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Bristling Against the West, China Rallies Sympathy for Russia(nytimes.com)
10 points by samspenc 5y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Looks like title has been edited, the original title is: "TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Made Fake Accounts With Content Scraped From Instagram And Snapchat, Former Employees Say" (probably too long for HN) It's important to not
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by samspenc 5y ago
I do hope they have a more detailed RCA at some point, right now this is the only helpful paragraph in the article about what happened: > The IT failure occurred at the end of the morning. It affected the system that generates up-to-date
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by samspenc 5y ago
I wonder whether there is a HN algorithm involved in the order; I've seen this happen to other polls, and genuinely interested in understanding what happens to the ordering.
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by samspenc 5y ago
> but their free vm has no capacity left in all regions it is the Standard_B1s vm size. As an aside on this topic, I'm finding that they don't have capacity for some paid VM types as well in some regions. If I'm looking
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by samspenc 5y ago
Curious, is this happening across all of FB / Meta, or some specific orgs like AR/VR, AI/ML, Labs etc?
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by samspenc 5y ago
A couple of things I found helpful along those lines: * Data storage: what does the schema look like? Even if it is not persisted to a relational DB, is it possible to draw out a schema of a data model and all the relationships ("JOINS
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Yale University IT admin spent $40M college money on luxury cars, houses(marketwatch.com)
98 points by samspenc 5y ago|40 comments
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Biden to Propose New Minimum Tax of 20% on Wealthiest Americans(wsj.com)
7 points by samspenc 5y ago|6 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Just a solitary data point here, but I notice almost all of the designers I've worked with at any company or agency exclusively use Apple products (iPhones and Macs)
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by samspenc 5y ago
Doesn't Alexa collect the same amount of information as Google Home or other "smart products"? I'm not pro-Google or Amazon (quite the opposite actually), I just don't use any "smart" products (expect for
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China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs now spreading rumors Moderna created Covid(twitter.com)
4 points by samspenc 5y ago|1 comments
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What makes developers happy at work(stackoverflow.blog)
9 points by samspenc 5y ago|4 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Was wondering the same thing, honestly the only brand that stood out was Airbnb, I haven't heard of most of the others.
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by samspenc 5y ago
Very sorry to hear it didn't work out. Could you share how you got over it? Any other advice / experience that might be helpful for others?
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Husband and Wife Entrepreneurs Mint Separate Unicorn Companies Within a Year(bloomberg.com)
4 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
All Facebook links have had a fbclid added to them for years now for the same reason, that's where I remember seeing these first.
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by samspenc 5y ago
+1 as a heavy Calendly user (with plenty of friends who also use Calendly), I initially mistook this for a post promoting Calendly.
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by samspenc 5y ago
> We don't use aggregators like Yodlee or Plaid ... users never share their brokerage auth credentials with us, and your data doesn't get pushed to any of our servers. Could you clarify how you are doing this? I've found t
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by samspenc 5y ago
1 lakh rupees = 100,000 rupees = USD $1311 (as of this morning)
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by samspenc 5y ago
Or a low-cost option with ads. Hulu and others already do this, and Disney+ just announced that it would be trying a similar model.
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by samspenc 5y ago
I started on my Blender journey just a few weeks ago and I've been delighted by it so far. Blender is really a creator's dream come true. Blender Guru and CG Geek are my favorite Youtube channels for Blender tutorials and they bot
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by samspenc 5y ago
Minor fix, I believe CR is crores: 7 crore INR = 70,000,000 INR = USD $900,000 Your edit seems to refer to: 7 lakh INR = 700,000 INR = USD $9000
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Largest shock wave in universe 60 times larger than Milky Way(space.com)
12 points by samspenc 5y ago|3 comments
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Why the Chinese Internet Is Cheering Russia’s Invasion(nytimes.com)
14 points by samspenc 5y ago|14 comments
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Microsoft will fully reopen in Washington state starting Feb 28(geekwire.com)
3 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
It would be interesting to see this with the commodity prices adjusted for inflation. Also this report has commodities interspersed with fiscal / monetary items such as bond purchases, rates and Fed holdings as well. I'm not sure
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by samspenc 5y ago
Netflix just raised monthly prices a few days ago. I guess investors have voted with their feet now, and decided that the price uptick is not going to make up for the slowing subscriber growth.
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Earth's interior is cooling faster than expected(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Title on the webpage now reads, hope someone can update this HN post: "Google, Facebook CEOs oversaw illegal ad auction deal that gave Facebook an advantage, states allege"

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