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by padthai 2y ago
It is up again, as why it was down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40061362
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by padthai 3y ago
> 1. Jobs with minimal responsibilities pay minimal salary This is so wrong, I cannot even take seriously the rest of the points.
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by padthai 3y ago
Nobody cares about them operating payment network. They care about them blocking other companies to do so.
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by padthai 3y ago
They get 0.15% of the transaction from the card issuer. And they do not allow card issuers to use the hardware on their own.
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by padthai 3y ago
Which kind of ensemble? Because it cannot be as easy as a voting meta model of nn with same architecture/hyperparametres right?
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by padthai 3y ago
Sent is not compatible with sharing screen with Teams in MacOS. This actually got me into trouble.
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Alexei Navalny Dies in Prison(amp.theguardian.com)
57 points by padthai 3y ago|10 comments
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by padthai 3y ago
He is talking about the card network, your fees include the card issuer and other things
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by padthai 3y ago
Interesting that they feel that they are “trailing in AI”. The second that they cannot just repackage open source and integrate it in their infra, they throw hands in the air.
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by padthai 3y ago
Would you mind to elaborate? It is the first time I hear a pipe can be used for setting the class/title.
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by padthai 5y ago
I have not read all the book yet, but it definitely talks about some of these things (12factor app, canaries, scaling, logging, etc.). It is a review of the most fundamental tools and strategies in Red Hat flavored Linux distros. Things lik
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by padthai 5y ago
I am working through the book right now. It touches a lot of things, albeit superficially, to get you up and running. I have done plenty of deployments in the past so I do not need half of the book, but it has been helpful to put into cont
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by padthai 5y ago
I would argue that the birth of Gemini and the (timid) Gopher revival have to do with this. They are very far from being mainstream though.
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by padthai 5y ago
A better link: http://archive.today/qYueR
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by padthai 5y ago
Before Brexit it was free for all the EU/EEA/CH... but not for England, Wales, Norther Ireland. I always though it was quite fun detail.
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by padthai 5y ago
Like: Stability. Their scale-as-you-go foundational products (S3, EC2, DynamoDB, ...) are amazing, full stop. Dislike: A billion products, most of them half-baked, terrible DX, terrible documentation, pricing all over the place. Examples: r
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by padthai 5y ago
It would be great if some front-end developer can chime in to tell us which frameworks are worth trying besides Bootstrap (Tailwind?), or it is all yak shaving. Currently I only reach to another framework if: - I want something lightweight
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by padthai 5y ago
Not an expert here, but cannot you tree shake Bootstrap too? https://medium.com/@jacobp100/tree-shaking-bootstrap-95d6301...
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by padthai 5y ago
Too late cannot edit. Where I put GDP, please read GBP.
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by padthai 5y ago
> The UK only has one of those problems: property costs. University education in UK (sans Scotland) has gone from zero to GDP 9k a year in fees, the average debt per student is GDP 35k. I know that this quantity and the associated condit
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by padthai 5y ago
> My question is: what happens after people pass fizz buzz? We tune up a little bit the difficulty. The point is to start a conversation and see what the candidate knows about, ¿does he knows about time complexity?¿differences between pa
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by padthai 5y ago
I interview for my company. 80% of the DS applicants (some of them with SWE background) that apply for our senior positions fail with FizzBuzz or some riddle of similar difficulty. This is already pre-filtering for seniors from established
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by padthai 5y ago
Part of the spam is clearly condoned by Google, probably for a mix of reasons. An example is Pinterest, Google can drop or deprioritize their properties, like they do with other actors. But for some reason they do not. Maybe they are scared
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by padthai 5y ago
I use Forvo for this, it is great: https://forvo.com/
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by padthai 5y ago
Some of them do not want to know anything about unions, this is a common opinion among the American public. Other would like, or even try. But Amazon management, an enormous American corporations, are determined to not allow to do so. Amazo
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by padthai 5y ago
Mathematica is at least ~$1.5k/year, ~$3k if you want only the desktop application, no WolframAlpha-like features. Licenses on the desktop are not per user, but per machine (8 core limitation). If you want to move the installation to a
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by padthai 5y ago
R is first and foremost an interactive language, and the focus of the libraries, tooling, and community reflects that. I believe working in pandas/sklearn/jupyter ecosystem is much slower (>50%) if you are doing EDA and statist
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by padthai 5y ago
> I would be shocked if more than 5% of pirates intended to purchase genuine copies of the media they actually liked I agree, but I think this actually depends on the media. I do buy my technical books ($50-$150/a piece), but I want
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by padthai 5y ago
Inditex (Zara) is a juggernaut compared with Gap or Primark. The differences in scale of operations, targeting, and branding are massive. It is like comparing AWS with Cloudera.
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by padthai 5y ago
> small companies do not posses datasets worthy of exploration Or with a cash flow for a permanent position. Tech workers are used to be in companies with healthy gross margins and revenue where they make sense (theoretically at least).

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