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Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform(medium.com)
275 points by xpl 4y ago|91 comments
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by xpl 4y ago
> And I have no idea why people might want that If you can anticipate the market movements, you can profit from that (and vice versa). So maybe those investors have placed big bets on a recession but it isn't happening — and they
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by xpl 4y ago
> No, molecules are not sentient. Have you ever heard about panpsychism?
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by xpl 4y ago
Seems to work in both ways :) > Translate the following text to marketing speak (add loads of bullshit): ... > "Introducing Bullshit.js - the revolutionary new JavaScript bookmarklet that's changing the game when it comes
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by xpl 4y ago
It is still done on GPU, you just don't use its builtin triangle rasterizer and do the rasterization yourself using "compute shaders" (programs that run on GPU). It doesn't mean they use CPU for rasterization.
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by xpl 4y ago
P.S. Also, I could give my speculations on the possible reasons behind lacking support for Ukraine from some of the Western politicians: 1. They get scared that Russia (in case of losing the war) gets pissed off and launches nukes all aroun
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by xpl 4y ago
If you watch what they say, they don't say "Ukraine must win" (except for some Eastern European politicians maybe), they rather say "We cannot let Russia win" . It is not the same. They cannot even admit that Ukr
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by xpl 4y ago
It's just what Putin wants it to be... There is no reason Ukraine can't push Russians back except the willingness of the West to supply Ukraine with heavy artillery, SAM systems, tanks and fighter jets — it's the only limitin
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by xpl 4y ago
> Nationalization of companies rarely works well It does not need to "go well". All the government needs is control. They have VK (controlled by Putin's people). They will be happy with either outcome with Yandex — kill
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by xpl 4y ago
> Russia can't sustain waging wars if they don't have an economy and disgruntled population. Russia can wage wars on natural resource selling alone, it only needs to keep the gas and oil flowing through the infrastructure. Al
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by xpl 4y ago
> Cancelling Yandex completely, as in forcing it to collapse, would help a lot. It's just a wishful thinking. It wont "collapse", it would just become controlled by government, and then it truly becomes the instrument
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by xpl 4y ago
The Russian army is not sponsored by Yandex. The money comes from selling natural resources... and mostly to Europe, surprise. It's about $1 billion per day. Tax money from private companies is nothing compared to that. So Europe is sp
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by xpl 4y ago
> Yandex pays tens/hundreds of millions in taxes and thus finances the war. So what? You shut down the business with 20k employees, on the grounds that you do not agree with local regulations or because the government did bad? Tha
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by xpl 4y ago
> without repercussions That comes from where? The repercussions could have been very severe. The Russian government easily takes over and seizes control over "rogue companies". Russia is not a free country, my friend.
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by xpl 4y ago
> Yandex Search engine hides the pictures of Bucha and Irpin massacre as well as Kharkiv and Mariupol destruction That's just not true, try it yourself. It just does not display the latest images by default (though it's eas
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by xpl 4y ago
Not fair. The guy in fact did a great job by NOT letting the Russian government nationalize Yandex (and they considered to do it), so it is up to this day a company with no govt. involvement — which is almost impossible for a business of th
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by xpl 5y ago
Yeah, properly benchmarking JS code is hard because of how complex is the V8's optimizing compiler infrastructure. I once made an online tool for measuring run times of JS code, with [hopefully, lol] proper warmup and protection agains
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by xpl 5y ago
Kurzgesagt has a video on this ("What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs
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by xpl 5y ago
I think you might have confused it with "West of Eden" by Harry Harrison? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden
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by xpl 6y ago
> how can arbitrageurs afford to stay in business Most arbitrageurs cannot stay in the business, it's the law of diminishing returns. Economies of scale eventually prevent small individual players to profit from the market, only a f
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A Coding Interview with GPT-3: Could a Newest AI Get a Job at Google?(medium.com)
2 points by xpl 6y ago|0 comments
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A Free Cryptocurrency Trading Library That Supports 60+ Exchanges(github.com)
24 points by xpl 9y ago|13 comments
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by xpl 10y ago
This is awful. How did they come up with that?.. Reminds me of pre-Web2.0 internet.
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by xpl 11y ago
Updated readme with some examples.
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Useless.js: a new cross-platform toolbox for writing complex web applications(github.com)
2 points by xpl 11y ago|1 comments
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Yet another Conway's Life in WebGL(xpl.github.com)
2 points by xpl 14y ago|0 comments