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by srvmshr 4y ago
> My impression (as an outsider) is that these paper-pushing jobs are allowed to persist to keep people employed who would otherwise have nothing to do. It is more of bureaucratic inertia, extreme risk-averse mindset & accommodating
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I am a Japan resident. Except the Suica card featuring a notch (for helping as tactile aid to less-abled), I can assure you none of these are in widespread use (i.e. absolutely commonplace). For a fact, I am seeing some of these for the fir
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by srvmshr 4y ago
It is funny that you mention: I don't know the source of this, but a whole urban myth was going around in the heydays (India especially for sure) that Orkut Buyukkokten had envisaged a social network in the hopes that he could re-conne
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I have been fortunate to have had an excellent dentist in Japan. About a year ago, I was told by a dentist (in a larger clinic) I needed to have gold filling in my molars (because gold is least reactive, better than ceramic and gets the den
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by srvmshr 4y ago
My financial understanding is rudimentary but please correct me if wrong: Isn't gold eventually a tangible wealth (and currencies being linked to it) unlike crypto which is purely a digital construct. Gold is a rarer metal & histor
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Thank you for the kind words. But I don't seem to have good SWE knowhow. ML area is moving fast on rollers built by cloud enterprises, so I feel actual CS skills get overlooked by folks like us. I already graduated 2 yrs ago (Universit
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Thank you so so much! I guess #3-5 is what I need to work on. Let me go over a plan & if I still need some advice, I will shoot you an email. Thanks genuinely
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I feel an insane hesitation to try for/jump to FAANG. Its not about any ideological reasons: I just feel inadequate, even with a PhD. My research was on applied ML. I feel I haven't 'made the cut' with solving theory or
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All Ponzi schemes topple eventually(theguardian.com)
43 points by srvmshr 4y ago|53 comments
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by srvmshr 4y ago
It reminds me of the slightly funny incident when my brother's boss got stuck midway on the road to his destination, because his Fiskar Karma was having a firmware update
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by srvmshr 4y ago
The author is pretty wordy. But I don't find a genuine hard hitting line of criticism against Sheryl Sandberg. It mostly goes on as loosely connected ramblings - about her writing a B-school type book, to being pals with Goldman Sachs
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by srvmshr 4y ago
> Flandro calculated that the repeated gravity assists, as they are called, would cut the flight time between Earth and Neptune from 30 years to 12. There was just one catch: the alignment happened only once every 176 years. To reach th
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Fossil-fueled thermal power generation accounted for 71.7% of total electricity generated during the year [2021], down from 74.9% the previous year [2020]. Coal and LNG accounted for 26.5% and 31.7%, respectively, and both fossil fuels are
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Shinkansens run on electricity. Oil is mostly in the manufacturing and plastics industry, unlike other countries where domestic consumption is a significant share. (Tokyo power sector is mostly thermal and nuclear.)
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by srvmshr 4y ago
How about thinking that this will give them an opportunity for some mental relaxation as well? I live in Tokyo. The commutes are hour long one-way on average. Maybe it will give them more time & mental energy to explore other things.
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Thanks but no. The dismissive nature of your initial comment is irksome. As someone who has lived through a very similar phase, I would find your words encouraging but not very helpful personally. But then it is subjective. I meant every wo
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by srvmshr 4y ago
1. Just a suggestion: How about trying some mindfulness exercises? I realized I could focus better after 15-20 minutes of meditation. I am sure something similar might be available given how popular meditation is nowadays. You could try the
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Slightly OT: I remember seeing related trends with hotel bookings. Mac users tend to choose higher segment hotels (apparently): https://business.time.com/2012/06/26/orbitz-shows-higher-pri...
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Pretty simplistic yet effective, no-BS yardstick to measure the burnout effect. I was at burnout stage 4 & just recently spoke with my management to change focus. If they wouldn't have agreed, I might have quit.
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I liken the Stuxnet ops to be like if targetting Osama bin Laden with a sophisticated custom-made virus transmitted through his children. It delivers its payload once, and does very little collateral damage to others. The virus itself was s
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by srvmshr 4y ago
So is the RTC battery still a problem in modern computers?
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Slightly OT: But do modern computers have RTC? If not, how is time keeping done?
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Wise words. As someone working in ML, I feel this holds equally true for AI
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Charles Petzold's other book, The Annotated Turing is also a great read.
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Interesting. Would you mind talking offline (email in my bio). Would love to take some pointers
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by srvmshr 4y ago
The access comes with a cost and is pretty expensive unless covered by some academic grants. (Its about 10 grand USD). How expensive would Clickhouse be for data increasing about 1-2 TB per month? We are trying to optimize costs as the Twit
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Made me chuckle. There is a telltale template to how Quora answers are typically. One point of time, it used to be a great discussion platform. But the low quality answers & hi-quality gossip, overtly aggressive "Be nice" poli
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Ask HN: Working with Twitter Decahose
3 points by srvmshr 4y ago|0 comments
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Genuine question: We signed up for the deci/decahose last month and for now making everyday dumps of about 50GB in flat files. What kind of system architecture would be good to load & search through such dataset. We tried to explor
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by srvmshr 4y ago
As a small company working with Twitter firehose covering 10% of traffic just in Japan, we are clocking between 40-45GB of JSON data per day . (i.e about 1.5 TB per month)

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