The Daily Index — Tuesday, March 26, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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Find and fix runtime vulnerabilities with Veracode

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veracode.com

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FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS EXPORT TO CSV

CSV is common in the data science space as it is human-readable, less verbose than options like JSON and XML, and super-easy to produce from almost any tool. However, the format is usually underspecified and CSV files have terrible compression and performance. There are many file formats more suitable for working with tabular data. This post looks at one of them, Apache Parquet, and shows how it is better in both compression and performance with examples.

kaveland.no · 10 min

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UNITED STATES V. APPLE

The US vs Apple case will take years to conclude. Apple's success is built upon integration - its hardware, software, services, and entire ecosystem of products work together to create an experience. Developers who want to enter the iOS ecosystem have to go through the App Store and abide by its rules and restrictions. This article looks at the facts of the case against Apple, which directly attacks Apple's core differentiation: its deep integrations across its devices.

stratechery.com · 29 min

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101 THINGS I WOULD TELL MYSELF FROM 10 YEARS AGO

This blog post, written by a former software engineer with experience writing real-time financial systems, contains advice that they needed to hear back during their freshman year of college. The advice is highly personalized to the author. While some of it may be actively bad for some readers, the rest can be helpful for life in general.

approachwithalacrity.com · 10 min

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EVERYONE WANTS THE LATEST CHIPS. THAT’S CAUSING A HUGE HEADACHE FOR THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SUPPLIER

The soaring demand for chips has caused a shortage of specialist workers in the semiconductor industry, delaying production.

cnn.com · 7 min

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INCLUSIVE SANS

Inclusive Sans is a text font that incorporates key features that make it highly legible in all uses.

oliviaking.com · 3 min

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NVIDIA’S AI CHIP DOMINANCE IS BEING TARGETED BY GOOGLE, INTEL, AND ARM

The Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation, a group formed by Intel, Google, Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, and other tech companies, is developing open-source software to prevent AI developers from being locked into Nvidia's proprietary technology.

theverge.com · 2 min

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TWO OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS WITH GREAT DOCUMENTATION

esbuild and Redis are two examples of codebases with exceptional documentation - good documentation is necessary, especially if other people will see or contribute to the codebase.

johnjago.com · 9 min

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SORA: FIRST IMPRESSIONS

This page contains examples of artists' work with Sora, OpenAI's new video generation AI model, along with their thoughts on how they see Sora fitting into their workflows and businesses.

openai.com · 5 min

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FEDERATION IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, SAYS BLUESKY CEO JAY GRABER

This interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber covers Bluesky's approach to federation, the growth of the Bluesky app, and the standards and protocols at the heart of the decentralization movement.

theverge.com · 76 min