The Daily Index — Thursday, February 8, 2024 · TLDR Index

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MORALE PLUMMETS AT GOOGLE AS WORKERS COMPLAIN BOSSES ARE 'INEPT' AND 'BORING'

Google staff morale is suffering badly and workers are increasingly vocal about the slump. The company and its work culture are being described as overly corporate and generally aimless. There is a growing rift between leadership and employees. While executives seem excited about the company's future, employees are much less enthusiastic as they feel they might get laid off at any time.

sfgate.com · 5 min

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MEET ME IN THE ETERNAL CITY

A network state is the idea that an online community could eventually move offline into the real world, with the purchase of land and a community of inhabitants, and become large enough that at least one pre-existing government is moved to offer diplomatic recognition. There are many possible ways the idea can play out, but states must be based on something like a moral innovation or a 'one commandment'. There are several network-state-inspired projects underway. This article looks at the concept of the network state and the projects that are building towards it.

theatlantic.com · 28 min

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAYMENTS STARTUPS

This post contains a collection of thoughts and lessons learned from working at a number of payments companies and startups.

pgrs.net · 13 min

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JAVASCRIPT IN SVGS

SVG is an XML-based format, so it is possible to use tags like CDATA, which allows the embedding of JavaScript code within XML documents, to create SVGs that interact with APIs.

devdailydigest.tech · 3 min

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YOUTUBE TV IS THE US’S 4TH-BIGGEST CABLE TV PROVIDER, WITH 8 MILLION SUBS

YouTube TV bundles over 100 channels into one of the most expensive streaming subscriptions at $73 a month.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

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MEET ‘SMAUG-72B’: THE NEW KING OF OPEN-SOURCE AI

Abacus AI's Smaug-72B, technically a fine-tuned version of Qwen-72B, a powerful language model released by a team of researchers at Alibaba Group, surpasses GPT-3.5, Mistral Medium, and Qwen-72B in several of the most popular benchmarks.

venturebeat.com · 6 min

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NODE.JS COMMUNITY DEBATE INTENSIFIES OVER ENABLING COREPACK BY DEFAULT AND POTENTIALLY UNBUNDLING NPM

Enabling Corepack, which allows developers to use Yam, npm, and pnpm without having to install them, could eventually lead to the uncoupling of Node.js releases and npm releases.

socket.dev · 12 min

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DATA INDUSTRY PRIMER

This article looks at the history of data platforms, what a modern data platform looks like, and important companies in the data ecosystem.

generativevalue.com · 22 min

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