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Truepill’s latest funding boosts valuation to $1.6B for B2B side of healthcare(techcrunch.com)
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by mjirv 5y ago
I would recommend that SWEs who feel this way but still like coding try their hand at data science/data analytics/analytics engineering. We're still early enough in the data world that it's easy to find that sense of own
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Expecting More from Your Career (and Less from Your Job)(cate.blog)
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by mjirv 5y ago
> If we didn't care about fighting harmful content, then why would we employ so many more people dedicated to this than any other company in our space -- even ones larger than us? Maybe I am missing something obvious, but who is he
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by mjirv 5y ago
Are these numbers for an average US franchise or am I misunderstanding? If so, it would make sense that for the average franchise, doubling salary wouldn't be viable. But surely there's a distribution where some stores are much mo
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by mjirv 5y ago
Interesting question. If this succeeded beyond my wildest dreams I’d expect the main impact to be on data analysts and freeing up their time to be spent on more in-depth projects rather than one-off requests. In general I suspect AI tools l
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by mjirv 5y ago
Thanks, I really appreciate that feedback!
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by mjirv 5y ago
Ah yeah that’s a good example of something it can’t do well. Right now you have to give more context, e.g. “How many orders were placed by someone named Howard?” works for me. Thanks for sharing about Seektable. Neat that you’ve already bui
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by mjirv 5y ago
For those having trouble with the URL, you can also use http://acolytehq.com
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by mjirv 5y ago
Hi all, I've spent the past 4 years working as a data analyst and analytics engineer. One of the biggest pain points for analysts is that, even with tools like Looker and Tableau, they still spend a ton of time answering fairly simple
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Show HN: Acolyte – Query your data warehouse in plain English(acolytehq.com)
6 points by mjirv 5y ago|9 comments
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by mjirv 5y ago
As a current Looker power-user, this looks really solid. One thing I’m not sure about though: can you use the metrics outside of the native tool, and if so how? That is, I see Looker as a BI tool, not a metrics layer, since you mainly use t
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by mjirv 5y ago
At this point, Covid is with us to stay. The authors are clearly right about that. But I'm not sure that has the policy implications they think it does. No one in the US (or outside of Australia/NZ/parts of Asia) have really
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by mjirv 5y ago
I like that this lets you join CSVs, which a lot of tools in this space don’t.
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Show HN: Unit test your data warehouse SQL with dbt(github.com)
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by mjirv 5y ago
Analytics Engineer is a clear one for this, as teej said. The title is strongly associated with the dbt community, so it could imply you’re using dbt for your data modeling (not necessarily a bad thing, as it sounds like it would be a good
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dbt Labs raises Series C at $1.5b(blog.getdbt.com)
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by mjirv 6y ago
I’m happy to see this launch. We use Census for the same thing (mostly to get data from Redshift into Salesforce), but there don’t seem to be that many other companies who do this well. I am interested to see how long it’ll take someone lik
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Abbott's BinaxNOW At-Home Rapid Test Receives FDA EUA(abbott.mediaroom.com)
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by mjirv 6y ago
Hey everyone! I started working on the idea behind Contextual after becoming a bit disillusioned with the current state of AdTech, especially the tech being created as a response to GDPR and browsers dropping 3rd-party cookies. I used to wo
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Contextual: Advertise without 3rd-party tracking(cntxtual.com)
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by mjirv 6y ago
These kinds of articles always make me think about how big a privacy risk the laws that make these possible are. We're worried about user privacy, so we mandate that companies build a way to connect PII to otherwise-pseudonymous brows
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Our Educational Colonialism(americancompass.org)
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Frequent, fast, and cheap is better than sensitive(marginalrevolution.com)
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by mjirv 6y ago
It is worth clarifying that she was not responding to this paper specifically, just to general arguments of the type “this must be man made because it has so many features that make it well-suited to spread in humans.” The fact that researc
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by mjirv 6y ago
Epidemiologist Ellie Murray said it better than I could, so I’ll just quote her: “Yes, the chance of a virus like SARS-CoV-2 suddenly arising is fairly low. That’s why we have so few pandemics!! But conditional on being in a pandemic the
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by mjirv 6y ago
Thanks! Users can add new RSS feeds already, though it’s a bit hidden. If you click the “New Collection” Button, there’s a link at the bottom of the pop-up that says “Don’t see your favorite blog or website? Add it here” which lets you add
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by mjirv 6y ago
It’s something I’d like to do, since I’ve noticed using it on my phone isn’t the best experience (though also not the worst-hopefully it’s the same on other kinds of phones! Let me know if not). It’ll probably be the next big “feature” I wo
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by mjirv 6y ago
Thanks! I actually hadn’t come across Memeorandum before, but it looks neat. I like its simplicity as well, and the previews it shows. One issue I ran into making this is that not all RSS feeds seem to contain descriptions, so it was hard t
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by mjirv 6y ago
Thank you, I’m happy you like it! Glad my laziness as a developer is also appreciated haha.

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