The Daily Index — Tuesday, January 30, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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NEW GITHUB COPILOT RESEARCH FINDS 'DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON CODE QUALITY'

A recent study on the quality and maintainability of AI-assisted code found disconcerting trends for maintainability. The percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored is projected to double this year compared to a pre-AI baseline. Using AI coding tools is strongly correlated with mistake code being pushed to repositories. While AI may be able to produce code faster, the code it produces needs to be cleaned up, potentially removing the benefits of fast code generation.

visualstudiomagazine.com · 4 min

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WHAT BIG TECH LAYOFFS SUGGEST FOR THE INDUSTRY

Microsoft's layoffs last year were worrisome because the company has a very good track record of predicting how its business will grow or shrink. Microsoft's business is incredibly diversified to the point where it can be pretty representative of the B2B tech industry, minus advertising. The company's decision to initiate layoffs suggested that the tech industry would stall growth-wise. Microsoft's announcements could have caused other large tech companies to follow suit and announce their own layoffs.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 7 min

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STARLINK'S LATEST OFFERING: GIGABIT GATEWAYS STARTING AT $75,000 PER MONTH

Starlink's latest new Community Gateways service for internet service providers can deliver gigabit speeds. For $1.25 million up front (and $75,000 per month), customers will receive help to build an entire facility dedicated to receiving up to 10Gbps in broadband speeds. ISPs will need to provide the land, power, and lifting equipment. The first Community Gateway was built on an island near Alaska. Pictures from the Community Gateway are available in the article.

pcmag.com · 2 min

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IT TURNS OUT NASA’S MARS HELICOPTER WAS MUCH MORE REVOLUTIONARY THAN WE KNEW

Ingenuity demonstrated that powered flight is possible on other planets, forever changing the way humans will explore and settle other worlds.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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META RELEASES ‘CODE LLAMA 70B’, AN OPEN-SOURCE BEHEMOTH TO RIVAL PRIVATE AI DEVELOPMENT

Code Llama 70B, one of the largest open-source AI models for code generation currently available, was trained on 500 billion tokens of code and code-related data and has a context window of 100,000 tokens.

venturebeat.com · 4 min

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GOOGLE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES RECAPTCHA FREE TIER, INTRODUCES NEW PRICING MODELS

Starting from April 1, Google's previous free reCAPTCHA service will be reduced from 1 million assessments to just 10,000 per month - a new reCAPTCHA standard plan will be introduced with 100,000 assessments for $8 per month.

bytepursuits.com · 1 min

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TAKE THE ROAD MOST DOCUMENTED

Popular software is not always the most understandable - choosing programs with extensive documentation and active community resources makes solving problems much easier.

jarbus.net · 2 min

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AMAZON ABANDONS $1.4 BILLION DEAL TO BUY ROOMBA MAKER IROBOT

The deal has no path to regulatory approval in the EU.

theverge.com · 2 min

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TIKTOK GOES FULL YOUTUBE

TikTok will boost horizontal videos that are more than a minute long within 72 hours of posting for creators who have been on the platform for more than three months, as long as the videos are not ads or from political parties.

theverge.com · 1 min

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