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by cldellow 7y ago
It might vary by location. I grew up in rural British Columbia and homeschooled for a year due to a family feud with the local grade six teacher. The other homeschooled kids I interacted with were homeschooled for religious reasons or so th
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by cldellow 7y ago
Wikipedia does about 200 billion pageviews a year. At $80,000,000/year, one penny buys them 25 pageviews. Yeah, there's room for some efficiencies here. I say this as someone who donated $1,000 a long time ago and then realized th
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by cldellow 7y ago
"Hyperscaler" does have a meaning in the data centre world, and their use of it here speaks to the benefits they hope to deliver, so it's not 100% a marketing buzzword.
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by cldellow 7y ago
This is exciting! I use AWS's existing a1 generation for map-reduce jobs on the Common Crawl. They're slower in absolute terms than the Intel-based c5 generation, but are cheaper on a $/GB-processed basis. This is despite my
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by cldellow 7y ago
That's a fair point. Ask the _maintainers_ of the project, not a random person on the Internet.
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by cldellow 7y ago
The GnuNet people have an entire page detailing ways to get involved: https://gnunet.org/en/engage.html But in general, just ask! Whenever someone posts a thoughtful comment, question or patch to one of my open source
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by cldellow 7y ago
There's a case to be made that Canada's democratic institutions could be improved. The two that come to mind are the appointed Senate and the use of first-past-the-post voting. In my experience, no Canadians feel that Nunavut (or
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by cldellow 7y ago
Hey, that's me, actually. Thanks for calling it pretty neat! As I mention on the about page, this is really just stringing a bunch of existing tools together, so most of the credit goes to those folks: - the Graphviz contributors for c
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by cldellow 7y ago
I was travelling this past summer and enormously frustrated by the crappy DSL in the place I was renting. I was doing a lot of work with AWS Lambda, which meant uploading big zip/JAR files to S3 semi-regularly. Each upload destroyed th
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Show HN: S3patch – update files on S3 by patching them, not replacing them(s3patch.com)
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by cldellow 7y ago
Re the CTE optimization boundary comment: this changed in Postgres 12! By default, they are no longer a boundary. You can change the behaviour on a per-query level, too. As always, depesz has an article going into the details: https:/
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by cldellow 7y ago
If you're doing a SPA, you can paper over the cold starts a bit, since the app itself will render, and it'll be background requests to load data that are impacted. That still sucks, so then you can (hopefully) cache some things so
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by cldellow 7y ago
I can understand your concern, as it's often raised by conscientious people when women interviewers mention this. While I can't speak for the specific people at Honeycomb, this request for clarification usually results in the inte
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by cldellow 7y ago
Eh, perhaps not as phrased, but it's a scientific claim made by the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C. From the chapter 3.3.6: > There is thus limited evidence that the global number of tropical cyclones will be lower u
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by cldellow 7y ago
My last two resignations: - "As discussed, this is my notice of resignation effective February 28." - "Further to our conversation, this email confirms my resignation from <X> effective today." The interesting conv
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by cldellow 7y ago
Agreed, there's lots of work to do in public prison reform, too. FWIW, the judges you mention are probably the two in the Kids for cash scandal [1]. They're currently serving sentences ranging from 17 to 28 years. Good riddance. [
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by cldellow 7y ago
I think the argument would be something like this: Renting on Airbnb has the effect of subsidizing this one person's housing, not of subsidizing the community's housing. If the goal is to use Airbnb to increase social housing oppo
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by cldellow 7y ago
Programs that manipulate binary files are common vectors for attacks. A malformed file can trick even well-written and well-tested parsers into executing code that they shouldn't, or corrupting aspects of the user's environment. F
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by cldellow 7y ago
Elsewhere, the contract notes: "Any changes to the reservation may impact the rental charges." Which is what will happen here. They'll charge you this fee, but also adjust the base rental charges to much higher rates that ref
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by cldellow 7y ago
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/in-3-month... has a bit more info. You can find the census for Uttarkashi district at https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s3ef575e8837d065a1683c022d2077d342.
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by cldellow 7y ago
You're graded only in part by aligning with the proposal. You're also graded on innovation, technical depth and software design. The TAs compare it to figure skating / high diving -- you should be able to say what you can do,
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by cldellow 7y ago
Sorry, yes, I could have expanded on that. You're right, they provide health benefits, in theory. My experience with the US health care system is that there is a wide gulf in health benefits. When I worked for Microsoft in the late 200
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by cldellow 7y ago
That's true, the article says Cognizant offers "a 24/7 hotline, full healthcare benefits, and other wellness programs". But at the same time, it quotes the on-site counsellor as having said "I don’t really know how
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by cldellow 7y ago
> There would be minimum working condition requirement enforced by labor department. Yeah, this is basically what I'm saying. :) Labour codes are developed over time. In the beginning, it's the wild west. Want to be a janitor a
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by cldellow 7y ago
Yes, I should perhaps clarify - I mentioned developers to point out that Facebook has the resources to provide excellent working conditions. If I can adapt (and perhaps torture) your analogy, I'd say it's like Facebook currently h
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by cldellow 7y ago
I don't know! It's conjecture in the first place. I assume _some_ ML is used - presumably (hopefully!) not all stuff that goes to moderators is because of a human flag, some of it is an ML model. I can imagine, though, that there
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by cldellow 7y ago
If Facebook repeatedly permits copyright infringement on the same video, they might get sued by the rightsholder, which might be a very wealthy company with experience enforcing its rights in courts. In they repeatedly make a $30,000/y
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by cldellow 7y ago
I don't have first-hand experience with the job, but I've read a few articles about these sort of teams, as they're widely deployed by all the large Internet companies. In my view, it's knowledge work. Sure, it's kn
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by cldellow 7y ago
The article implies strongly that Facebook prefers to focus on the short term task of blocking offensive content and only pays lip service to the long term task of pursuing criminal charges. I'd definitely believe that that is the case
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by cldellow 7y ago
This was a valuable article to read. Facebook is enormously valuable. They made something like $15B in net income in the last four quarters. Content moderators are a necessary condition for that profit. If kiddie porn, gore and animal cruel

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