HackerNews Summary (2023-05-23 08AM)

Source: Almost 200,000 Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street

Summary
Job and compensation losses in the tech industry in 2023 have made finance more attractive to young professionals.

Fact

💸 Financial jobs are now more appealing due to job losses and reduced compensation in the tech industry.

👨‍💻 Tech companies have cut tens of thousands of jobs in 2023.

💰 Compensation for tech employees who remain has been lowered, making finance jobs more attractive.

📈 The uncertain economy has led young professionals to prioritize job security over tech perks.

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Source: Continuous Data Quality Monitoring for AWS Athena — Lariat Data

Summary
Continuous Data Quality Monitoring ensures the reliability of rapidly evolving datasets. Teams define data quality metrics, schedule their evaluation, store the data, visualize and alert stakeholders using tools like Grafana or Tableau.

Fact

📈 Defining data quality metrics: teams must identify important metrics in a measurable and auditable way e.g., completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.

🔄 Evaluating metrics: schedule metrics to be evaluated regularly using tools such as Apache Airflow or AWS EventBridge, configuring reasonable evaluation windows.

💾 Storing measurements: data quality metrics must be stored based on scale, cardinality, and query patterns in a time-series database such as Postgres or Clickhouse.

👁️ Visualizing and alerting: use tools like Grafana, Tableau, or AWS QuickSight to visualize data quality metrics and set up alerts to notify stakeholders of potential issues.

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Source: unSkript

Summary
unSkript is passionate about open source software. The team contributes to a range of projects, provides financial support to organizations that promote open source software and has built unSkript as an open source project.

Fact

🤝 Our team members are active contributors to the open source community and have contributed to a range of projects, from popular frameworks and libraries to niche tools and utilities.

💰 We provide financial support to organizations that promote open source software and help ensure that it thrives.

🌱 We believe in investing in the future of open source software and creating a more vibrant and sustainable ecosystem.

🔧 unSkript has been built as an open source project from the beginning.

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Source: Free Trial Versions

Summary
GS-Calc is a versatile spreadsheet software that can be used for simple expense tracking or complex data modeling with millions of formulas and multi-GB data analysis.

Fact

📊 GS-Calc can edit large files including CSV files and XLSX/XLS files that are automatically split and merged.

💻 It has scalability, allowing for building of complex data models with millions of formulas and multi-GB data analysis.

💸 It can also be used for simple expense tracking.

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