Bitcoin jumps to $63,000, but JPMorgan says the crypto could decline post-halving: CNBC Crypto World ... Bloomberg Originals•98K views · 2:37 · Go to ...

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Meta announced the launch of Llama 3, the latest version of its large language model (LLM), on April 18, describing it as a “major leap over Llama 2.” The company said it has initially released the first two models of the current version, featuring 8B and 70B parameters, with upcoming models slated to feature 400B […] The post Meta announces Llama 3, launches dedicated AI web portal appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Goldman Sachs analysts believe that whether the upcoming Bitcoin halving will turn out to be a “buy the rumor, sell the news” event may have less impact on bitcoin’s medium-term outlook. They explained that the bitcoin price performance will likely continue to be driven by the supply-demand dynamic and continued demand for spot bitcoin exchange-traded […]

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Amidst the ongoing fluctuations in the cryptocurrency market, the price of Bitcoin has surged by 1.7% in the past 24 hours, hovering above the $62,000 mark. However, recent warnings from CryptoQuant, a leading crypto analytics platform, suggest that Bitcoin could face a significant downturn to $52,000 if specific key levels are violated. This cautionary note comes amidst growing uncertainty in the Bitcoin derivatives market, with derivative traders showing unprecedented caution compared to previous halving cycles. Related Reading: Bitcoin Halving Hysteria: Will History Repeat Itself Or Are We Heading For A Market Meltdown? Bitcoin Risky Level CryptoQuant’s analysis highlights declining open interest and funding rates in the Bitcoin derivatives market, indicating a “cautious” stance among traders, particularly with the arrival of several institutional participants. CryptoQuant analyst Shiven Moodley noted: At this halving, derivative traders exhibit far more caution than in previous instances. This season witnesses the entry of numerous new institutional players into the market. According to the analyst, If Bitcoin’s price falls below the critical $60,000 support level, the top cryptocurrency could experience a notable correction to $52,000, signaling a potential short-term bearish trend. Derivative Uncertainty “If the price breaks below $60,000, we might witness a decline to $52,000 before a subsequent rise.” – By @ShivenMoodley Full post 👇https://t.co/XSBnfexbzZ — CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) April 18, 2024 However, the presence of institutional Bitcoin Spot ETFs may mitigate the severity of the decline by absorbing “excess supply from liquidations” around the $60,000 support zone. Moodley stated: If the price breaks below $60,000, we might witness a decline to $52,000 before a subsequent rise. However, given the significant dominance of institutional ETFs, I wouldn’t be surprised if they accumulate excess supply from liquidations near the short-term support level of $60,000. Analysts Sound Alarm On BTC’s Fragile Position Meanwhile, crypto trader and analyst Ali has further fuelled concerns by identifying a pivotal price level for Bitcoin. Ali’s analysis indicates that if Bitcoin drops to $50,500, over $15 billion in liquidations could occur on the Binance alone. #Bitcoin dropping to $50,500 will trigger over $15 billion in liquidations on #Binance alone! pic.twitter.com/9wQTVwprgx — Ali (@ali_charts) April 17, 2024 Such a significant liquidation event could exert immense pressure on the market, potentially leading to further price declines and heightened volatility. This outlook echoes recent warnings from prominent analyst Crypto Rover, who has also cautioned about a potential liquidation event affecting short holders if Bitcoin climbs back to the crucial price mark of $71,600. Despite these concerns, some analysts remain optimistic about Bitcoin’s long-term prospects. Crypto analyst Plan B, known for his Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model, has made bullish predictions for Bitcoin’s future price movements. Related Reading: Bitcoin Bears Beware: $3 Billion Short Liquidation Looms At This Price Mark, Warns Analyst According to Plan B, Bitcoin’s upcoming Halving event will serve as a central driver for price increases, with the cryptocurrency expected to surpass $100,000 this year and exceed $300,000 by 2025. Featured image from Unsplash, Chart from TradingView

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Team testing is a key part of the development process for software companies. Team testing sessions tend to be tedious and generally disliked. We incorporated ChatGPT into the process, transforming it into a competitive activity. This approach offers numerous benefits, from engaging the entire team in understanding the product to correcting flaws.

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By Alex Korotkov, CEO @ PineOx.com \ Hello, everyone. My name is Alex Korotkov. I'm a serial startup founder. I've developed several social apps previously with millions of Daily Active Users, including apps for Fox Sports, Liverpool FC, PSG, RMC Sport, and more. \n Also, I was an internationally acknowledged political prisoner in Belarus, and that's why I chose to start a startup in the social sphere. \ Despite the technological and chemical advancements of the last decades, 99.9% of CO2 extraction from the atmosphere still relies on trees and soil. This fundamental reality underpins our mission at PineOx, where we harness the power of technology not to replace, but to amplify these natural processes. Our approach is simple yet profound: facilitate tree planting on a massive scale to combat climate change effectively. \ As the CEO of PineOx and a software developer with over a decade of experience in creating apps, I have directed our efforts toward developing a platform that empowers individuals worldwide to participate in environmental preservation. Our application not only makes it easier for anyone to contribute to stopping climate change but also ensures that their efforts are transparent and impactful. \ Tech-Driven Solutions \ At PineOx, we leverage emerging technologies to enhance our tree-planting efforts. These technologies allow us to track the growth and carbon sequestration impact of each tree, ensuring every participant can see the tangible results of their contributions. We initiated PineOx because polls showed a significant increase in demand for solutions that enable widespread participation in climate action. The services currently available on the market, primarily from non-profits, lack the transparency and social components necessary for a B2C tool to succeed. By filling this gap, we aim to engage as many people as possible in becoming more environmentally responsible. \ \ Every tree planted through our app comes with a digital twin, represented by an image and location data. This feature allows our users to verify the progress of their seedlings either by visiting the planting sites or by viewing satellite imagery available on platforms like Google Maps. \ Engagement Through Innovation \ One of our core challenges is differentiating ourselves in a crowded market. At PineOx, we bet on a unique and engaging user experience through simple yet unorthodox mechanics. Users engage with our platform by completing sustainability quizzes, and PineOx commits to planting a real tree for every two quizzes completed. We then send the user an image and location of the planted tree, thus maintaining a transparent and direct connection between our users' actions and their environmental impact. \ Our app educates users about their CO2 footprint through an intuitive interface that calculates their annual emissions. We then translate these figures into the number of trees needed to offset their footprint, usually one tree every 7-14 days, depending on their lifestyle habits. This educational tool has surprised many of our users, who often don't realize the extent of their impact on the environment. \ To keep users engaged and informed about the importance of their contributions, especially during significant events like Earth Day, PineOx sends push notifications reminding them to plant more trees to maintain their CO2 neutrality. This reminder is not just a nudge; it's an invitation to participate further in quizzes that deepen their understanding of their environmental impact. \ Future Outlook \ Looking forward, PineOx is committed to expanding our technological capabilities to further enhance our environmental impact. Our future roadmap includes integrating more advanced digital solutions to enable broader participation in tree planting, addressing the urgent need to counteract rapid deforestation. By focusing on scalable solutions, PineOx aims to plant billions of trees each year, bridging the gap between deforestation and reforestation rates and ensuring a healthier planet for future generations. :::info This story was distributed under HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program. Learn more about the program here. ::: \

MEME, powered by model-based reinforcement learning, excels in generating adversarial malware that evades antivirus systems and trains precise surrogate models. Its success hints at broader applications in cybersecurity and threat defense, with future research focusing on optimizations like ensemble surrogates.

The study compares MEME's evasion capabilities with other algorithms, showing MEME's superiority in most targets. Additionally, it evaluates surrogate model agreement scores, highlighting challenges in evading the Sorel-FFNN target despite high label agreement

MEME's experiments evaluated its performance against top malware detection systems like Ember, Sorel-LGB, Sorel-FFNN, and Microsoft Defender. The comparison included state-of-the-art techniques like PPO, MAB, and GAMMA, focusing on adversarial malware generation. Constraints on modifications, running time, query budgets, and evaluation metrics standardized the experiments for fair comparison and robust assessment of MEME's efficacy in model evasion.

\ Welcome, \ I would like to introduce our new JavaScript Standard Library @opentf/std. \ Docs: https://js-std.pages.dev/ Why a Standard Library Matters Over the past few years, JavaScript has evolved at breakneck speed. The language has seen a proliferation of features, modules, and packages. The JavaScript projects with dependencies crisscrossing like a tangled web. The Quest for Simplicity As developers, our primary goal is to find the simplest solution to a problem. Simplicity means functionality, performance, readability, and efficiency. We walk a fine line between complexity and elegance. The Package Proliferation Problem Many NPM packages are one-liners—tiny snippets of code packaged up for convenience. But is this proliferation of trivial code a good thing? Not always. In the real world, it leads to issues. If a package is removed, chaos ensues. Dependencies become a house of cards, and maintaining sanity becomes a challenge. Features Simple & Familiar API with some differences Practical Default Options Includes Async Utils Cross-Environment Compatibility: Execute seamlessly in browsers, Node.js, Bun, Deno, etc. Clean Code: We’ve followed best practices to ensure readability and maintainability. Documentation: Clear explanations and examples for every function. TypeScript Support Usage Examples: Let’s explore some of the library’s capabilities: \ Checking if a Value is Numeric: import { isNum } from "@opentf/std"; isNum(NaN); //=> false \ Converting Strings to Pascal Case: import { pascalCase } from "@opentf/std"; pascalCase("pascal case"); //=> PascalCase \ Sorting an Array in Descending Order: import { sort } from "@opentf/std"; sort([1, 10, 21, 2], "desc"); //=> [21, 10, 2, 1] \ Deep Cloning an Object: import { clone } from "@opentf/std"; const obj = { a: 1, b: "abc", c: new Map([["key", "val"]]) }; clone(obj); // Returns deeply cloned value \ Checking Equality of Objects & Arrays: import { isEql, isEqlArr } from "@opentf/std"; const mapA = new Map([["a", 1], ["b", 2]]); const mapB = new Map([["b", 2], ["a", 1]]); isEql(mapA, mapB); //=> false isEqlArr([1, 2, 3], [2, 3, 1]); //=> true \ Adding a Delay (1 second) with sleep: import { sleep } from "@opentf/std"; await sleep(1000); // Suspends execution for 1 second. \ Functions composition using pipe & compose functions: import { pipe, compose } from "@opentf/std"; pipe( 1, (x) => x + 1, (x) => x * 5 ); //=> 10 compose( 1, (x) => x + 1, (x) => x * 5 ); //=> 6 \ *You can try out these examples on the Playground. Benchmarks Some benchmark outputs are shown here for reference. \ *Note: Our priorities are reliability and accuracy rather than performance. \ clone: ┌───┬──────────────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────┬────────┬─────────┐ │ │ Task Name │ ops/sec │ Average Time (ns) │ Margin │ Samples │ ├───┼──────────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────┼────────┼─────────┤ │ 0 │ structuredClone (Native) │ 276,824 │ 3612.3959469709525 │ ±1.29% │ 27683 │ │ 1 │ _.cloneDeep (Lodash) │ 216,965 │ 4609.032953864744 │ ±2.41% │ 21697 │ │ 2 │ R.clone (ramda) │ 174,567 │ 5728.439422580611 │ ±1.92% │ 17457 │ │ 3 │ R2.clone (remeda) │ 310,268 │ 3223.0154703960834 │ ±2.40% │ 31027 │ │ 4 │ cloneDeep (clone-deep) │ 468,908 │ 2132.611673882092 │ ±1.70% │ 46891 │ │ 5 │ copy (fast-copy) │ 486,179 │ 2056.852050680814 │ ±1.91% │ 48618 │ + 6 │ clone │ 535,302 │ 1868.1028376072306 │ ±2.07% │ 53531 │ └───┴──────────────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────┴────────┴─────────┘ *Note: - Here the lodash does not support errors, sparse arrays & objects in map keys. - Here the ramda & remeda does not support cloning Map & Set. - The fast-copy does not clone objects within Map, buffers in TypedArray, sparse arrays. - The clone-deep does not handle circular refs, does not clone objects within map, sparse arrays, internal refs within the object, TypedArray buffers & DataView. sortBy: ┌───┬────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────┬────────┬─────────┐ │ │ Task Name │ ops/sec │ Average Time (ns) │ Margin │ Samples │ ├───┼────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────┼────────┼─────────┤ │ 0 │ _.orderBy (Lodash) │ 1,231,295 │ 812.1529684071648 │ ±3.09% │ 123130 │ │ 1 │ R.sortWith (Ramda) │ 1,279,200 │ 781.7380570822326 │ ±2.27% │ 127921 │ │ 2 │ R2.sortBy (Remeda) │ 1,419,707 │ 704.3703291518029 │ ±2.81% │ 141971 │ │ 3 │ sort (Moderndash) │ 2,697,568 │ 370.7042634668106 │ ±1.82% │ 269757 │ + 4 │ sortBy │ 2,728,366 │ 366.5196435965459 │ ±2.19% │ 272837 │ └───┴────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────┴────────┴─────────┘ *Note: Here the Moderndash does not support passing object prop as string. isEql: ┌───┬─────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────┬────────┬─────────┐ │ │ Task Name │ ops/sec │ Average Time (ns) │ Margin │ Samples │ ├───┼─────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼────────────────────┼────────┼─────────┤ │ 0 │ deepStrictEqual (Native) │ 950,686 │ 1051.871609041841 │ ±0.24% │ 95069 │ │ 1 │ fastDeepEqual (fast-deep-equal/es6) │ 652,611 │ 1532.3058134904193 │ ±1.49% │ 65262 │ │ 2 │ dequal │ 120,791 │ 8278.7573675501 │ ±0.74% │ 12080 │ │ 3 │ _.isEqual (Lodash) │ 152,075 │ 6575.660376117521 │ ±2.02% │ 15208 │ │ 4 │ R.equals (Ramda) │ 51,496 │ 19418.976504855284 │ ±1.70% │ 5150 │ + 5 │ isEql │ 104,355 │ 9582.655710998957 │ ±1.13% │ 10436 │ └───┴─────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴────────────────────┴────────┴─────────┘ *Note: - The native util `deepStrictEqual` not available in browsers, does not check `Map` ordering & same invalid dates. - The `fast-deep-equal/es6` does not support cyclic refs, Map ordering check, invalid dates, symbols, objects values in Set & TypedArrays. - The lodash `isEqual` does not check `Map` ordering & object values in `Set`. - The ramda `equals` does not check `Map` ordering & symbols. - The dequal does not support cyclic refs, Map ordering, symbols & same invalid dates. \ Conclusion: We invite you to be part of our journey. The world of JavaScript development is ever-evolving, and together, we can shape it for the better. Here’s what we’d like you to take away: Collaboration Matters: Open-source projects thrive on collaboration. Whether you’re contributing code, reporting issues, or sharing ideas, your voice matters. Join us on GitHub, and let’s build something remarkable. Simplicity Wins: In a sea of complexity, simplicity stands out. Our library aims to simplify your coding life, one function at a time. Embrace the elegance of clean code and watch your productivity soar. Keep Learning: JavaScript surprises us daily. Stay curious, explore new ideas, and never stop learning. The next breakthrough might be just a line of code away. \ Visit our docs website for more info. \ 🙏 Thanks for reading. \

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