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Azure Databricks Pricing Error
2 points by sepiasaucer 4y ago|0 comments
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by sepiasaucer 4y ago
From Matt Levine: “Doesn’t that Journal story sound a bit like that? I mean here is a story you could tell: 1. You have 1,000 Bitcoin worth about $17 million. 2. You want to buy more Bitcoin, but you do not have any dollars. 3. You go to Te
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Ask HN: Recommended reading for/against possibility of AGI
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by sepiasaucer 4y ago
A [crypto] Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing [crypto] investors with funds collected from new [crypto] investors.
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by sepiasaucer 4y ago
Sounds like a cool place to work! I interned at SpaceX in undergrad and worked at ONERA while getting PhD. I work as Data Sci now. I see an open Data Sci position that looks like good fit. Do you think I could negotiate for being remote or
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Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact
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by sepiasaucer 4y ago
Seems like maybe you would want to teach kids about safe smartphone use instead of abstinence only
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by sepiasaucer 4y ago
I don’t understand what point you are trying to make. Specific stocks being bad investments is not an argument against passive investing. The whole point of index funds is to diversify your portfolio so you track the overall market, not an
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by sepiasaucer 4y ago
If employees are “hybrid” without mandatory attendance, then I think most people won’t go into office. I work in a smaller satellite office and if you randomly go to office you may be only person there. I think employers thought “hybrid” wa
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Four pricey NFTs stolen from actor Seth Green(web3isgoinggreat.com)
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by sepiasaucer 4y ago
I don’t think you could easily prove Twitter is materially misrepresenting the number of bot/spam accounts. Presumably, it is just an estimate based on some combination of assumptions and statistical analysis. You might be able to crea
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Analysis: Musk's new Twitter funding could draw TikTok-like U.S. scrutiny(reuters.com)
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Musk’s Twitter ambitions to collide with Europe’s tech rules(apnews.com)
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“A Honeypot for Assholes”: Twitter’s 10-Year Failure to Stop Harassment (2016)(buzzfeednews.com)
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by sepiasaucer 4y ago
I believe they (Twitter etc) are working on moderation. I do not know if that is their core competency or if they want to be in the content moderation business. I was wondering if a 3rd party might provide content moderation as a service. T
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What solutions to content moderation would be better than Elon Musk’s?
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by sepiasaucer 5y ago
I would focus more on the enabling technology for this scam (e.g., how would a victim transfer $300,000 using traditional financial system? how they might recover those funds if needed?)
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Crypto Scammers’ New Target: Dating Apps(nytimes.com)
27 points by sepiasaucer 5y ago|5 comments
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by sepiasaucer 5y ago
“One can, in theory, start with lots of architectures, then optimize each one and pick the best. “But training [takes] a pretty nontrivial amount of time,” said Mengye Ren, now a visiting researcher at Google Brain. It’d be impossible to tr
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by sepiasaucer 5y ago
“Where does that fit in your categories?” It sounds like it falls mostly under illegal transactions because you are using crypto for something that would otherwise be illegal (avoiding capital controls). Is it technically illegal? I don’t k
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by sepiasaucer 5y ago
In the absence of a stable government backed currency it seems cryptocurrency could have some value. However, cryptocurrency is also unstable. You are speculating that holding crypto will be better over some period of time than any alternat
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by sepiasaucer 5y ago
IMO the technology blockchain has only demonstrated success in 1 application which is cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency has only demonstrated success in 2 applications: speculative investment and illegal online purchases. I would include NFT’s
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by sepiasaucer 5y ago
People are commenting on the quality of Door Dash predictions, but that isn’t what the article is about. The article is just about the architecture for high speed/throughput of prediction requests. I would be interested in knowing how
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Peloton pauses production on bikes, treadmills(apnews.com)
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by sepiasaucer 5y ago
Couldn’t git lfs handle large non-textual files? How does SVN hand large non-textual files?
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Accelerate R Code with Intel OneAPI Math Kernel Library(intel.com)
2 points by sepiasaucer 5y ago|0 comments