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by bzz01 1y ago
This video has a bunch of cherry picking results and sound bites from already underpowered studies.
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by bzz01 3y ago
Given that you already rely on Polars, did you consider providing a pure Rust interface to Metaflow?
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by bzz01 9y ago
75MB/5 sec benchmark results (using internal AWS network to pull from S3!) sound dubious. You can get 4Gbps+ down from S3 within the same region in my experience, that's 30x faster than these numbers.
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by bzz01 9y ago
I've built this page since I often just want to pick a spot instance type that gives me biggest bang for the buck. Amazon's own pricing page is still very confusing, and ec2instances.info is great but it is a static website and ad
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Show HN: EC2 prices per GB of memory(instaguide.io)
113 points by bzz01 9y ago|49 comments
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by bzz01 10y ago
> Another mistake was that when originally released Python 3 did not offer enough shiny new things to convince people that going through the pain of upgrading was worthwhile. This is the core issue, but you're putting cart before ho
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by bzz01 11y ago
C++ is a pretty low bar, to be honest. But yeah Delphi was awesome!
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by bzz01 11y ago
That one sounds fairly similar to manslaughter, no? My understanding is that logically there's that basic framework of required specific intent, then there are a few crimes that allow prosecuting for negligence, then very few crimes wi
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by bzz01 11y ago
Good point. One answer is that manslaughter is already a special case, as it doesn't require intent to kill anyway, only negligence.
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by bzz01 11y ago
> Cisco continues to dominate routers, despite China's attempt to steal from them and clone their products. Huawei revenues are already on par with Cisco, at least that one worked out pretty well.
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by bzz01 11y ago
Come on, if that was true they would never be able to hire tens of thousands of engineers. They do have high false negative rate (by design) but it is far from impossible to pass. I personally know a ton of people who were hired by Google a
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by bzz01 11y ago
If you are reducing the number of shares outstanding from 32,000,000 to 400,000, it is 80:1 not 8:1 reverse split. In your example, employee would have 100 not 1000 shares post split, and still would gain $6K.
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by bzz01 11y ago
So of course I'm generalizing, not everyone is like that, not everyone's CS degree is like that, etc. etc. Also, more true for recent grads. But in my experience people with advanced "pure CS" degrees seem to be focused
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by bzz01 11y ago
I guess author assumes that if you don't know basic things like that, it is questionable that your degree is a proof that you "can learn a field etc." Not sure that I agree on the choice of this specific "red flag";
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by bzz01 11y ago
Frankly it is a bit weird way to describe it. It is not some quirks of liquidation preferences that "ruined" it. It is ruined by a simple fact that this hypothetical startup earned just 50 cents for every dollar raised -- I don&#x
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by bzz01 11y ago
I don't think it was free, but again entire Microsoft toolchain wasn't free in 90s, so nothing special about C here.
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by bzz01 11y ago
>Things are getting better. In what sense? MS platform had a working C compiler for decades.
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by bzz01 11y ago
Google/Facebook/Apple may not be as concerned by this as you may think; strategically, they would probably be happy if slow decline of advertising income on desktop would eventually make every publisher to move to walled gardens o
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by bzz01 11y ago
You can't really use KD trees with lat/lon coordinates, at least you can't use euclidean distance there for nearest neighbor search. First, longitude wraps from -180 to +180 at antimeridian, meaning distance calculations will
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by bzz01 12y ago
As an engineer with ten years of software dev experience who interviews quite a lot of candidates for my current team, I'd say don't overthink this. BigO, data structures and having a good idea how computers work, what matters for
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by bzz01 12y ago
While all maps like this tend to make little practical sense since they inevitably over-generalize and over-simplify things, I'd still like to point out that they got "columnar" category quite wrong: neither HBase nor Cassand
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by bzz01 12y ago
There is no need to guess, data published by Dept of Labor (original source for this infographic) includes company names, specific position names and exact salaries. Glassdoor was including that info in their estimates for a while though, s
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by bzz01 12y ago
I've seen these talks from CCC few years ago, tried that myself (on myself) and SS7 only gave MSC id, which is wayy more coarse than cell tower level -- like, 1M customers per MSC (still a privacy concern of course). But that city bloc
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by bzz01 12y ago
For STEM fields (esp. software) it was relatively easy to get H1B visa until 2013, yet very few people (think couple thousands per year) actually did that compared to 1990s if you look at USCIS stats.