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Interesting if Passport starts aggregating content into one spot like an RSS feed.

psingon Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat

My takeaway -- even the highest regarded engineering orgs are still shitshows behind the scenes.

psingon Ask HN: Allowing sign up from only work emails?

Helps them identify orgs interested in their product by the domain. Easier to reach out in the future to steve@verizon.net as opposed to stevieboy78@gmail.com

psingon OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 1

Wow, over 200 teams competing!

psingon Show HN: sheet2dict – simple Python XLSX/CSV reader/to dictionary converter

There are many data engineers at companies who have to write custom little scripts to take data from spreadsheets into an analytics DB.

Thanks for removing some boilerplate from that process for people!

psingon Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

The hero HN doesn't deserve.

psingon The deck we used to raise our seed funding

How is Airbyte optimized for building new integrations? Can you explain or point to article on that, i'm curious :)

psingon Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

Good for the Unsplash team. I've used their images on a bunch of my content. It's a great resource!

psingon Show HN: Arc, an open-source Databricks alternative

Can you specify between complete pulls of the source vs incremental based on a timestamp field?

psingon TikTok vs. Douyin: A Security and Privacy Analysis

I have no idea what most of this means, but I'm glad somebody is doing it.

psingon How to create a 1M record table with a single query

Creating realistic fake data is useful in lower environments and for load testing. Outside of SQL I like faker: https://github.com/joke2k/faker

psingon Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud

All 3 clouds have their warts and the grass will always seem greener once you pick one. Hard to go against AWS based on size and head start though...

psingon My Python testing style guide (2017)

If you're in the serverless space, a useful addendum: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-write-meaningful-tests-...

psingon CERN experiment hints at new force of nature

Quote describing the new force:

“There could be a new quantum force that makes the B mesons break up into muons at the wrong rate. It’s sticking them together and stopping them decaying into muons at the rate we’d expect,” Allanach said. “This force could help explain the peculiar pattern of different matter particles’ masses.”

psingon Amazon S3 Object Lambda

Athena is such a blackbox with "query exhaustion" errors. Wondered this as well.

psingon The Distributed Data Mesh (2019)

Found this to be a good explanation of data lakes IMO: https://databricks.com/discover/data-lakes/introduction

psingon Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers

nice piece! agree re: asking questions

psingon A deep dive into APL

I used to work at a large insurance company as an actuary, and although it's dying out, there's still APL code modeling insurance products in use. One of my jobs was to add the new years' assumptions into arrays.