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by faizshah 7y ago
Every few years we all say there needs to be a new reddit but the reddit alternatives out there always devolve into places no regular person wants to join. I think there’s a balance between centralized moderation and allowing creativity and
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by faizshah 7y ago
Did you guys ever evaluate Que? What made you choose QueueClassic?
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Oral History of Ken Thompson (2005) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
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by faizshah 7y ago
Yup, the reason I posted this was the great discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484215
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Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs per second (2013)(gist.github.com)
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by faizshah 7y ago
"My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive" (Bad: 0.9970 - Good: 0.0029)
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by faizshah 7y ago
"I enjoy politics at work" (Bad: 0.0024 - Good: 0.9971) I think the AI needs a little work
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by faizshah 7y ago
Darn looks like im stuck with colab. Well at least I can use dask on the bus :)
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by faizshah 7y ago
What is the state of deep learning on AMD? Is this GPU usable with pytorch?
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by faizshah 7y ago
How is the trackpad on there? I bought a thinkpad since at least the keyboard is as good as my mbp 2012 but the trackpad is horrible.
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by faizshah 7y ago
Does anyone know of any datasets of moderation logs? Or some way to collect moderation log data for reddit?
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by faizshah 7y ago
> it can sometimes have much worse performance than an explicit chunking strategy Can you expand on this? I haven’t heard this before. Edit: Found a comprehensive discussion on this https://stackoverflow.com/questions&#x2
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by faizshah 7y ago
I was also interested, here's the latest update: https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Regular-releases-for-l... It doesn't look like there's been a release since May 2017 though.
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by faizshah 7y ago
I was looking into python task queuing recently, here's some other choices from my notes: https://github.com/malthe/pq - postgres queue based on rq and ruby queue_classic https://github.com/coleife
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by faizshah 7y ago
Another of his lecture notes on Theoretical Stats was posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21468493
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by faizshah 7y ago
You're right, looking more closely this text seems to mirror the content of these lecture notes: Weak Convergence and Empirical Processes by Vaart and Wellner Additionally, this assigned book list from a past section: https:/&#x2
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by faizshah 7y ago
I can't find the textbook this specific professor assigned but the assigned textbooks for this semester's section are: Testing Statistical Hypotheses (Cl) by Lehmann Theory Of Point Estimation by Lehmann Theoretical Statistics by
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by faizshah 7y ago
> Who wouldn't say they'd consider it? "By comparison, only 9 percent of baby boomers (those between the ages of 54 and 72) would." > Now how many actually do? Not that many, for sure. Conjecture at best.
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by faizshah 7y ago
Citing a logical fallacy doesn’t make a statement false. There’s numerous sources supporting this(note that these are 3 different surveys from 3 different sources from 3 different years all showing the same result): ”Nearly nine out of ten,
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by faizshah 7y ago
I suspect when companies start doing that you’ll see more people in our industry avoiding these unethical companies. It’s a fact that young people are demanding more ethical workplaces, even finance is adapting to the new labour market.
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At any school in the system the top performers would be in advanced classes and receiving the top education at that school. We are talking about public schools, everyone pays taxes for these schools not just the families of the top performe
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by faizshah 7y ago
It's worth mentioning that gifted and talented schools also put all the top test takers into a small number of schools within a system taking away AP opportunities and other funding from other schools within the system. Additionally, o
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by faizshah 7y ago
Ibis: https://docs.ibis-project.org/ https://docs.ibis-project.org/notebooks/tutorial/2-Basics-Ag...
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I have struggled with this kind of self defeating attitude for a while now. I think it comes down to the fact that everyone has to start somewhere, if you spent all the years you spent thinking about doing something actually doing the thing
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by faizshah 7y ago
How do daily newspaper reporters pull off writing so consistently? Don't the smaller newspaper reporters write several articles a day?
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by faizshah 7y ago
Specifically what more secure software? Im looking for a secure messenger now.
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by faizshah 7y ago
What makes prefect stand out is the highly pythonic API and the powerful primitives for defining failure scenarios. Additionally, for me, integrating with dask is key as dask has become one of my main tools. Heres a rewrite of the airflow t
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by faizshah 7y ago
I have started using prefect.io as a workflow runner. It helps me define tasks and deeply define what should happen on failure of a task including cleaning up a cluster. Because Tasks are just functions you could test your tasks with regula
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by faizshah 7y ago
HN is pretty niche. In some countries like the phillipines, most internet users stay on Facebook for almost their entire session. Even so their internet is filtered through Facebook Basics (and one could make the argument our internet is fi
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Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable(oreilly.com)
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