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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
I wonder what happens to folks like Ninja with big exclusive deals.
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June 19, 1981: ISRO Launches India's First Communications Satellite(honestyisbest.com)
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
If you want to target ads, which is where the majority of the money in 'data' comes from, personal data about rich people that helps target ads to them is a lot more valuable than personal data about poor people.
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
In a weird way, this would be a regressive policy -- the data of the richest people is worth orders of magnitude more, so this would just make the rich, well, richer. Increasing corporate tax rates would help the poor much more.
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
It was, for a time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Buddhism_in_the_I...
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
I think there is no alternative but for the west to tie itself closely to India if they want liberal democracy to prevail. India is deeply flawed, but has a deep and abiding affinity for democracy, and a polity that is sophisticated about t
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
Seems like this is analogous to YC's SAFE. I hope this takes off -- this would have already saved thousands of dollars of lawyer time for us, a small startup that is less than a year old.
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
We're not on Spotify at the moment. We are on Apple Podcasts and most other players, and you should be able to import the RSS feed directly into most players as well. My personal recommendation is Podcast Addict ( https://pod
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
My brother and I launched a newsletter called Today in Indian History. Four times a week, we lay out the context and consequences of an event in India's past that happened on that date. https://honestyisbest.com/today-i
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Today in Indian History: June 21, 2006 – India and China Reopen Nathu La Pass(honestyisbest.com)
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
Hey folks, I'm Soham, the host of Segfault, a podcast mapping the terrain of Computer Science research. The first episode, available at https://honestyisbest.com/segfault/2020/Jun/16/programming-l...
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Show HN: Segfault, a podcast mapping the field of computer science(honestyisbest.com)
42 points by sohamsankaran 6y ago|3 comments
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Trends and Patterns in Intermarriage(pewsocialtrends.org)
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
Yep, it's pretty clear they use IBM db2 on z/OS internally for some applications. Here's an example job posting: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Aqb9oU...
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
I think there's a place for alternate representations like these outside of proofs that need to be exhaustively machine-checkable. I have, for what it's worth, had far better experiences with Coq and the like than with mathematics
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
For me, each of those text based representations is more clear, despite their divergence, than the symbolic version. I have a lot of frustration with this notion of the "visually evident formal properties of the integral" -- I thi
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
This is not even true across subfields in mathematics -- there's a lot of context-specific notational overloading, and there is often inconsistent notation even within a single long paper.
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
I would pay a fairly large chunk of my income to someone working on this kind of alternate representation of mathematics full-time. Email me at soham [at] soh.am if you're interested.
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
SQLite is incredible, especially for embedded applications. It's one of those perfectly-scoped tiny pieces of software that consistently makes my heart sing.
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
Incredible -- was this under-the-desk database fairly recent or quite a while ago? I'd love to hear the story if you or someone else familiar with it is willing to share.
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
Fascinating. Are they intending to use this for core transactional workloads? How do they intend to deal with Mongo's (many) known consistency issues?
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
I am not a fan of this buzzword (and indeed buzzwords in general, the comment above was intending to make fun of HSBC IT for even failing at the buzzword game), but the notion of NewSQL was roughly to keep the relational model and consisten
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
My fear is that those IBM systems running Db2 or something were counted among the 65. While it seems obvious to us that they're better off without switching those, I know of several companies in financial services that should know bett
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
What's wild about this is that Mongo isn't even in fashion anymore! NoSQL has been supplanted by NewSQL, and relational dbs are in season again. Even if they were trying to follow the trend, they'd be a half-decade behind.
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
Jepsen's latest analysis of MongoDB -- https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6 -- finds that it doesn't even preserve snapshot isolation when set at the highest consistency level. This seems like a pretty te
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
It appears that the reddit r/programming mods removed the thread about this from the frontpage of their subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gwyeai/wechat_...
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
1) Consider taking a year off before you start to build things on your own -- I regret not doing this, and I don't know anyone who took a gap year and regretted it. If you've already gotten admitted, you can probably defer, especi
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No-Knock Warrant(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
If I understand this correctly, if you 1) did a Triplebyte assessment, and 2) didn't do especially well, it would be possible to figure this out from your profile from the lack of badges. This seems like the sort of information that p
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by sohamsankaran 6y ago
If anybody here knows Hiroshi Lockheimer (SVP platforms), please ping him about this.

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