Subj : Airbnb Icons 🏠, Microsoft's OpenAI email leaks 🤖, software friction 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Thu May 02 2024 10:37:12 --RZ9ap55B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Airbnb's Icons is a new collection of experiences hosted by big names in = music, film, television, arts, sports, and more=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1] |A= dvertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 =09=09TOGETHER WITH [Do= llar Flight Club] [4] TLDR 2024-05-02 SAVE UP TO $50K ON FLIGHTS= (SPONSOR) [4]=20 Exclusive for TLDR readers =E2=80=93 sign up in the n= ext 12 hours to get 93% off Dollar Flight Club's lifetime membership for = just $129 [4] (normally $1,690). Join over 1 million happy travelers= today. 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Airbnb's Icons is a new collection of e= xperiences hosted by big names in music, film, television, arts, sports, an= d more. Current entertainment-focused Icons include a floating replica of t= he house from 'Up', a night in a VIP lounge with Kevin Hart, and a living r= oom performance from Doja Cat. The experiences are all priced at under $100= per guest. Only a limited number of requests will be selected for each exp= erience via a lottery. Airbnb also rolled out other new features this week,= including the ability for groups of guests to more easily book trips toget= her.
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An email sent to Microsoft co-founder B= ill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella by Kevin Scott, Microsoft's chief technolog= y officer with the subject line 'Thoughts on OpenAI' in mid-June 2019 detai= led Scott's concerns about Google's developments in AI and how it might tak= e Microsoft multiple years to even attempt to compete with Google. Microsof= t had tried to keep the email hidden, but it was made public as part of the= US Justice Department's antitrust trial over Google's alleged search monop= oly. Mere weeks after the email, Microsoft had invested $1 billion into Ope= nAI, and it has increased its investment significantly further since.
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Friction is everywhere in software deve= lopment. Two setbacks are more than twice as bad as one setback. Addressing= friction can also create other sources of friction. Friction is inevitable= and impossible to fully remove, but there are things that can be done to r= educe it, and plans can be made more resilient to it. Things that can reduc= e friction include smaller scopes and shorter iterations, more autonomy, be= tter planning, automation, and using checklists and runbooks.
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Google has laid off at least 200 employ= ees from its Core teams. The reorganization will involve moving some roles = to India and Mexico. The Core unit is responsible for building the technica= l foundation behind Google's flagship products and for protecting users' on= line safety. The Core layoffs also include the governance and protected dat= a group, which will be at the center of regulatory challenges facing the co= mpany. Affected employees have access to outplacement services and will be = able to apply for open roles within Google.
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Programmers tend to assign more trust t= o computers run by anyone but themselves. It's a lack of confidence in thei= r own abilities that leads programmers to think that the people operating t= heir cloud computers are smarter or better than they are. There are no magi= c machines and no magic operators: all systems have the same kind of potent= ially faulty bits and brains. It's all just computers and people.
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