Subj : Google may buy Hubspot 💰, the AI talent war 🧠, Signals for Tailwind 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Fri Apr 05 2024 10:40 am --NO5RvYIS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alphabet is in talks with advisors as it considers making an offer for ma= rketing software company HubSpot=C2=A0 Sign Up [1]|View Online [2]=20 = =09=09TLDR =09=09TOGETHER WITH [LMNT] [3] TLDR 2024-04-05 = STAY SALTY (SPONSOR) [3]=20 Brain fog. Late-night sugar cravings. M= orning headaches. You think you=E2=80=99re not drinking enough water. Odd= s are, you=E2=80=99re not getting enough electrolytes. =F0=9F=92= =A1 Contrary to what we=E2=80=99ve been brought up to believe, research s= uggests that most people need MORE salt [3], not less. 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Alphabet reportedly weighin= g offer for HubSpot, sending shares in the $32 billion marketing company up= 5% (1 minute read)

Alphabet is in talks with advisors as i= t considers making an offer for marketing software company HubSpot. It has = yet to determine how much it should offer. It is unclear whether antitrust = officials will greenlight the deal. No official offer has yet been submitte= d.
Elon Musk Boosts AI Enginee= r Pay in =E2=80=98Craziest Talent War=E2=80=99 (2 minute read)

Tesla is raising its compensation for a= rtificial intelligence engineers to ward off poaching from other companies.= Elon Musk says that the competition for AI engineers is the craziest talen= t war he has ever seen. Tech companies are offering million-dollar-a-year c= ompensation packages and accelerated stock-vesting schedules. Layoffs are c= ontinuing in other areas of tech.
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10 Years After Facebook Bou= ght Oculus, What's Next for Meta's VR Plans? (6 minute read)

Smartwatches weren't even mainstream ye= t when Facebook bought Oculus 10 years ago. VR is still not massively adopt= ed in 2024, but it has gone mainstream several times. This article contains= an overview of where Meta is heading next with the Quest 3, AI, smart glas= ses, and AR glasses. Meta is bringing its own generative AI features to its= Ray-Ban smart glasses later this month. The glasses will use their onboard= cameras to recognize things in the real world.
Physicists take a major ste= p toward making a nuclear clock (3 minute read)

Scientists were recently able to use a = tabletop laser to bump an atomic nucleus into a higher energy state, a feat= that paves the path towards creating the first nuclear clock. Nuclear cloc= ks keep time based on the inner workings of atomic nuclei. They could be mo= re simple and portable than atomic clocks. They could also be used to test = fundamental physics theories in new ways. Nuclear clocks are based on diffe= rent physics than atomic clocks, so comparing the two types of timepieces c= ould allow for new studies of fundamental physics.
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dotLottie-rs (GitHub Repo)<= /strong>

dotLottie-rs is a Rust implementation o= f the dotLottie player and its related tools. It utilizes uniffi-rs to gene= rate FFI bindings for Kotlin, Swift, and WebAssembly (WASM) for use in nati= ve dotLottie players. dotLottie-rs builds on the Lottie format, adding new = improvements and features like theming support, multi-animation support, bu= ilt-in interactivity powered by state machines, reduced animation file size= s, and more. It brings consistency of playback and dotLottie features acros= s all platforms.
Signals for Tailwind CSS (G= itHub Repo)

Signals for Tailwind CSS is a plugin th= at utilizes style queries via container queries to reactively enable custom= states that can be consumed by descendants in the DOM. It reduces developm= ent effort and the need to compose a chain of variants. Signals for Tailwin= d CSS is useful for simplifying the application of styles based on ancestor= states, improving developer experience with a more declarative API, and re= ducing the need for complex selector chaining and arbitrary targeting. Brow= ser support for style queries is still limited, so Signals for Tailwind CSS= may not be suitable for projects that require broad compatibility.
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Anatomy of a credit card re= wards program (26 minute read)

Credit cards earn money in multiple dif= ferent ways. One important method is interchange, a fee paid by card-accept= ing businesses. The fee is split between various parties in the credit card= ecosystem for marketing. Credit card issuers offer rewards cards so custom= ers use their rails and then compete with each other for 'share of wallet' = by bidding with interchange. Not every card is a reward card due to differe= nt card applications and features, regulations, collusion, and other reason= s. This article explains how credit card rewards programs work and the syst= ems that work together that make them profitable.
Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. What= 's your favorite 404 error page? (Hacker News Thread)

Most of the best and cleverest 404-erro= r pages have been lost to time. This Hacker News thread looks at the curren= t best 404 pages and classic error pages that still survive today. Some exa= mples of sites that have noteworthy 404-error pages include the Financial T= imes, The Sisters of Mercy, Adult Swim, and Reddit.
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OpenAI expands its custom m= odel training program (4 minute read)

OpenAI's Custom Model training program = is expanding to help enterprise customers develop tailored generative AI mo= dels.
Pig kidney transplant patie= nt leaves hospital (4 minute read)

The 62-year-old patient, who is no long= er on dialysis, was sent home two weeks after the ground-breaking surgery.
SableDb (GitHub Repo)

SableDb is a key-value NoSQL database t= hat aims to reduce memory costs and increase capacity compared to Redis.
Our Post-EA World (11 minut= e read)

Effective Altruism taught us that it is= possible to take the hardest problems in the world and work on them.
How to Be Confident (1 minu= te read)

Confidence comes from taking action - i= t is the memory of success.
New RISC-V microprocessor c= an run CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads simultaneously (5 minute read)

The new CPU/GPU hybrid, designed as a '= jack-of-all-trades' processor, will be released to early partners sometime = this year.

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