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by jsty 7y ago
Compiling SQL -> native I'm not sure deserves to be described as niche, since lots of analytical queries can benefit from that. Worth pointing out that Postgres has a JIT compiler [0]. [0] https://www.postgresql.org/
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by jsty 7y ago
You'd also have to consider the likelihood of one getting through your laser defences, and what the cost of protecting your country with these would be. If you have a 99% chance of stopping a missile, but your adversary has tens or hun
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by jsty 7y ago
I'm also curious about this - from what I remember from the relevant bits of history lessons, the early antitrust laws were enacted at least in part to quash the price-fixing of guilds. Unions have rights to conduct in collective barga
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by jsty 7y ago
When they themselves have repurposed the name, can we really be surprised that someone else chooses to do so? Perhaps there are outraged Greek scholars out there fuming at "those damn Physicists" for getting in the way of their se
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by jsty 7y ago
Given that 2500 n1-standard-1 preemptible instances in us-central-1 would cost a grand total of $25/hr, it's certainly not a 'must be Google or taller' requirement
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by jsty 7y ago
They wouldn't be 'high profile' thanks to the strong anonymity protections, but some whistleblower programmes can be - how shall we say - fairly rewarding [0]. The SEC's may not be typical of whistleblower programmes in
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by jsty 7y ago
Given the technical aptitude of most politicians in the UK, he may equally likely have used a government-issued device
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by jsty 7y ago
I'd imagine they probably want to collect a good sample of data from their prospective customers to ensure it works across a broad range of businesses before going fully automated. They could do this by going round loads of small busin
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by jsty 7y ago
There's a big difference between 'pleasant to be around' and the stereotypical 'Mr Nice Guy' who goes out of his way to do anything and everything he thinks someone might want or need. Simply bothering to learn some
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by jsty 7y ago
As with most bureaucratic procedures, there was probably one person, one time, who went absolutely nuts and tried to wipe all corporate data / attack every coworker they never liked / ... after giving notice. Many very serious mee
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by jsty 7y ago
Given the price differential between subscribing and on-stand, I'd imagine most of their regular readership has paid before ink hits paper.
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by jsty 7y ago
OTOH, a lot of those markets coming on stream might have a lot of "zero-rated" providers - Google makes a lot of money from ads when people search on the open internet. Less so when most of their activity is restricted to a few ap
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by jsty 7y ago
Whether or not it was the intention here, leaving a common or garden vulnerability as a backdoor gives excellent plausible deniability. "Whoops, we overlooked that" is much easier to explain away than an obviously designed remote
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by jsty 7y ago
Depending on which country you and your employing entity are in, this could end up netting you all of the disadvantages of self-employment with none of the benefits. E.g. in the UK, HMRC will determine your tax status based on, amongst othe
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by jsty 7y ago
2016 was listed as an annualised death rate of 6.4 per 1000 people [0], giving a baseline of 0.64% for the Indonesian population [0] http://world.bymap.org/DeathRate.html
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by jsty 7y ago
As ever, Matt Levine comes in handy here: "The law doesn’t say that any time you trade on material nonpublic information it’s illegal. The law, to oversimplify a complicated area, makes it illegal to trade on material nonpublic informa
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by jsty 7y ago
If you think of a "digital business" as one that involves accepting user content, then being forced to identify those users and moderate their output could be a disadvantage compared to competitors in more 'liberal' (i.e
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by jsty 7y ago
Anything that saves a single engineer-year of effort, or less than half an engineer-year in a high COL area. Which for quite a lot of large companies, would cover their internal comms stack. It probably vanishes in comparison to, say, what
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by jsty 7y ago
Is there going to be much of their data they hold on you that they’d be able to delete? I’d imagine most of it would be required to be retained under various financial regulations, which would override your rights to removal.
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by jsty 7y ago
Something along those lines seems to be in the works: https://blog.bazel.build/2018/10/05/remote-build-execution.h...
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by jsty 7y ago
Fortran users of HN - what are the best resources (online / books / ...) to pick up Fortran in 2019? Are there any open source codebases you'd consider as good to read through?
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by jsty 7y ago
Firstly, that does sound fairly insane. Barring any unusual computational requirements, your data is several orders of magnitude smaller than the 'big data' stack it seems like you're using. If you can quickly set up a simple
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by jsty 7y ago
https://qz.com/1417818/hard-to-read-fonts-can-help-boost-you... Here's a font designed to leverage the effect for improving recall
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by jsty 8y ago
In fairness, all other things being equal, wouldn't you move for a 20% pay rise? Especially at the more junior level, where that kind of increase could probably afford them a significant boost in living standards.
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by jsty 8y ago
I might be mis-reading the article, but it doesn't indicate that the policy on requiring pre-extradition guarantees against the death penalty since the people in question were never extradited from the UK in the first place. As they&#x
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by jsty 8y ago
GCP has had global load balancing for a while now, which IIRC is anycast based. This is more their equivalent of App Mesh.
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Google staff call out treatment of temp workers in 'historic' show of solidarity(theguardian.com)
22 points by jsty 8y ago|4 comments
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by jsty 8y ago
You could reward them in the same way that executives are increasingly remunerated for their performance-based pay - in shares or other financial instruments with an enforced holding period that are linked to the health of the business &#x2
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by jsty 8y ago
The BBC quotes it at around 400 per day [0] to build up fatal levels of potassium in a healthy individual. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34225517
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Defining “sustainable” for an open-source project(lwn.net)
2 points by jsty 8y ago|0 comments

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