The Daily Index — Wednesday, September 6, 2023 · TLDR Index

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CHROMEBOOKS

Apple is developing a low-cost MacBook series to compete with Chromebook models. The new line could be launched as early as the second half of 2024. It will have a metal casing made out of different materials from other MacBooks. Educational institutions have rapidly adopted Chromebooks over the last few years compared to iPads. This is the first rumor regarding the new MacBook series, so expectations should remain guarded.

macrumors.com · 1 min

TLDR AI

HUGGING FACE TRAINING CLUSTER AS A SERVICE

Hugging Face launched a new service that allows you to simply train a model without managing the complicated process internally.

huggingface.co · 3 min

TLDR Web Dev

WHY NETFLIX INTEGRATED A SERVICE MESH IN THEIR BACKEND

Netflix recently integrated a service mesh in its backend. A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that handles communication between the microservices in your backend. It handles tasks like load balancing, service discovery, and more, making a microservices architecture simpler to deal with.

blog.quastor.org · 10 min

TLDR InfoSec

GRAFANA SECURITY UPDATE

Grafana released an alert that one of its GPG private keys and passphrases was leaked. In response it has revoked the affected certificate and users will need to update their GPG trust relationships if they utilize package repositories.

grafana.com · 1 min

TLDR Design

PAYPAL HAS A NEW CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER

Former Global Head of Design at Expedia Group, Rachel Kobetz, has joined PayPal as Senior Vice President and Chief Design Officer (CDO). The new executive will be responsible for the design strategy and execution at scale across all end-to-end experiences for consumers, merchants, developers, and employees globally.

newsroom.paypal-corp.com · 2 min

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SAY

More than 200 scientists have signed a letter calling for responsible research into ways to trap carbon dioxide in oceans. The group wants to take urgent action on the climate crisis without triggering any new problems by using oceans to help the fight. There are a lot of unknowns about the side effects of adding more carbon dioxide into the sea. The letter calls for controlled field trials to evaluate carbon removal strategies, third-party reviews of trial results, and safeguards to prevent unintended or adverse consequences.

theverge.com · 3 min

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ADULT CORALS HAVE BEEN SAFELY FROZEN AND REVIVED FOR THE FIRST TIME

A team of researchers from Texas A&M University in College Station successfully froze and revived small colonies of mature corals for the first time. The revived coral in the study only survived a few days after thawing due to stress from the process. Cryopreserving chunks of living corals could save them from extinction. Corals are dying and coral reproduction is struggling due to warming seas and acidity from human-caused climate change.

sciencenews.org · 3 min

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STRIPE AND FACEBOOK

Raylene Yung became an engineering manager at Facebook in 2011. She then moved to Stripe and watched it grow from 200 to over 1,500 employees over the next four years. Yung built Stripe’s product management team, defined career growth and recruiting frameworks, ran the core Payments business, and spun up the company’s global engineering hub in Singapore. This article features an interview with Yung where she discusses career growth for engineers. In the interview, Yung shares career lessons and covers roadblocks that can appear at every stage of an engineering career. She also provides guiding questions to help readers make the right decisions.

review.firstround.com · 33 min

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EVERY BILLABLE HOUR IS AMATEUR HOUR

Software engineers can become agnostic about business outcomes as they optimize for versatility and feature shipping efficiency. This can become an issue if they decide to become freelancers as becoming a freelancer forces them into a business owner position. Becoming a professional business owner means becoming an expert in delivering outcomes that add value. Working by the hour makes this goal harder to achieve and it also creates a worse experience for both the freelancer and their clients.

daedtech.com · 14 min