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rankam··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
Same - their status page doesn't give me hope that this will be resolved any time soon.
rankam··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
Is anyone seeing improvement - their last message implying a capacity problem would suggest some are actions are running?
rankam··on Is GitHub Down?
Yes - experiencing issues with the site and github actions for the past ~10 minutes
rankam··on Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends
To me, it sounds like you need professional experience on your resume so that should be your goal. However, professional experience != a full time software engineer role. Can you find something really small that pays from a freelance site? Maybe it's just a python script that takes 4 hours and pays $10 - but with that you are a professional software engineer. Do you anyone who owns a website for a business? Ask them if you can do some really basic work for $1 - because if you do that, you're a professional software engineer.

Once you have some professional experience on your resume, it should get a little easier - it's still going to take some time and grit, but it should work out.

rankam··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
I have access to the model via the web client and it does show the thought process along the way. It shows a little icon that says things like "Examining parser logic", "Understanding data structures"...

However, once the answer is complete the chain of thought is lost

rankam··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
I do - I now have a "More models" option where I can select 01-preview
rankam··on C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
Does this mean that, theoretically, this could lead to the ability to build MacOS apps in higher languages that interoperate well with C such as Python? I know you can build MacOS apps with Python now, but does this potentially improve the experience?
rankam··on Show HN: Debut – a retro terminal PowerPoint clone
You should add screenshots/gifs so that people can see what it does
rankam··on Drogon – C++14/17-based rapid HTTP and web application framework
What is the use case for a C++ web framework? Would higher level languages/frameworks make use of this to do some of the heavy lifting? Would a company migrate to something like this once at scale? Or, are there just some people/companies who prefer to use C++?
rankam··on Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts
Ok I feel like an idiot, but where is the code in the repo that produces the GUI - ie where is the Suitcase code?
rankam··on R 4.0
Has the R core team publicly stated that they disagree with direction Wickham's Tidyverse is going? Genuinely asking as I love the Tidyverse, but would be interested to hear arguments against it.
rankam··on WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7
Based on what? Nothing points to a higher mortality rate - but some countries are admittedly not testing a lot. Even if you quadruple the estimated mortality rate, the UK numbers would still be under-represented.
rankam··on WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7
Or those places aren't testing? The UK has ~62,000 confirmed cases and ~7,100 deaths - that implies a > 10% mortality rate which is definitely not true. Why is the mortality rate so high? Because they only test those with severe symptoms - the actual number of cases is much higher than 62,000.
rankam··on Macy’s to Furlough 100k Employees
Sure, technically COBRA covers you, but have you have seen how much it costs? It is unaffordable for most. US healthcare is a joke.
rankam··on Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class
Online isn't the evening news or a 24 hour news station - I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. HN doesn't only moderate so that the "best" content makes it to the top, they also moderate (censor) certain topics - you don't see a lot about politics on HN because they don't want those subjects discussed on the HN platform.
rankam··on Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class
> Here's what a healthy online community has: respect for other members, maturity, empathy, self-awareness, strong moderation, and a diverse enough set of views from participants to make conversations well-rounded and thought provoking.

How do you know this? What data verifies that this is what a healthy online community looks like? Why is strong moderation part of a healthy online community, where strong moderation in a real life would be a signal of unhealthiness (it's censorship)? If an online community is mature, empathetic, and self-aware - why would it require strong moderation?

rankam··on Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets
Counterfeiting is creating something that is fake, but presenting as real. Counterfeiting has nothing to do with quantitative easing and you shouldn't conflate them.
rankam··on Show HN: Django Installer – Setup your Django project in one minute
What's the advantage of this over just using pip (other than this is has a GUI which I don't see as an advantage, but understand others might)? How do you handle updates to packages? I'm just really struggling to see why this would be useful.
rankam··on Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)
Just FYI Python is strongly typed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11328920/is-python-stron...
rankam··on Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2019) [pdf]
There's no other way to say this without sounding rude, but you weren't unable to learn R because you couldn't understand what a dataframe was - you were unable to learn R because you gave up. Blaming a data structure for the failure seems like a bit of a stretch.
rankam··on Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications
Got it - thanks!
rankam··on Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications
What does the next keyword do? I see it in examples, but couldn't find anything about in the docs (or maybe I overlooked it)
rankam··on Ask HN: How can I set up an ML model as a scalable API?
Maybe you could try to save the pre-trained model to a storage bucket (e.g. s3) and then use flask (or whatever framework you like) to create the endpoints. When the flask app starts, the model can be loaded into memory from the storage bucket, and then you could create, for example, a /predict endpoint that accepts whatever data is needed to make the prediction. Deploy this to some PaaS (Heroku, AWS EBS, GCP App Engine) that has auto-scaling as a feature and you're sorted.
rankam··on Importance of OKR Template and How to Create a Template via Excel
Misleading title
rankam··on Google to Acquire Looker
$2.6B
rankam··on Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
What if you are advertising to raise money/awareness for the poor/in-need? Is that unethical/immoral?
rankam··on Ask HN: What IDE should I use for plotting in Python?
Jupyter Notebooks are the de facto standard for scientific computing in Python.

http://jupyter.org/

rankam··on Survey results: How much would you pay for Facebook without ads?
The silent majority, really? They don't use it because the benefits outweigh the loss in privacy - they don't understand the impact of the loss in privacy.
rankam··on EdgeDB: A New Beginning
Why do you believe there should be a desire to distance oneself from a graph database? Graph databases are great when used correctly.
rankam··on Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release
Google created Golang and then created a tool to convert Python2 -> Go.

https://github.com/google/grumpy

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