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871karma·659submissions·March 14, 2017
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you can improve this be picking top 3 server with least connections and then pick one randomly from these 3 servers.
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This will never happen. For a long time I thought there is a an USP in treating data as toxic substance, but with the rise of LLMs I think data is the new oil. Company A that leverages data will outco…
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I've compiles a list from 2015 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1350A5KGgmGI3Ed-tC7MP... …
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Here is the data from 2015 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1350A5KGgmGI3Ed-tC7MP... Ratio Who wants to be hired?/Who is hiring? 2015 0,20 2016 0,21 2017 0,14 201…
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Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio Jan 2019,966,265,0.27 Feb 2019,847,197,0.23 Mar 2019,880,246,0.27 Apr 2019,881,324,0.36 May 2019,1020,286,0.28 Jun 2019,800,232,0.29 Jul 2019,907,…
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Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio Jan 2018,911,84,0.09 Feb 2018,1070,76,0.07 Mar 2018,1187,85,0.07 Apr 2018,1084,142,0.13 May 2018,1198,69,0.05 Jun 2018,911,90,0.09 Jul 2018,860,12…
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Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio Jan 2017,939,275,0.29 Feb 2017,1236,106,0.08 Mar 2017,1069,114,0.10 Apr 2017,956,163,0.17 May 2017,1096,236,0.21 Jun 2017,994,101,0.10 Jul 2017,98…
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Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio Jan 2016,471,110,0.23 Feb 2016,781,127,0.15 Mar 2016,825,202,0.24 Apr 2016,719,280,0.38 May 2016,983,166,0.16 Jun 2016,1007,248,0.24 Jul 2016,898,…
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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Date | Who is …
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in 2019 it was about 0.32 First who wants to be hired https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1350A5KGgmGI3Ed-tC7…
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Alternately, they could be forced to find a UK resident first, before hiring a foreigner. First, you make an ad with requirements that have 0 possible candidates. You wait a few weeks as a proof that …
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VW id2
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You probably won't want to use sequential IDs https://playground.play.ht/listen/1
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Should the action substitute cookiecutter? I see `src/{{cookiecutter.repository}}` after generation
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Pure propaganda, but it's really hard to estimate. At least with China you have some data. Chinese government would say there were 10.5 mln live births in 2021, but there were only 4.6 mln mandat…
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> might be impossible depending on work or children a dog it's even worse in this regard. I don't think any taxi will refuse a child.
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nope. royce rolls SMR, Toshiba. Pretty much everybody invests in it. There are others in US, but NuScale is the closest to a product.
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Quite often I rewrite the code from ``` return validate(get_response(value)) ``` or ``` value = get_response(value) value = validate(value) return value ``` into ``` res = get_response(value) new_res …
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Houses in US are made of wood because: - wood is cheap in US (historically was 10x cheaper) - there is a lot of land, plots are big, so you can fit everything in a single level - wood is better for ha…
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> So I’ve come to believe the best way to look at our Mars program is as a faith-based initiative All start to make sense when you look at it through geopolitics. Satellites have become one of the …
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> It really does cut time by 10s of percent. I used it for about a month. It gave me a few false positive that really burned me - it's not worth the risk. Maybe future versions would be better…
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Finland was not a mistake*, they needed a strategic depth for the white sea and the goal was achieved(the cost was high and the was the single goal from many). If Stalin wouldn't get that, he wou…
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> because he gets what he wants no politician gets what she/he wants. They can only go upwind. The structural forces - like strategic interests - are forcing the decisions on them. They can mo…
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> exceptional circumstances like potholes I would not call it exceptional.
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Source for the downvoters https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/single-line-nord-str... …
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"With the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines" They are not destroyed. There are 4 pipes in total and 1 pipe of NS2 is intact. Most likely Russia destroyed the other pipes to get NS2 wor…
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Argument for Russia: https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1574820287161384960 …
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There is Yamal, Brotherhood and Turk Stream - more than enough capacity. I don't think anyone is willing to buy more than 10% from Russian, ever. It's too risky. China is keeping it under 15…
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by deniability I mean that you cannot be sure if this is Russia, USA or someone else. If you use depth charges, they explode in certain way and leave some debris which say "this was XXX bomb so m…