Store= .. Launched out of invite-only mode on Wednesday, the app allows users to ha= ve colorful customizable profiles and share everything from relationship st= atus to what they're listening or watching, what they're reading or doing, = and more. It focuses on text-based updates and currently doesn't support ph= otos or videos. The app offers a feed with friends and another global feed = from everyone in the app - both are in reverse chronological order. It uses= AI technology to drive suggestions and creation and create summaries for t= hings users may have missed.
Threads hits 175 million us= ers after a year (3 minute read)

Threads has reached more than 175 milli= on monthly active users. Launched on the App Store last year on July 5, the= app is still growing steadily. Meta hasn't shared daily user numbers, sugg= esting that Threads is getting a lot of traffic from people who have yet to= become regular users. Much of the app's growth is still coming from it bei= ng promoted inside Instagram. Meta is considering turning on ads in Threads= sometime next year.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

SpaceX will attempt the fir= st commercial spacewalk (4 minute read)

Polaris Dawn, a mission designed to pur= chase the limits of SpaceX's technology and help pave the way for a longer-= term human presence in space, is now set to launch no earlier than July 12.= It will be SpaceX's second all-civilian mission and the first in its Polar= is program. The mission plans include the first commercial spacewalk, resea= rch on human health in space, and tests to equip the spacecraft with Starli= nk Wi-Fi. It will reach an orbit of over 800 miles above Earth, the furthes= t out a human has gone from the planet since the Apollo era.
=E2=80=98Skinny jabs': weig= ht-loss drugs set for new boom as generic versions emerge (8 minute read)

Generic versions of Wegovy, Saxenda, Oz= empic, and Victoza are set to hit the market soon at a lower cost than the = original drugs. Patents for liraglutide, which is in Victoza and Saxenda, h= ave expired. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest generic dr= ugmaker, has already launched a generic version of Victoza in the US. Pfize= r, Viatris' Mylan, and Novartis' Sandoz are also planning to launch their o= wn generic liraglutide products. Ozempic and Wegovy will lose patent protec= tion in China in 2026, in Europe and Japan in 2031, and in the US in 2032.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

Cloudflare debuts one-click= nuke of web-scraping AI (3 minute read)

Cloudflare is now offering its web host= ing customers a way to block AI bots from scraping website content and usin= g the data without permission to train machine learning models. It is able = to recognize bot activity even when operators lie about their user agent. T= he bot detection approach relies on digital fingerprinting. With a network = that sees an average of 57 million requests per second, Cloudflare has ampl= e data to determine which fingerprints can be trusted.
Ask HN: Has anyone successf= ully pivoted from web dev to AI/ML development? (Hacker News Thread)

Before getting into AI development, fir= st decide whether you want to train models from scratch or build cool thing= s on top of AI models. Knowing how to train models may not be that useful w= hen working with generative AI - it's better to develop knowledge in other = areas like prompting, evals, and using models to build production-quality a= pps. Calling an API is going to work better than dedicating a team to tune = a private model before scaling in most cases. It is possible to obtain an A= I research position without a PhD, but it will take years of study.
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AI's $600B Question (6 minu= te read)

AI will likely create a huge amount of = economic value. Speculative frenzies are part of the technology and not som= ething to be afraid of. Those who remain level-headed have the chance to bu= ild extremely important companies. However, not everyone is going to get ri= ch soon because AGI is coming. There is still a long road ahead with lots o= f ups and downs before that happens.
The Underground Network Sne= aking Nvidia Chips Into China (10 minute read)

There is a barely concealed network of = buyers, sellers, and couriers bypassing the restrictions aimed at denying C= hina's access to Nvidia's advanced AI chips. The flow of hardware is so ste= ady that most of the sellers take preorders and promise delivery in weeks. = Some even sell entire servers. Research institutions have been among the ma= in buyers of the advanced AI chips. The market will likely remain robust an= d adaptive until viable domestically-made chips emerge in China.
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Quick Links

Mark Zuckerberg experiments= with six-window Quest VR multitasking (2 minute read)

Version 67 of Horizon OS has an experim= ental feature that allows Quest owners to multitask with up to six virtual = windows.
Microsoft lays off employee= s in new round of cuts (2 minute read)

The latest cuts impacted multiple teams= and geographies, particularly those in product and program management role= s.
Summer 2025 Tech Internship= s by Ouckah & CSCareers (GitHub Repo)

This repository contains a list of soft= ware, tech, CS, PM, and quant internships for Summer 2025.
Japan wins 2-year =E2=80=9C= war on floppy disks,=E2=80=9D kills regulations requiring old tech (3 minut= e read)

Japan's government has eliminated the u= se of floppy disks in all of its systems and scrapped all regulations gover= ning their use, except for one environmental stricture related to vehicle r= ecycling.
Why AI Infrastructure Start= ups Are Insanely Hard to Build (10 minute read)

Most AI infrastructure startups have id= eas that sound reasonable on the surface but fail to hold up to reality or = rigorous thought.
Against the Burden of Knowl= edge (11 minute read)

'The burden of knowledge' is a theory t= hat new ideas are getting harder to find because people have to spend more = time learning old ideas before they're ready to expand to the frontier.

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