The Daily Index — Monday, August 14, 2023 · TLDR Index

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THERE IS NO HARD TAKEOFF

The information revolution will do for intelligence what the industrial revolution did for energy. Most work used to be done by muscles, now it is not - soon, most thinking won't be done with brains. The change won't happen overnight, but it has already begun. More intelligence will lead to new tricks, but the tricks will get harder and harder to find.

geohot.github.io · 5 min

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MY $0->$100M->$0 IN 5 YEARS STORY

This Reddit post tells the story of someone who quit their executive job at a FAANG and started a SaaS as a first time founder. It talks about how they scaled, raised money from VCs, and how the advice of VCs caused the business to collapse. The story aims to show another side of the VC startup scene to provide a different perspective in a field that often shows too much survivor bias.

old.reddit.com · 3 min

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AMAZON WARNS EMPLOYEES WHO DON’T GO TO THE OFFICE ENOUGH

Amazon sent an email to employees who rarely used their workplace ID badges to enter an Amazon office building saying that workers are expected to start coming into the office three or more days a week now.

cnn.com · 3 min

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RELEASE

Mozilla is launching support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android in the coming months - developers can start optimizing their desktop extensions for mobile use right away.

blog.mozilla.org · 2 min

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HOW A STARTUP LOSES ITS SPARK

A look at the differences between working at startups vs large companies for engineers.

blog.johnqian.com · 5 min

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HOW THE FBI GOES AFTER DDOS CYBERATTACKERS

In this interview, Elliott Peterson, one of the FBI agents who led the investigations around the DDOS attacks that knocked out some of the biggest websites in 2016, discusses his work going after the people behind DDoS services and identifying which services to take down.

techcrunch.com · 19 min

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SAM BANKMAN-FRIED IS GOING TO JAIL

Prosecutors convinced a judge that Bankman-Fried had fed documents to the media to intimidate a witness.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

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CARROT PROBLEMS

Anytime someone achieves success in a way they don't want to admit publicly, they have to come up with an excuse, which can mean misleading others into potentially wasting their time or worse.

atvbt.com · 3 min